Mid-life career strategy calls for sensitivity to stereotypes about aging. One stereotype is that we take longer to learn and resist learning new things.
A recent New York Times article supports a theory I’ve held for years. As we get older, our brain holds more and more data. So we just have more to process. […]

I finally got around to reading How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill.
You can read my review on amazon if you click here.
Mostly I felt this book could inspire a lot of discussion.
Was Gill’s experience typical? Are most Starbucks managers as charismatic and competent as Crystal, the manager who hired him?
Which of the […]

Penelope Trunk, best-selling author of The Brazen Careerist, offers 10 tips for the “new etiquette.” You can read them here
She drew a great deal of controversy - over 900 comments, mostly negative.
Some of these tips, with my comments:
“Forget the exit interview.”
She points out that an exit interview won’t help you but probably creates ill […]