When I was choosing my major I figured I should major in something that would help me land a job.
I was pretty short-sighted and didn’t quite understand what that meant but I figured there were some majors that either didn’t get jobs or that got very low-paying jobs.
I ultimately chose to get a degree in [...]

I think it’s intriguing to learn about what recruiters talk, and learn, about.  Understanding what they are paying money for and what they are trying to incorporate into their business can help you understand how to better position yourself, whether you are in an active or passive job search.
Here’s parts of an agenda (full agenda [...]

One of the most important factors to being a good Twitter user is to be personable. This fact has sparked an argument that suggests personality lacks to those with more than one twitter profile. Why would you want more than one twitter profile and is this OK? Multiple profiles should be used to interact with [...]

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It’s OK to Have Multiple Twitter Accounts

There’s a discussion I think we need to have that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
I’ve been thinking about this for the last year or so, as the job market has gotten worse.
The pink elephant seems to be those who are discriminated against for their age – specifically, the older worker (we can talk about age discrimination [...]

My post on the power of bosses who take a moment to offer a simple “thanks” to people got me thinking about the more general question of little signs that your boss cares for you. Certainly, as my recent HBR…

It is harder to know who you are than it is to be who you are. Everyone says, “The important thing is to be yourself!”  I say that when I give them career advice. People like you better when you are being authentic. Gay people do better in their careers when they are out of the closet. [...]

Over at HBR online today, one of the articles they are featuring is my piece on The Boss as Human Shield. One point the article makes, and that I emphasize in Good Boss, Bad Boss , is that your job…

As Twitter enthusiasts, we are very proud of our Twitter feeds.: They reflect our centers of interest as well as our opinions. So why not integrate your Twitter account to your clothes?
This is precisely what myTwittshirt is intended to: with this web service you can create custom t-shirts that embed a QR-code (similar to a [...]

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Never Go Out Without Your Twitter: Wear It!

The approach that I take to giving advice in Good Boss, Bad Boss and in everything else I write is to try to be as evidence-based as possible. But I also realize that the academic literature does not always map…

Jim Stroup’s Managing Leadership took me by surprise. I got in the mail last week and was intending to glance at it for a few minutes, but I am now hooked. I also felt compelled to write an Amazon review…

Jim Stroup’s Managing Leadership took me by surprise. I got in the mail last week and was intending to glance at it for a few minutes, but I am now hooked. I also felt compelled to write an Amazon review…

As I wrote yesterday, I just had an HBR article on “The Boss as Human Shield” appear, which presents some of the main points from Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. HBR online posts the text of the article…

This is what I get in my email every day… a Google Alert on the work “layoffs”:

I wonder about those 2,000 employees for the Royal Bank of Scott (RBS), or the 130 employees of USA Today… did they see the writing on the wall?
Did they ignore it, like I did?
Or were they busy working hard, [...]

I’m sure you’d love to receive more retweets that you currently do. In fact, we all do, I’m the first to admit it. Why? Because more RTs means more traffic to your blog, to your videos and to whatever it is you want to share with others. Besides, more RTs also mean to get more [...]

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How to Get More Retweet Action on Twitter

The September Harvard Business Review includes my “The Boss as Human Shield,” which presents some of the main points in Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. From what I can tell, HBR puts up articles on their website for…

Have you ever been at a concert and wondered what the rest of the audience is thinking? Or been at a presentation and had a good point to add? Or at a nightclub and wanted to request a song but not deal with the security surrounding the DJ? Well, there’s a great way to do [...]

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Stream Twitter on TVs in real-time at events, concerts, presentations and more.

The most recent Economist summarizes a fascinating study by two researchers over at the Stanford Business School — Professor David Larker and PhD Student Anastasia Zakolyukina — based on transcripts of American CEOs and CFOs statements during 30,000 quarterly earnings…

Amazon is already shipping the paperback edition of The No Asshole Rule; the official release is September 1 but they are moving a bit ahead of schedule. I had a lot of fun writing the new chapter called “On Being…

So, I am lost. But I need to be useful more than I need to confess feeling lost. So, here I am, telling you what I'm doing to get through this, because I think you and I have an agreement that you'll put up with me being lost and not posting very often, as long [...]

I am continuing to march through my list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe over at HBR as we get close to the official release of Good Boss, Bad Boss. My last post — #8 on the list — digs…