Don't get in a position later in life to say: "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." [Marlon Brando in the Waterfront.] Make smart decisions and advance in your career.
Brainstorming As A Group Not Effective
Thu Sep 2, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
A new study “Idea generation and the quality of the best idea” from Wharton School of Management suggests that group thinking is detrimental to a company’s health in terms of new ideas. Traditionally, companies have encouraged group brainstorming. Some have sent managers and senior employees to resort areas to think collectively and come up with … Continue Reading »
Don’t Work For Your Boss – Work For Yourself And The Company
Fri Jul 30, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
The time has come that we put a stop to the age old mentality that, when hired, employees must work for their boss first and the company later. The direct subordination of the rank and file and even professionals has been imposed upon them from day one at the place of work. When we talk … Continue Reading »
The More Money Bosses Make, The Meaner They Become
Tue Jul 20, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
One of two surveys shows that the higher the executives climb up the corporate ladder and the more money they make, the meaner they become in their attitude towards their subordinates, especially the so-called rank and file workers. The other survey compares the boss’s meanness with that of, none other than, a psychopath who has … Continue Reading »
Tips How Not To Act Like An A**Hole
Thu Jul 1, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
It’s a difficult subject and no one likes to talk about it. But You must have heard yourself or others saying something like “What an asshole!” At one time or another, some of us who are over 50 years old have seen employees advance in their career who openly act like an asshole. They have … Continue Reading »
Business Degree Goes Well With Technical Expertise
Sat May 8, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
Business education not only goes well with technical expertise, but with other fields as well. If you have worked in a technical field for sometime and that’s all you have done, then maybe it’s time you thought about having some business background as well. The best and easiest way to go about is to ask … Continue Reading »
Tips From Xerox New CEO Ursula M. Burns To Employees
Tue Mar 23, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
Ursula M. Burns, who became the new CEO of the 130,000 employees Xerox company in July 2009, have a few words to rank and file as well as managers at all levels. She is the first African-American woman to head a major corporation. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman – Ms. … Continue Reading »
19 Steps To Screwing Up Your Career
Tue Feb 16, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
Sital Ruparelia has an article on his career management blog. The title of the article is 19 Steps To Screwing Up Your Career. That’s good and dandy. All steps he mentioned are good steps to avoid. However, I think he missed the biggest step to screw up your career and that is to keep working … Continue Reading »
7 Tips to enhance your career in the new year
Tue Feb 2, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
In this post we talk about enhancing your career. I very seldom make new-year resolutions whether they may be about losing weight, eating right, or exercising more. To fulfill these resolutions is as important as making them. The reason being that we must all remind ourselves what we have to do to better our life … Continue Reading »
To get ahead at work, try annoying coworkers
Thu Jan 28, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
You must have known folks at your place of work who will annoy others without even trying. It’s their second nature [I don't know what their first nature would be.] Now it’s your turn to annoy others. You have been cooped up in that cubicle of yours for long now. Living as an introvert is … Continue Reading »
3 Tips to get ahead in your career for the long haul
Wed Jan 27, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Advance
I have been writing about advancing in your career for some time now. And the reason I have given it so much importance is two-fold. One because of the huge layoff we have experienced the last couple of years and second folks who have jobs must work harder and smarter to keep their jobs. Today … Continue Reading »
