The last time I wrote about losing weight was right after I had a baby and my agent told me that I would kill my career if I went on speaking engagements. "You look terrible" is what she told me. And I lost forty pounds in two months.
This time, things were not so dramatic. [...]

Time magazine just hired me to write a piece about workplace trends among young people. One of the things I wrote about was how much people value the opportunity to volunteer for non-profit organizations through their company. And one of the best examples of this is Salesforce.com.
So I called the publicist there and set up [...]

I just spent two days at TAI Resources getting speaking coaching. I was pissy about it the whole week before. I decided I didn't have time to go. I mean, two full days away from the kids costs about ten thousand dollars when you add up the babysitter and the Happy Meals and the ten [...]

Exercise is an essential part of a successful career. It's an essential part of a good life. I think one problem a lot of us face is that we approach exercise like it's a choice.
When email first became widely used, I worked for a guy who thought it was optional. At some point, it truly [...]

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 #25 from the book: Don't Use Adverbs
If you want people to pay attention to what you have to say, write short. This is true in all [...]

By Ryan Healy — College taught me the true meaning of independence. I attended classes when I chose, I studied at my convenience, I partied at my leisure and I relaxed when I needed to relax. You would assume that since I am now an "adult," I would at least have this same [...]

Today, people in their 20s change jobs every two years. This frustrates employers, who say, "Why should I hire someone who is going to leave? I need someone who is loyal."
At the same time, employees look at the work they are given and say, "How can I spend my days doing work that doesn't mean [...]

The best way to be happier at work is to take personal responsibility for your workplace well-being. Once you do that, any job can be better than it is right now.
Here are four ways you can improve your job yourself instead of relying on your boss or your company to change:
1. Make a friend at [...]

One of the most important career moves of the new millennium is getting out of paying dues. Paying one's due is an antiquated idea in a workplace where few people aspire to climb the same corporate ladder for 45 years.
Eve Tahmincioglu interviewed 55 leaders for her book, From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons [...]

Here's a fascinating piece about an Amazon tribe that has no ability to use numbers. Even when the tribe members asked anthropologists to teach counting, the tribesmen couldn't learn. The tribe is good at other things — fishing and making jokes, for instance — but not counting.
This immediately reminded me of couples therapy with my [...]

Today people talk very loudly about how they want a job that lets them have a life outside of work. That's smart, of course, because there's a long list of scientifically proven benefits to your health and happiness that friendship brings. And this includes the findings of Gallup pollster Tim Rath that you are almost guaranteed [...]

Does this courtship sound familiar to you?
"We used Instant messenger a lot. But sometimes you just want to get away from your computer, so then we'd text. But fighting while you text is so tedious you may as well just get back on IM."
This description is from Sandra Proulx, who maintained a long-distance relationship with [...]

Emotional intelligence. This is how you will differentiate yourself at work in the new millennieum.
We can see the world shifting around us in response to the fact that tolerance for poor social skills is getting less and less. The need to fit in with a group on some level, is getting higher and higher, and the tendency [...]

It used to be your workplace identity was tied to your company. "An IBM man" is a phrase that comes to mind. Companies kept track of best practices, hot management ideas, and recent innovations in the business world.
Today our identity is separate from our company. We manage ourselves with the care that used to be [...]

I just want to tell you about these links. Each of them made me really happy to find. Maybe one, or all four, will make you happy:
1. How to ruin your image with your signature file.
This is a great post about the stupid fonts people use in their signature file and what those fonts mean [...]

Chances are half of your colleagues at work are desperate for a nap. Many adults don't get enough sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the problem particularly "acute" among younger workers: one in three struggle to get out of bed each morning.
What's keeping them up at night? Not work worries. Marie Gagnon, 24, is [...]

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 [...]

The need to have regular human moments at work is similar to the need to stand up and stretch on an airplane: Your well-being depends on it. On top of that, a workday with regular face-to-face contact is more energizing than a day full of contacts exclusively via computer and phone.
So get out from behind your [...]

 Most people change jobs every two years, and, guess what? It's a good thing to do for your career.
The Bureau of Labor reports that people in their 20s change jobs every 18 months, and CareerJournal reports that 75 percent of all workers are job hunting. All this change has been scoffed at by people who say [...]

When I was in couples therapy with my husband, I nearly died trying to force myself to listen to his ideas when I thought mine were better. But I realized that I had poor listening skills, and by dealing with my listening skills at home, I improved my listening skills at work.
We can learn how to [...]