More than a living

If you work in the corporate world, you’re likely starting to feel a little prickly sensation on the back of your neck. And that’s because, after reading that headline up there, you’re beginning to think about the ominous–not to mention foreboding–”annual performance review.”
As an employee, you’re now beginning to scramble. Trying to remind your managers […]

Sometimes, we’re so heads down working in our little fiefdoms, we fail to notice that the moats around our stone towers have grown together.
And that makes a huge gap.
So why not pick your head up and see where those gaps are?
Chances are you could fill that gap and expand your expertise. Create something valuable. Or […]

Dumb luck. Fluke. Blue bird.
How are you finding your future leaders? Are you leaving it up to blind chance, pulling candidates off monster or pushing recruiters’ picks through your interview process?
Some of the best hires I’ve met of late have been for a company in a little out-of-the-way town, responding to ads placed by a […]

Do you employ experts? Do you wish you did? What’s the hold up? A review of some past rants on Pride and Workmanship have me wondering,
Does the conferring title of “expert” on members of your team result in a higher quality of work?
I’m inclined to think it does.
Right or wrong, when I am invested in […]

Day One at a new company – who will you be here? What will your work say about you?
Not that you can’t be the same person you were yesterday – that person got you hired after all. But how will you be more of who you are? The best version of what you can be?
Remember, […]

So I’m doing some research for a client, looking at the staffing measures of peer finance departments in other organizations, and found the Demandments from Talent Mindset. Some pretty smart observations if you find yourself searching for in-demand talent.
Why didn’t we get this breakdown coming out of school? I’ll be surprised if you are surprised […]

For those that have jumped the fence into the world of consulting, the question invariably comes up on what is a qualified referral worth? Thanks to the Bay Area Consulting Network, I’ve found the first of what may become a body of reasonable guidance:
Fee sharing may range from 0 – 40% and should always be […]

Your ultimate goal–at any job–should be achieving your own obsolescence. When you achieve that, you’ve really succeeded.
You should be extinct.
Not only that, but you should plan to be extinct. You should strive to be extinct.
You should be gone. Remember that.
That, and that alone, should be your only goal as an employee.
“What cockamamie bull is he […]

If you aren’t, you are becoming antiquated - so goes the straight-forward advise in It’s a “Sprint” not a “Marathon,” from Incentive Intelligence.
Each career cycle is getting shorter, which means that you need to be thinking about how you are expanding your bases of professional expertise. Being a niche specialist isn’t a long term strategy, […]

As more and more of us move from the corporate office to the home office, I find that we’re all battling with a workspace-within-my-personal-space issue.
By working from home, you just increased your accessibility–to both clients and your family–by tenfold. And the fact that you’re sitting at home, banging away on your keyboard in the exact […]