Rebecca Thorman is 24 years old. I met her when I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and spoke at an event she put together. I've been reading her blog, Modite, ever since.
By Rebecca Thorman – As the workplace weather changes, Generation X isn't happy to see Generation Y as the rainbow in their persistent rainstorm.
Both [...]

1. Voice mail
It will come as news to most people over thirty that most people under thirty do not leave voice mail messages. Think about it: Voice mail takes a long time to retrieve and it's almost never earth-shattering, so it's not worth the time it requires. Microsoft is such a big believer in [...]

It's fun to be a superstar. You get a lot of accolades. But the real benefit to being a workplace superstar is that you have more control over your life. A superstar gets flextime. A superstar gets to take a five-month sabbatical and have their job held for them. Superstars are so top-flight that they'd [...]

Office politics is good for you. That is, it makes your life better — not just your work life, but your whole life.
Office politics is a commitment to quality — in your relationships and in your projects. So you need to see it as the glorious underpinning of a transparent workplace in which everyone helps one [...]

I am always harping on how important it is to be nice. I have written about how you will be happy at work if you have three friends there, you will get promoted if people like you and you should try to be more likable no matter how likable you think you are right now.
A [...]

There's a new workplace etiquette for the new millennium, and, no surprise, it's all about transparency and authenticity.
The new etiquette is driven by the fact that young people who grew up online don't know how to operate any other way except transparently. The good news is this means they have great social skills; the bad [...]

After a week of posts about generational conflict, you'll be happy to hear that Alexandra Levit is a professional bridge builder (and blogger at Water Cooler Wisdom). Leaders in the Fortune 500 call her when they can't cope with young people anymore. She teaches people how to stop annoying each other by gaining a better understanding of generational differences.
Deloitte has a [...]

What's the point of baby boomers complaining about Generation Y at work? First of all, it's a cliché, because people over 40 have been complaining about "young people" since forever.
Even worse, it's a losing battle. Generation Y is huge. It's one thing for boomers to verbally squash Generation X — that was no problem. Gen [...]

By Ryan Healy – People often ask why I decided to get into this whole career blogging world that I have come to love. Usually my answer is something about giving my generation a voice in the corporate discussion, or standing up for all of my peers and friends who openly discuss their bitterness towards [...]

Some of you might know that the thousands of comments that I receive on my Yahoo column are generally abrasive. Here's an example.
Some of the most common things people say to me in the comment section on Yahoo are:
1. Why do you write for Yahoo? You should be fired!
2. You don't have enough experience in [...]

At some point in our lives we each have felt surrounded by people who see the world incorrectly. Sometimes it's the accountant who works for a management team that doesn't understand numbers. Or it's the artist who works for a marketing team that doesn't understand font. Sometimes we feel so certain that we are right and [...]

If you want to know how old you really are, look at the media you use rather than the generation you were born into.
Generational labels are important in the discussion of the changing workforce. For example, we need to understand who is pushing for change and who is criticizing change in order to understand [...]

By Ryan Healy — If there is an overarching impact my generation is already having on the corporate world, it is entrepreneurship. Roughly 80% of my friends and acquaintances plan to start their own business at some point. Both males and females, college grads and current students, everyone wants to run their own [...]

Have you read Bob Sutton's book The No Asshole Rule? It's a great book because it is the harbinger of two trends that I care a lot about.
First, this book is the first business book we can definitively say that the bloggers made a bestseller. Offline bookstores wouldn't carry it because of the A word. [...]

This is not actually the headline of the column at Yahoo. But I feel like it should be. And what else is a blog for but writing the world the way it should be?
Here are my favorites from the list of ten ways to make people not like you at work:
• Using sarcasm as a defense [...]

My book, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, is available now!
Here is tip #37 from the book: A Long List of Ways to Dodge Long Hours
It's hard to leave the office at a reasonable time of day when your workplace culture centers on long hours. But the cost of not leaving work is high: a [...]

A few months after I graduated from college, I got a job at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. I thought it was the perfect job for me because I was very focused on playing professional beach volleyball, and I needed to earn money to get myself to Los Angeles, but I couldn't work 9-5 because then [...]

My book, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, is shipping from Amazon!
Here is tip #21 from the book: Mud Slinging Means You're Losing Ground
If you want people to like you, give them compliments. I know, that sounds like I'm telling you to brownnose. Instead, I'm telling you to find genuine ways to compliment people, which [...]

By Will Schwalbe – Many people who are nice in person do things with their emails that they wouldn't think of doing face to face. Here are five ways to make sure this doesn't happen to you.
1. Remember chain of command.
When you email people several rungs above or below you and forget to cc: one or [...]

My book, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, is shipping from Amazon!
Buy it there now. Or buy the book in local book stores starting on May 25.
Here is tip #26 from the book:
Leverage Your Core Competencies by Off-Loading Jargon
Don't use jargon. I know you've heard this rule before, but maybe no one has [...]