Your first job is a classroom
You spent years in school learning how to think, write, analyze, and perform. Then you landed a job, and discovered that none of that fully prepared you…
Category: Personal Development
The art of taking initiative
Taking initiative is one of the most valued qualities in any workplace. It is also one of the easiest to get wrong. Done well, it looks like this: you…
What not to say in your first weeks on the job
A new job is an audition. The role has been offered, yes, but whether it becomes a career depends largely on what happens in the first ninety days. A few…
Spring clean your workspace, spring clean your head
Something about spring and cleaning goes hand in hand, and it’s not just closets and garages that benefit from the treatment. Your workspace, whether it’s…
The follow-through gap
Most people are not short on ideas. They have plans, intentions, good resolutions, and moments of genuine inspiration. What stops them isn’t talent or…
The one habit that separates productive people from busy ones
Here is the problem with multitasking: it doesn’t actually exist. What the brain does when we think we’re multitasking is switch rapidly between tasks,…
Change your Google habits
By now, you have seen the AI answers pop up on Google when you search. And it’s high time to treat Google more like an AI and less like a search engine….
How to manage interns
The academic year will be over before you know it, and for many businesses, summertime also means summer interns. According to the American Society of…
Manage up
If you’ve ever been part of a team or even overseen one, you know how important it is to work together and maintain open communication with managers. But…
Beat the ‘captivity of activity’ with rest
There’s a difference between accomplishing something and doing something. Our fast-track world honors constant activity, but those who aren’t selective…