We’ve all witnessed an exasperated parent loudly scold their child in a public setting screaming, “Why can’t you just behave nicely like your brother?” In elementary school, the wrinkly, past-retirement-age teacher beams at Carol and tells everyone how proud she is that her star ...Read More

Full disclosure—I’m a bad manager. As the CEO of an executive search firm, I tend to overlook important management responsibilities and mainly focus on recruiting, sales, marketing, schmoozing and other creative activities. It’s like a good baseball player that segues into a terrible coach. ...Read More

The steady rise in United States job creation hit a wall in February. According to The Labor Department’s monthly hiring report, an anemic 20,000 new jobs were created. To put this into context, January payroll gains were revised upwards to 311,000 and we have seen ...Read More

As a child, when I was in any social setting with my dad, I would turn flush-faced and cringe. A typical interaction between my father and a complete stranger would go a little something like this: “Hi, nice to meet you! What do you ...Read More

We are a living in a unique time period where there is the lowest level of unemployment since the 1960s and there are more jobs available than people looking for work. The stock market is up, there are no wars on our land and ...Read More

The future job market will be radically different—almost alien—to what we have now. There are a waves of forces that will significantly change the way we work and the type of jobs we hold. The rapid ascension of sophisticated technology, global connectedness and a ...Read More

There is an underrated, unnoticed and underappreciated superpower trait that most successful people possess. We tend to think that superstars, billionaires, athletes and others who are amazingly successful have skyrocketed to wealth and fame with ease. Their seemingly overnight ascent to wealth, power, prestige ...Read More