A few days ago, I was scheduled to be on a local NPR radio show with one of my biggest and longstanding influencers, Bruce Tulgan.  For those of you who might not know, Bruce is internationally recognized as a leading expert on young people in the workplace and has his own consulting firm, Rainmaker Thinking, that has trained employees in ...

When you’ve reached a certain level in your career, or have been in the same field for a long time, it’s easy to become overconfident and think that you know exactly the way things should be done.  This, however, is a dangerous place to be.  Not only will you get lazy in your approach to innovation, but you’ll also be prone to an ...

Dave Lorenzo at Career Intensity talks about a scene he recently witnessed at his office.  A group of clients visited company headquarters for a day, but during the scheduled meetings parties on both sides spent much of the time typing on their Blackberries.     Says Dave:  “If you were a company employee and you invited a ...

I still remember the day six months ago when a good friend of mine called me up to tell me about this new junior-level employee she wanted to hire.  I had never heard my friend, the director of the tourism division at a global advertising agency, sound this jazzed about a potential new employee.    Apparently, at twenty-four, the ...