Writing for the New York Times, Luis Suarez tells us he conquered email overload by using social marketing tools like wikis and blogs. For example, if he gets the same question over and over, he justs blogs or posts on the corporate equivalent of Facebook.
What the article doesn’t tell us: Suarez seems to have […]

I don’t see many movies these days, but I had to go see The Promotion, billed as a satiric comedy about the contemporary workplace.
I went with a friend who’s been out of the corporate world awhile, as well as her college-age son — a movie buff and will go see just about anything. […]

Elizabeth Samet holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale, all in English literature. So she’s hardly the type you’d expect to find teaching cadets at West Point.
But Samet accepted a position there in 1996, to the surprise (and, I suspect, consternation) of her academic colleagues. She found surprising rewards and revelations, […]

While Facebook has become the stomping ground for solo-preneurs and social young people, LinkedIn remains strictly for business. Read a recent New York Times article about LinkedIn.
The Times article alludes to the edgy balance you have to maintain these days as a corporate executive. On the one hand, these days you’re really working for yourself. […]

Ok, I admit it. I like movies about careers and I like indie films. My all-time favorite career movie is Clockwatchers featuring Parker Posey and Toni Collette.
So when our local alternate indie festival — STIFF - announced screening of a new movie, Entry Level, I had to go.
Entry Level is the first feature film for […]

I just came across an article on Yahoo Careers: The Big Question: Why Should I Hire You?
Author Joe Turner argues that this interview question separates the contenders from the also-rans. That’s why managers like to ask it.
Regardless of whether you actually face this question, I think it’s good to start thinking in those terms whether […]

Marci Alboher blogged about this question recently for a New York Times article. She describes a woman, Lisa Sherman, a VP-Marketing for Bell Atlantic.
Sherman attended a diversity meeting with her colleagues — one of those where everyone is invited to list stereotypes of African-Americans, Jews, Catholics, women, gay men and lesbians. Sherman had never […]