More than a living

“I didn’t take them on to raise” is a phrase I’ve heard not just once in my professional career. And the retort is, “well, yes you did.”
Crap managers babysit, good managers parent. (And if you’ve had a really rockstar manager, you probably felt like a prize orchid in a champion’s greenhouse).
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The dream- your hand on the wheel, guiding your ship where you will, when you will. The wind at your back, the sun in your face. Ahh - the entrepreneurial dream. (You know I’m not really talking about sailing, right?) You are the captain of your own ship, to sink or swim on your own […]

A friend recently left his most recent job to go it on his own, no small feat when you think about the comfort that comes from being part of a larger organization.
The funny thing is, this seems to be a growing trend. An increasing number of 30-somethings in my network find the prospects of independent […]

I can’t really conceive of a results-only work environment. This sounds like a fixed-bid, sub-contractor kind of gig, where expectations are easily spelled out, and results easily evaluated. (And evaluation of the results seems like the real challenge.)
This hasn’t held Best Buy back from taking the plunge. In a Workforce Management article “Throwing out […]