Take a look at my Yahoo! Finance column for this week: 239 people rated it an average of two stars out of five. Which is an improvement, because yesterday the average was one star. Also, there are 94 comments, which can be fairly represented by the one that I copy and paste here:
"I think this [...]
Browsing category "Learn to take advice"Pay attention to your critics — at least some of them
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management
February 2nd, 2007
4 tips for being your own career coach
Posted to: Interviewing | Learn to take advice
January 26th, 2007
Giving advice about careers is easier than taking it. People are always calling me on this — spitting my advice back to me at my most vulnerable moments. Like when I was late delivering my column five weeks in a row, and my editor said, "Remember that time you wrote about how being late is [...] Three more ways to think about career happiness
August 22nd, 2006
If you ask most people if they like their jobs, they'll say yes. Alan Kreuger — scintillating economics professor at Princeton, whom I interviewed this morning — says that this is not because people have jobs they like, but because people have cognitive dissonance and are hard-programmed to like what they have. Jack Welch needs to play more golf
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August 18th, 2006
A book I've really liked recently was Will You Please Just F*ck Off, It's Our Turn Now: Holding Baby Boomers to Account, by Ryan Heath. It's about how baby boomers won't admit when their ideas are old. I'm moving out of New York City
August 10th, 2006
It used to be that people moved to where their job was. But where you live has a lot of impact on how happy you are. So it makes sense that today people pick a city first and then find a job, and cities maven Wendy Waters thinks this trend will increase. I will be [...] A messy desk undermines your career
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Managing Up | Office Politics | Promoting Yourself | Self-management
August 1st, 2006
You can judge someone's personality by what his or her work space looks like. Take Tara Hirshfeld, for example. She's set up her office on a picnic table. She has the laptop, the headset, even the office-type snacks. But there are leaves falling and cars honking. Intuitively, you know she's not an accountant-type. And you [...] How to find happiness: Listen to scientists who study it
Posted to: Finding a career | Fulfillment | Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice | Money | Self-management
July 18th, 2006
We spend so much energy trying to decide what career will make us happy, what job to take, what kind of boss we need. But today happiness is actually a science, and we can teach ourselves to make better decisions faster based on what we know about happiness. Training is essential, so make sure it's a perk you receive
June 19th, 2006
The new workplace currency is training. Title is not important if you're not staying long term. And salary increases of three or four percent are ceremonial. So use the clout you earn to get training; it will make a difference in your life in a way that salary and title cannot because training can fundamentally [...] Howard Stern's lesson in customer loyalty
June 16th, 2006
Howard Stern has lost most of his audience. I'm not a big fan of his. I like public discussion of sex that is more interesting and productive than Howard offers. But I'm not above learning from him, and how can you not learn a lesson or two from a guy who has lost almost 11 [...] First post
Posted to: How to blog | Learn to take advice
April 11th, 2006
Here is my first post to my blog. About two years too late. You need an entourage
Posted to: Goal setting | Learn to take advice | Parenting | Promoting Yourself | Self-management | Time management
September 23rd, 2005
Anyone who owns a small business knows that if you don’t reinvest in the business, the business dies. So why do so many people fail to reinvest in themselves? Even if you work for someone else, you are running a small business: The business of you. You provide a product and you have to market [...] 6 most violated resume writing rules
September 12th, 2005
Five most violated resume-writing rules This advice applies to you
June 13th, 2005
My brother Erik told me, "When I read one of your headlines that isn't about me, I don't read the column." The new generation gap: Xers and Ys
May 21st, 2005
In the olden days, ten years ago, when I was a dot-com upstart displacing workers twice my age, I could hear people grumble about the workplace behavior of Generation X: We demanded foosball tables, non-hierarchical structure, tons of authority and exciting projects. In exchange, we worked extremely hard and fast, played well in teams, and [...] List of things I hate
March 21st, 2005
Here is my second annual list of things I hate. However, it seems to have morphed into a list of types of people I hate. But this seems fair; no one’s animosity should be limited to inanimate objects. 7 steps to finding and keeping a mentor
November 9th, 2004
Those who have mentors are twice as likely to be promoted as those who don't, says Ellen Fagenson Eland, professor at George Mason University and 2003 Winner of the Mentoring Best Practices Award. So start taking the mentoring process very seriously — it should be a cornerstone of your overall career strategy. Here’s a plan [...] 6 ways to improve your writing
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September 20th, 2004
Almost one-third of workers do not meet the writing requirements of their positions, according to a survey by the College Board's National Commission on Writing. You only need $40,000 to be happy
August 1st, 2004
Looking for happiness through financial success? Wondering what the magic number is? It’s $40,000 according to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert. Really. So technically, most of you should be happy. And if you’re working for the next big raise, forget it. You’re better off working on teaching yourself how to look at your money with a [...] What I learned from communication coaching
June 19th, 2004
My cousin had a karaoke party. I had to go because he's my cousin, but I refused to sing because this would have pained the audience even more than it would have pained me. A woman at the party, however, impressed me by engaging the crowd even though she had no apparent singing talent. It [...] List of things I hate
September 10th, 2003
Here is my current list of things I hate. It’s an on-going project that simmers week after week until it reaches boiling point and I have to spend a column venting. |
USA Today features me & the farmer and our failed prenup. http://bit.ly/9wN4RI The article stresses out the farmer. He feeds it to the pigs. 3 days ago
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