Category Archives: Career Change

When asked, most peo­ple will reply to that ques­tion with “I work for XYZ Cor­po­ra­tion.” In real­ity you work for a per­son, a boss. CNN Money reg­u­larly pub­lishes the list of the best com­pa­nies to work for in the coun­try such as Zap­pos, REI, Google, and Weg­mans Food Mar­kets. Okay, can you assume that you are auto­mat­i­cally going to be sat­is­fied and ful­filled with your work–that the peo­ple around you and your boss will sup­port who you are? What if…

In the recent Econ­o­mist Issue The world in 2012, Matthew Bishop tack­les an area of great inter­est to us–how to hire the best peo­ple. link here.

Steve Jobs gave a vale­dic­tory to the grad­u­at­ing class at Stan­ford in 2006 that is con­sid­ered a clas­sic and has been widely quoted: fol­low your pas­sion; don’t live some­one else’s life. Sound, bril­liant, obser­va­tions. The part of that speech that res­onates for me and that isn’t as widely quoted: “When I was 17, I read a quote that went some­thing like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, some­day you’ll most cer­tainly be right.’ It made an…