Ten Ways To Be a Stellar Employee
Although much has been said about being an entrepreneur and starting a company, I think...
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Tag: career
Why You Need To Be Thinking About Your Personal Brand at Work
While in management consulting, I learned a valuable lesson. It’s a lesson I have since...
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Five Things Great Employees Do To Help Their Bosses and Accelerate Their Career
When I first started working, I did not know what a great employee did. What separated average or...
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How to find the work you were meant to do — what I learned from Chris Guillebeau
Chris Guillebeau is the best selling author of The $100 startup and has developed a...
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Eight ways to grow and advance your career
I’m at a point in my career where I have managed to progress and grow in my position quite...
Read MoreEvaluating job opportunities – sometimes it’s not about the money
Every once in a while, I stop and evaluate myself among my peers. I know you’re not supposed to compare yourself to others but I can’t help it – I like judging myself sometimes through external benchmarks and one way that I do it is by thinking about who my peers are and how far […]
Read MoreHobbies vs. jobs vs. careers vs. vocation
This video is something that I recently watched and found it to be extremely illuminating. Elizabeth Gilbert is an author, probably best known for Eat Pray Love (which got made into a movie with Julia Roberts) but she has also written a few other interesting books — Committed and her most recent best seller Big Magic. What […]
Read MoreOptics – how management consultants think about the actions that they take
Optics is an interesting subject to me – before management consulting, I knew optics as more of a perception that other people would have based on your actions and without knowing your intent but I’m glad that there is an actual term for it. Before I define what I think optics mean, let’s look at […]
Read MoreAdam Robinson and his advice for college graduates
I recently had the chance to listen to an interview that Tim Ferriss conducted with Adam Robinson. A bit of background on Adam, he is an American educator, freelance author and a US Chess Federation life master. He co-founded The Princeton Review, wrote a best selling exam prep book Cracking the SAT and currently works […]
Read MoreMy favourite book of all time and why I read it almost every month
When I graduated in 2008, I somehow fortunately (or unfortunately) ended up looking for work during the middle of the recession. It was great trying to find work during that time – I was being rejected left and right. I had done coop while I was in university and even the coop companies did not […]
Read MoreWhat I learned from Jon Acuff about quitting and closing the gap between my day job and my dream job
I recently read Jon Acuff’s book: Quitter – Closing the gap between your day job and your dream job. Jon is an expert at quitting jobs. He held eight jobs in eight years from 1998 until 2006 and he quit six of those jobs, one he was fired from and another went out of business. […]
Read MoreThe actor’s life and seven things I learned from Jenna Fischer
I had the wonderful opportunity to read Jenna Fischer’s book ‘The Actor’s Life – a Survival Guide’. I know Jenna from The Office fame and in the book, she chronicles her own experience working her way up in acting and how she actually ironically worked a number of administrative assistant / secretary jobs before landing […]
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