The internship skill I use daily
It’s intern season, which means that offices everywhere are filled with an uncharacteristic number of young people seeing what office life is all about. No …Read More
Category Archives: Career
Do kids make you more productive?
Several alert readers sent me KJ Dell’Antonia’s Motherlode post on a study finding that academic economists with 2+ children were more productive than those without …Read More
My approach to conferences: pack it all in
I wrote this in a coffee shop in Madison, NJ, on Saturday while waiting for my family to pick me up. We were on our …Read More
Networking without really meaning to
Dorie Clark is an excellent networker. The author of the new book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around …Read More
Launch day fun
Just a quick post about launch day events. I went into NYC yesterday to chat with Angela Jia Kim at a Savor the Success event. …Read More
In defense of work/life integration
I’ve been doing a lot of interviews this week about my forthcoming book, and it’s interesting to see what questions come up the most. One …Read More
Stop plotting your escape
Last week, I wrote a piece on how to gracefully exit a conversation. You’ve no doubt been in these situations at networking events where you’d …Read More
How to think and play big
I read a lot of self-help books. Most are…eh. So I was pleasantly surprised when I read Tara Sophia Mohr’s Playing Big, which came out …Read More
“And then there were the wife bonuses”
If one party in a relationship earns a paycheck, and the other doesn’t, how should financial decisions be made? When should either party need to …Read More
Bad conference behavior: Don’t do it!
I’m on my way to the American Society of Journalists and Authors conference later this week (#ASJA2015 – let me know if you’ll be there!) …Read More
