More than a living

Part of being happy at work is finding ways to sustain your personal growth. One way to ensure you’re sustaining your personal growth is finding a mentor.
Ideally, that mentor has some sort of relationship with you. However, when push-comes-to-shove, perceived mentors or role models work equally well.
Guy Kawasaki tends to fall in this role model […]

I love my daily dose of Systematic HR. A great reflection on millennial talent resonates.
I think that “life indeed is the pursuit, not the fulfillment of one’s work life” is a key point that Gen Xers had to slowly stumble into, whereas Gen Ys have had the advantage of watching their Baby Boomer parents discover […]

Apparently, IBM has been experimenting with Second Life, using it to test a number of virtual human resource and organizational development functions. The one I found most interesting? The mentoring community:
In the United States, we’re using Second Life to create a mentoring community. So if you’re interested in talking to somebody who has 25 years […]

Ugh.
If you have (had) a little person in your home, you know what potty training is all about. This is a crazy mix of hope, anxiety, and sense of pending loss as your little person flirts with the idea of leaving diapers behind for a bold and independent new world. As easy as diapers are […]

[Editor: Toby and I got into a little conversation about “babysitting vs. parenting,” and how that analogy applied to employees and careers and whatnot. He was taking it from a managerial perspective and I was taking it from a career perspective. So, guess what? We’re both going to post on the topic. Here’s his take […]

I was reading my first monthly magazine from Investment Advisor, a subscription offer that had peaked my interest, though I sit outside their target market. (Since I think about one’s career as perhaps their core asset in their investment portfolio, it made perfect sense to take a look at this magazine that targets the advising […]

Part of the struggle to find more meaning–and more reward–in the work you do, day in and day out, is to recognize opportunities and potential pitfalls. Take risks, but know when you’re taking them. Here at little ol’ More than a living, we’re big fans of the mentor concept. We really believe that it’s one of the best ways to learn.