Peter Cappelli and Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs
Longtime readers of this blog will recognize Peter Cappelli. He was interviewed here in December 2010.. And now he’s back with a new book called Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
The Start-Up of You
Released only yesterday, The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha has already skyrocked to number four of the top 100 books on amazon.com. What holds the top three slots? Even a roadmap for personal entrepreneurship and career advancement is no match for the Hunger Games trilogy. Read the rest of this entry »
Can Your Child Enhance Your Career?
Long time readers of this blog will remember a post in January 2010 when I interviewed Marc Freedman, the head of Civic Ventures about working longer. You can read that post here. This year Mr. Freedman came out with a new book entitled The Big Shift. A compelling and well reviewed book, it advances the conversation about delaying retirement. One suggestion he floats is that of a gap year for adults. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amy Winehouse, career choice, career transitions, Civic Ventures, Marc Freedman, Mitch Winehouse, parents and children, second careers, second chances, The Big Shift, young adults
A Bit of History about the Workplace
Recently I heard a reading of the book Almost a Family given by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, John Darnton. Mr. Darnton who was not yet a year old when his father Byron “Barney” Darnton became a war correspondent in the Pacific theater in World War II and was killed, possibly by friendly fire. Read the rest of this entry »
Nice Girls …the Sequel
Early in the last decade Dr. Lois P. Frankel wrote Nince Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. The book touched a nerve, became an international best seller and was translated into 25 languages. Now Dr. Frankel is back with a co-author, Carol Frohlinger who is an attorney and cofounder of Negotiating Women, Inc., whose mission is to help women negotiate more confidently. The title of their new book is Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It. Read the rest of this entry »
The Benefits of an Unexpected Career
Right out of graduate school, journalism still a gleam in my eye, another recession prompted an early career detour into retailing. After a six month stretch while I finished my thesis, unexpectedly I became what generations had known as a floor walker. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: consumer spending, low wages, retailing, survivor jobs
You Can’t Fire Everyone by Hank Gilman
Hank Gilman, the Deputy Managing Editor of Fortune has come out with a new book, You Can’t Fire Everyone, a career reminisce packed with solid advice for all those who are a promoted to management and then find they need to stay ahead of the curve they didn’t know existed. It’s not just aimed at those who have reached the tippy top of management. For journalism buffs, its also offers insights on the recent transformations in the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Review–As One
Recently I received a review copy of a book called As One by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley. Mr. Baghai lives in Australia, earned his consulting stripes at McKinsey and is now associated with Alchemy Growth Partners and Mr. Quigley is the visible Global CEO of Deloitte Touche and Tohmatsu.
While some might consider As One a calling card for new clients, the authors appear to have tapped into the zeitgeist and applied it to the business environment. Mr. Quigley for one acknowledges the era of top down, “command and control management” may be way too narrow for modern times, a fact that has reverberated on the nightly news programs lately.
Should You Turn Down a Promotion to Management?
Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative , has just co-authored a new book with Kent Lineback called Being the Boss. It was Mr. Lineback who a decade ago wrote about entrepreneurship in the Silicon Valley with Randy Komisar in The Monk and the Riddle.
Mr. Lineback, spent 25 years as a manager and executive and has been candid about his shortcomings. The book he and Dr. Hill wrote may provide new insights for managers and leaders, in the post recession economy. It may even spare employees some grief as their new managers negotiate a learning curve. Dr.Hill says she frequently asks executives, “How many people have suffered as you tried to learn to do this job?”
Tags: leadership, management, mentoring
Is There a Connection Between the New Unemployables and the New Retirement?
Recently Cali Yost, CEO of the consulting firm Flex + Strategy Group who blogs about work/life fit at FastCompany.com wrote about her experience in a New York City cab on the way to an appointment in this post. She then posed the question, “What can we do right now to help people over 55 years old find and keep jobs?” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bill Novelli, boomerang kids, Cali Yost, knowledge@wharton, older workers, Peter Cappelli, Ted C. Fishman, the new retirement, the new unemployables, work/life balance
