As I was working on Success for Hire, I had the good fortune to meet an excellent blogger and radio show host, the Recruiting Animal.  Animal’s got one of the most hilariously combative shows you’ll ever listen to, and I had a great time as a guest earlier this month.  Anyway, Animal flagged a very interesting article from the MIT Sloan ...

Lately, I’ve been speaking at a lot of colleges regarding the challenges new graduates can expect to face in the workplace, and how they can conduct themselves professionally and diplomatically in order to ensure their success.  A lot of my tips are things that I wish someone had told me when I was still in school, before I got my first job ...

[ImageAttachment]   Much as we may grumble about our colleagues, they’re there for a reason.  Your company or department’s workload is too much for one person.  Sometimes, you’ll even get a direct report or two (or even a whole group) to help manage the never-ending stream of tasks.  Because there are only so many hours in a ...