One last minute task My job description expands Paycheck still itty-bitty I am a writer I planned to be a princess It did not work out. – From That Girl Who Writes Stuff via Monster Blog
Here’s a new word for the workplace: Rankism. File it in your brain next to racism and sexism. And brace yourself for a big change at the office, because rankism is another kind of discrimination we should not tolerate. What’s rankism, or rankist behavior? It is hiring an intern and ignoring her all summer. Or […]
I interview two or three people a week for the various columns that I write. One thing I have learned from this is that people can tell you the major ideas they have in about twenty minutes. After twenty minutes you end up getting into the details of the ideas — probably more than you […]
How much money buys happiness? A wide body of research suggests the number is approximately forty thousand dollars a year. I interviewed Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, and he says once you have enough money to meet basic needs — food, shelter, but not necessarily cable “?incremental increases have little effect on your […]
Yesterday traffic to my blog doubled. On top of the usual load of about 350 visitors, I had 350 investment bankers: At 1pm Dealbreaker posted a link to my guest rant, and in the next hour alone, 100 people came. No joke. Of course, my traffic statistics were endlessly interesting to me throughout all this. […]
John Annabel, of Northampton, walked into the office one day to find himself working side by side with a new employee whose only qualification seemed to be that she was having an affair with Annabel's department head. Annabel says people didn't particularly care that she was in the office doing no work until she started […]
Here is one of hundreds of reasons senior investment bankers make life for analysts worse than it already is: Voicemail. First of all, no one under thirty uses voicemail unless they are making a joke. If you make a call and the person does not pick up their phone, send an email. That’s why they […]
Of all the Google searches that end up at my blog, the most common is some version of, “How do I tell my boss that I’m quitting.” This seems to be a frequent topic at a lot of career sites; quitting well is a big issue. A lot of the problems around quitting come from […]
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 […]
Here’s a collection of interesting ideas from people who are talking about the value of business school: 1. Business school is not an effective means to self-discovery. Most business school applications require that you tell what you’re going to do with the MBA. This is because most business schools think it is a waste to […]