Are you among the many who have been professionally affected by the current recession? Unprecedented unemployment rates have come along with the COVID pandemic. In fact, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reached unemployment rates greater than their highest recorded during the Great Recession–and rates that have not been reached since data … Read more
You know what it’s like. You’re trying to be more productive, to stop procrastinating and actually get stuff done. But before you can execute your perfectly planned to-do list, some disorganized bozo rips it to pieces as surely as if you’d jammed it in the paper shredder yourself. But what can you do about it? … Read more
My first job right out of undergrad was in sales–and it was miserable. I hated constantly hearing “no” from people and not really ever finding my niche in the business. This was clearly not the right career for me, but I remember one of the best sales representatives telling me about the “Law of 10” … Read more
Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you had followed your dreams right after high school? If you had decided to major in art in college… instead of engineering? Or if you had taken that job fixing classic cars… instead of going to work as salesman for a nationwide auto dealership chain? Or… … Read more
Receiving criticism can hurt. …especially when it’s from your boss. No matter how “supportive” it is intended to be, it’s often difficult to see past the negative component to criticism: the fact that you did something…imperfect. I know I have spent hours ruminating over constructive criticism that was given to me at work, thinking everyone … Read more