Daylighting, Quiet Quitting, and the Great Resignation are trendy buzzwords, yet this is what you need to do to survive — Reading my email in the car while waiting for a rainstorm to stop, I saw this question posed by a reporter. What strategies will help people in the job market adopt in these tumultuous times? Good Question and right on time too. Three years ago, strategies that worked so well…

What others think may have more power over you than you realize — House-sitting for a friend recently, I spent a week in a vast yet orderly housing development. The kind with just right-sized signs in what I suspect are statistically determined locations gently reminding readers of a community rule or guiding you to the swimming pool. Each day, teams of gardeners wearing…

What every employee needs to know about finding a job. — A few years ago, this Labor Day post gave me pause.

And one smart question you can ask to take back your freedom. — On a sunny fall afternoon years before bike rides necessitated helmets, my brother and I piled into a station wagon with wood on the sides and back-facing seats. “What’s this?” my mother asked, pointing to the sheet of mimeographed paper my brother clutched in his hand. My brother replied, “These…

96% of people use LinkedIn wrong. Here's the key to using it right. — Remember when Airbnb was the trendy darling of the crowd-sourcing set? After its inception in 2007, it exploded in popularity, yet by 2017, articles titled “Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?” began asking if Airbnb was damaging long-term rental markets. Fast forward to now. You're on trend if you joke…

It offers excellent advice. Do you agree? — Back when we were younger, my brother bought his wife a hot-air balloon ride for her birthday. That's how one fall afternoon we found ourselves at the tiny local airport in rural Virginia. The existence of an airport suggests this town had more than two stoplights. It didn't. The airport…

Why you should stop talking about your "problem solver" skills and talk about this instead. — A pattern I've observed repeatedly in working with and managing people: Humans are really good at identifying problems ― but really bad at coming up with solutions. — Zain Kahn My employer was in death spasms before the bank bailout of 2008. The economic downturn didn't cause their problems so much as expedite their demise.

This is the new trend and here’s how you can do it — In Spring 2020, four days after Covid abruptly halted the Venice Carnival, I was on a train heading down the east coast. Passengers were already wearing masks and giving their seats a Lysol wipedown. My phone vibrated. It was a client I’d helped land his last job. Now, two years…

How salary transparency and parity are changing and salary compression might be stuck. — When Netflix red envelopes were arriving in mailboxes, my friend Bess had a sweet job with a famous tech firm in Silicon Valley. Tech stock was frenzied. The first silicon valley millionaires were emerging, and Bess was smack in the middle of it all. …