My friend and 30/20 Vision radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak and I had the opportunity to contribute to Marci Alboher’s New York Times career coach roundtable on management consulting and investment banking as careers for soon-to-be college grads.  Here was the question, as well as highlights from our responses: “I will be graduating ...

In his bestsellers Brand Warfare and Career Warfare, author David D'Alessandro offered sharp advice for building a brand and building a career. His new book, Executive Warfare is the advanced class for the truly ambitious. The book covers what it takes to rise to the top-and to do the even harder thing, which is survive there.  In ...

Vickie Hann, HR Director at the Hilton Arlington near my old stomping grounds of Washington D.C., contacted me to share the great work her hotel is doing around the Earth Charter, an international people’s treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.   At the Hilton Arlington, an Earth Charter ...

It seems like every other business book I pick up lately is written by a successful entrepreneur who either A) experienced a ridiculous amount of trial and tribulation to pursue his dream – such as living homeless for a year – or B) shunned a traditional education and drove a high-powered career on resourcefulness alone.  I wondered aloud why ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, the human resources field is abuzz with the news that napping at work can help prevent heart disease. The catalyst?  A study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which is being covered in thousands of news outlets, including Reuters and the Washington Post, as we speak.  To reach ...

[ImageAttachment]   What is with all of these high-profile people shooting their mouths off?  First there was Mel Gibson, then Michael Richards, and now uber-publisher Judith Regan.  What do these three have in common?  They let their guards down in the heat of the moment, and are living to regret it big time as their racist ...

[ImageAttachment]   Hannah Clark over at Forbes has an interesting piece on end-of-year bonuses.  Apparently, the traditional holiday bonus is nearly extinct, a fact which comes as no surprise to me given that I have never received one.  Clark reports on a study by Hewitt Associates, which found that only 34% of employers will ...

The Society for Human Resource Management reports that CCH Inc., a provider of HR and employment law information and services, has released its 2006 Unscheduled Absence Survey.  The rate of unscheduled absences rose to 2.5 percent in 2006, the highest it has been since 1999.  Unscheduled absences cost some large employers an estimated ...

Over the next few months, we’re going to be doing a blogswap with CollegeRecruiter.com.  This means that while I will still continue to post several times a week, you will also be treated to the wise musings of guest career bloggers.  We’re kicking things off with a post from Susan Strayer, a career and organization development expert ...

[ImageAttachment] By now, the news has sunk in that the Democrats have taken over Congress, and everyone’s talking about what will happen next in Iraq.  But what, if anything, does it mean for your earning potential?   In USA Today, Sue Kirchhoff and Kathy Chu speculate about how our world might change in light of the recent political ...