An Income Gap for Baby Boomers During Career Transitions
New research from Civic Ventures, a San Francisco think tank aimed at baby boomers who want to combine work with social purpose illuminates some of the challenges to doing so. Read the rest of this entry »
The Start-Up of You
Released only yesterday, The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha has already skyrocked to number four of the top 100 books on amazon.com. What holds the top three slots? Even a roadmap for personal entrepreneurship and career advancement is no match for the Hunger Games trilogy. Read the rest of this entry »
Taking People With You, Part One
About a decade ago I interviewed David Novak, the CEO of Yum Brands, more familiar to many readers as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga and Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is well known for its case study method. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anita Elberse, case study method, entertainment, Harvard Business School, Lady Gaga, leadership, management
Contests for Fledgling Entrepreneurs
The jobs numbers were released on Friday and showed unemployment inched up again.
With job offering few, some job seekers are turning to entrepreneurship and are entering contests. Here are two.
Daily Candy is sponsoring their Start Small Go Big Contest.
The Peter Drucker Challenge 2011 is seeking essays from entrepreneurs younger than 35.
Tags: job creation
Ideas from Aspen
I didn’t make the trip but I’ve been inspired and transported this week by the provocative ideas coming from the Aspen Ideas Festival that ended Sunday. And I’ve also been transfixed by the interviews of Chrystia Freeland of Reuters, a festival sponsor.
Tags: leadership
Management Lessons from the Weather
During a particularly balmy January interlude in the middle of the last decade, I exmained the consequences of warmer office temperatures in a story called Some Like It Hot. In many ways it was a lighthearted piece, written during record breaking high temperatures. By the time the story was published and set to drop on doorsteps and driveways, the area was hit was a massive blizzard delaying and cancelling deliveries, once again proving weather holds sway over our best decisions. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: innovation, management decision making, negotiating skills, office temperatures, telecommuting
