When you get to a certain point in your career, the tendency is to think you’re supposed to be an expert in everything pertaining to your field.  After all, you have years of experience under your belt, you keep up on new developments well enough, and you’re the one people are always asking for advice. 

Regardless of your occupation, if you aren’t continually learning and innovating, you risk becoming obsolete and irrelevant.  The key, though, is not to insist on being some kind of superhuman who knows everything and can do everything without input or assistance.  Instead, your success depends on your ability to identify the people in your life who excel in a particular area – and tap them.

In my career as a career expert and author, I do this all the time.  This year alone, I’ve asked my colleagues Penelope Trunk for book marketing tips, Lindsey Pollak for ideas on building a popular Facebook group, and Barbara Stanny for thoughts on how to do better on the lecture circuit.  

Today, I’m asking YOU how Water Cooler Wisdom can be a better blog.  WCW is now about twenty months old – a toddler!  Traffic is steady, but it hasn’t increased much in the last couple of months, and I’d like to see more people commenting.  What would entice you to become more engaged with this blog?   Are there particular topics you’d like to see covered?  Would you be interested in reading posts from guest bloggers?  So many of you are avid blog readers and also maintain flourishing blogs.  Any and all suggestions are welcome.  Bring them on!