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Conquering E-mail overload in the corporate environment
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 […]
The Promotion – The Movie
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. Despite […]
Defying stereotypes of academic careers and West Point cadets
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 […]
A Job Search Indie Film to Watch (and Watch For)
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 […]
MBA course on leadership values draws attention
Stewart Friedman, a professor at the Wharton School teaches a popular course on aligning personal core values with corporate careers. According to the New York Times article, the course is somewhat like a life coaching session. Before registering (the course is elective, not required), students must agree to share details of their personal lives and […]