Posts by Carol Ross
Smart Women
Two recent events featuring smart women and careers: Marci Alboher points us to a panel she was on with three other women, talking about women in the workplace, on the Sirius Satellite radio show, Be Happy, Dammit!, as well as another blogger’s summary of the panel discussion. I was struck by how many of the…
Read MoreDancing on the Edge
Check out the sixth episode of the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving podcast, recorded interviews with my friend, Ilene Kouzel, on living and dying well. You can purchase the full 23-minute episode for 99 cents. All profits will be donated to the ALS Association and the Ilene Kouzel Scholarship for Diversity. Ilene died exactly one year…
Read MoreTalent Wars for Accountants
Yep, you read that right. Since Sarbanes-Oxley was adopted in 2002, there’s been an increasing demand for accountants. And how are accounting firms attracting new recruits? Through stories. The Wall Street Journal reports that Deloitte and Touche, one of the Big Four accounting firms, is asking "employees to make short videos about their experiences at…
Read MoreSecond Curves, Self-Definition, and Family Support
Other thoughts/hypotheses on Second Curves: There are multiple Second Curves. The hope is that each successive curve will be more successful (steeper curve, higher performance) than the previous one. And in an ideal world, each Second Curve starts off at a higher point than where the previous Second Curve started. The fear in the context…
Read MoreMore on Sigmoid Curves
I’m wondering what causes the start of the Second Curve for individual careers. So I started to draw sigmoid curves for different scenarios of career transition. Here are a few examples. I haven’t yet figured out how to quickly draw these curves electronically so I’ll verbally describe: Laid-off, burned out white collar professional, in the…
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