It’s tax time, and every year I think to myself that I should be deducting everything. Really. All my income comes from freelance writing, and since there’s almost nothing in my life that I don’t write about, maybe I can deduct everything. After years of thinking I should do this but not really doing it, […]
A couple of months ago, two people sent me the same thing: A womens’ magazine was looking to interview a woman who was doing a good job balancing kids and a freelance career. “You should respond to this!” said one of the emailers. “This will be great publicity for your book!” said the other emailer. […]
Bruce Tulgan tells the four reasons you have to fire a low performer, and the best way to get low performers to leave on their own. [MEDIA=6] (requires the Flash 9 Player) iPod Video – Download
A lot of people ask me how living in Madison is going. For those of you who don’t know, I moved from New York City to Madison, WI about six months ago. I can’t believe it’s already been six months, because I still feel like I’m in culture shock. It is shocking, for example, that […]
It used to be that finding a good paying career was the path to adult-life stability. Those days are over. What we think of as stability has to change, and how we get to that stability has to change. Here’s a summary of the new employee of today’s workplace: Most will change jobs every two […]
My friend Dylan sent me a warning that poetry can ruin your career. But before I knew that, when I was a blogging beginner with no idea what to post, I posted workplace Haikus. And my career was not ruined. So here’s another poem, from my friend Ben: Employed She just wants to be employed […]
The first summer job idea is you better get one. If you are in college, now is the time to gather experience so that you will have some idea what you want to do with your life when you get out of school. Graduating from college is a very hard transition. One way you can […]
When you look for a job or change careers, what you’re really looking for is a way to improve things in your life. But it’s hard to figure out what will really make things better and what will only make things worse. There are some things we all know: People who are in love are […]
When I was a new manager, one of the steepest learning curves I had was how to adapt my communication style for the various groups I interfaced with: Technical, creative, executive. Fortunately, I had learned from my days as an arbitrage clerk that each group of workers requires a specific type of communication, so I […]
Bruce Tulgan runs through 8 things in 2 minutes — tactics that will make you feel confident and effective as a manager. [MEDIA=7] (requires the Flash 9 Player) iPod Video – Download