World of Work

That’s the title of an event that I’ll be facilitating for Asian-American women on Sept 21 in Denver. We’ll be looking at how to network in a meaningful and natural way, what the participants know about success and failure in navigating their careers, and what it feels like to tap into a community of women…

A friend pointed me to a job post that says as much about the company as who they are looking for. The text of the job post is in italics, with my reactions in bold. "We are looking for talented people…" It seems that every third job posting for user interface design or user research…

A friend of mine recently interviewed with Google. Besides the fact that they get something like 16,000 resumes a day, I was intrigued by these questions that my friend was asked in the interviewing process: Have you ever started a non-profit? Have you ever started a business that was profitable? Have you ever won a…

In past postings, I’ve mentioned Randy Paugh, the Carnegie-Mellon professor dying of pancreatic cancer and the phenomenon of his last lecture. I was intrigued recently when I received an email from a friend who said this: "My manager showed this video to our group recently as our reward for meeting a milestone…His lecture is not…

Several months ago, I blogged about Peter Block’s Employee Manifesto, promising to discuss parts of the Manifesto in later postings. A bit late, but here’s another installment. Item 6 is: "Accept the unpredictability of the situation we are in. The future of the organization is a mystery and who knows how long these conditions will…