Ashley is a smart, hardworking lawyer. She works for a big international company, but the nature of her job is causing her to work alone most of the time. She has a set of responsibilities that only she can fulfill… Read More ›
Career
How To Negotiate Like A Pro: Understand Your Opponent
In the first article of the series, I talked about what things you need to do to enter the negotiation and be successful. Now let’s talk about the importance of understanding the person you are negotiating with. You know what… Read More ›
Why “Fake It Till You Make It” Is A Bad Strategy
“Fake it till you make it” is advice that is being circulated by career advisors for years or even decades. The idea is that you should never be afraid to jump on an opportunity and get to a role that… Read More ›
Work-life Balance Is Not A Thing, This Is
The common wisdom goes that you have life and then you have work. Work leads to exhaustion, anxieties, depression, and you work only to get money so you can have life. That is why so many people talk about work-life… Read More ›
Why To Stop Exploiting Internships
Internship is a great way to build relationships with potential future employees entering the labor market. There are obvious benefits for the company in the form of getting some junior people to help out with the workload while incurring relatively… Read More ›
Why Your Leadership Development Model Doesn’t Work
Depending on the source, leadership development is a $14 billion, $24 billion, or even $50 billion market in the US alone. And yet it is difficult to find the return on the investment. Companies are not performing significantly better, and… Read More ›
Can’t Work Together? Just Talk It Through
We all need to communicate. The whole life is a series of interactions with other people, and unless you live a life of Robinson Crusoe, you are required to interact with other people. When there is an interaction, there is… Read More ›
If You Want It, Act Like You Mean It
“I’m really unlucky. I’ve got my third job in as many years, and I can’t seem to find one that would suit me. And I have terrible luck with managers. Most of them are jerks.” This is how one of… Read More ›
Why To Recruit From Within
The economy is doing great. Most of the countries have record low unemployment rates. Companies fight over the best and the brightest. As I described in How To Win The War For Talent, there is only one way to win… Read More ›
Become Gritty To Succeed In Life
People accomplish more when they don’t rely on innate talent but rather on hard work, passion, and perseverance. Many of us are sort of satisfied being dissatisfied. Rather than keep pushing to become the best we can, we accept that… Read More ›
The Geeky Leader 