Management Rule #1: Make sure you have the right perspective.
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Gen X & Gen Y
The cover of Chicago’s Red Eye this morning shows a bright and shiny cartoon smile, over a bright and shiny yellow background. The headline reads, “Gen Happy: Despite life’s biggest stresses, Millennials are carefree and worry-free—and, for some reason, full of smiles.” Uh-huh. Ready? I’m calling BS. It’s not that I doubt the results—I’m sure [...]
Other people are already trying to put you in a box. If you’re going to help them, do so by making sure it’s the right box.
Chris Ferdinandi recently wrote about why you shouldn’t care about a multigenerational workforce. And technically, he’s right. Yet, there is clearly a problem, and it certainly seems generational in nature. Just within the last week, I have heard about: A Gen Y job seeker who became angry at his brother’s girlfriend because she wouldn’t give [...]
Business is always personal. Your job is your livelihood… that’s pretty darn personal, methinks. Yet, it is also professional. You do need to be able to assess situations free of emotion in order to figure out the best way forward! So, it’s both… it’s always both. Always professional, always personal. Always… profersonal.
I thought I’d do a quick follow up on my post about taking action with a real-life success story about how the process actually works. This comes from an email that I got last Friday morning. I picked it up while waiting for a connecting flight at LAX, and immediately called the person who sent [...]
Huh? Jase, What advantage are you talking about?! I’ll tell you. As news of an economic recovery starts to trickle in here and there, corporate rookies should be licking their chops. Everyone else should be on edge. Especially people in Michigan, Oregon, and South Carolina, where the economic downturn is hitting particularly hard. (As if [...]
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