People with good social skills can get along with almost anyone, and if you want to be successful in your career, you have to make people like you: Figure out what matters to them, what makes them tick, and then speak to that when you interact.
The key to being likeable is to be able to [...]
Browsing category "Management"How to get along with difficult co-workers
June 26th, 2006
Think about workplace diversity in terms of experience
May 26th, 2006
Just about every major business publication has run something about how diversity improves business performance. If you are on a diverse team, you'll probably have more success than if you're on a homogenous team. And, to some extent, we can each control the teams we're on. Learn to be a leader in tolerance
May 13th, 2006
Here's a piece in the Boston Globe about learning how to react constructively when someone makes offensive comments at work. In fact, the majority of people, it appears, will say nothing, even though a comment offends their sensibilities. Managing generation Y (How to manage my brother)
January 9th, 2006
I realized that managing Genertion Y requires a huge shift in thinking when I was giving career advice to my twenty-three year-old brother, Erik. He is a top recruit at a top investment-banking firm and he just got a promotion ahead of everyone else in his year. Managing during labor
June 16th, 2005
I had my baby last week. I’m tired. But not too tired to recognize management issues during labor. There were three management styles among the people who were in the delivery room: 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." 4 worst mistakes of a first-time manager
Posted to: Leadership | Management | Managing Up | Mentoring | Promoting Yourself | Self-management | Starting a new job | Time management
June 3rd, 2005
First-time managers are generally nightmares to work for. They are people who got promoted by doing a non-management job well, and in fact they probably have little experience in management. Here are four of the mistakes that will undermine a new manager the fastest. Make a plan to manage your success
January 30th, 2005
I got a book deal. So this is, undoubtedly, the first of at least a hundred columns that will plug the book, which is not coming out until spring 2006. Far away, yes, but not too far for you to make a note in your planner: "Buy Penelope's book." 5 overlooked rules of management
Posted to: Diversity | Fulfillment | Goal setting | Leadership | Management | Managing Up | Office Politics | Promoting Yourself
November 20th, 2004
All managers have one, shared goal: Get a promotion. But many times, the job of a manger is so multifaceted and detail-laden that the manager loses site of that big picture. Here are five jobs of a manager that are often lost in the muddle of managing smaller, day-to-day issues. You need a personal assistant
July 1st, 2004
Your to do list is dragging you down. Why do tasks that do not inherently enhance the quality of your life when you could pay someone $10 and hour to do them? I learned this when my boss and I had our new computers set up at our homes. I stayed at home all day [...] Don't hold a meeting without an agenda
April 22nd, 2004
A meeting is a like a party. If you don’t plan it carefully you'll look incompetent and end up embarrassed. Forethought is necessary. You wouldn’t invite three ex-boyfriends to a game of Twister with your mom, and you wouldn’t plan a costume party without letting people know the theme in advance. While you might not [...] Advice for starting your own business
Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Finding a career | Fulfillment | Knowing yourself | Leadership | Management
December 29th, 2003
Feeling stuck? Uninspired? As though your New Year’s resolutions have no spark? Maybe it’s time to start your own business. It's likely you intuitively know if you’re actually an entrepreneur stuffed in a corporate cubicle. The entrepreneurship bug isn't something that hits in middle age. It's something that’s inside you from day one – a [...] How to fire a relative
Posted to: Management
November 12th, 2003
Learning to be a good manager requires that you perform a wide range of tasks from delegating, to coaching, to planning. When none of these go well, you need to perform the final task: Firing. Letting someone go is very difficult for most people – our instinct is to want to help people, or at [...] Couples therapy can help your career
October 5th, 2003
Couples therapy: My husband is slumped at the edge of the sofa, sulking. I sit in the center cushion, upright and animated, ranting about why he needs to get rid of his bike. 4 ways to make more time
July 12th, 2003
Success in the workplace depends on being a good time manager, because it doesn’t matter how good you are at your job if you never have time to do it. Here are the four most important steps you can take to end that feeling that you “can’t get everything done". The best way to break rules
June 1st, 2003
The current business climate encourages rule breakers. Not the kind at Enron – those are law breakers. Rule breakers break with convention. Sallie Krawcheck, for example, was a top stock analyst in the 90s. She could have gone to a big investment firm where the heavy-hitters gave stock advice that, in hindsight, seems to have [...] Lessons learned from SARS
Posted to: Management
May 9th, 2003
Good decision-makers are good information-gatherers, but in the end, they trust their gut. Landing a job later in life
Posted to: Diversity | Management
February 3rd, 2003
I get a lot of email from people who are 50 years old and older and never expected to be unemployed at this stage in their career. Many of these people are annoyed that they are not appreciated for how much they know. Others are bitter, angry or indignant. Often times, these complaints come down [...] How to give a good performance review
Posted to: Goal setting | Management
February 14th, 2002
Here’s the worst performance review I ever received: “You were great." The review was via email, and when I commented on its brevity, my boss said the “outrageous Internet salary" he gave me was testament to how much he wanted to keep me. |
You can't be a debt snob and be entrepreneurial. Almost all startups are founded on credit cards or money from parents. http://bit.ly/d3Hruw 10 hrs ago
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