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Editor’s Note: As the summer winds down, I’m republishing some of my most well read posts here on The Skeptical Guy. This one is from back in March 2015. A LONG TIME AGO, I worked with a company that valued managers with great personalities over just about anything else. There was one guy who corporate management
Editor’s Note: The summer months are a good time to occasionally republish some of my most popular posts. Here’s one from back in July 2014. YOU CAN TAKE IT from me: Arguing with the boss is generally not a career enhancing experience. I know this because I have worked for a number of different bosses
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my classic posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in September 2018. JUST WHAT DO job candidates want most? It’s actually pretty simple, as a Glassdoor survey of job seekers found. Yet, simple or not, it’s remarkable how so many organizations can’t seem to
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my classic posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in August 2012. HERE’S A STORY I SAW saw over at Forbes that was so odd that it caught even my cynical and jaded eye — Six Lines Your Boss Should Never Cross.
LIKE SO MANY things in life, the Harvard Business Review isn’t what it used to be. I’m not sure why, but the cutting-edge stories about the world of business that HBR used to be known for seem to be more infrequent these days. If you pinned me down I wouldn’t be able to give you
I LOVE IT WHEN an editor somewhere writes a snappy headline that makes me really want to read the story. I’ve written a few of those myself, and I know how hard they are to compose, but oh how wonderful they read when you pen one that really clicks. I found one like that in
LEAVING A JOB is never, ever easy — even when you’re jumping to something new that might be pretty good. That’s because people frequently have mixed feelings when they finally make the decision to go somewhere else. Even when you have a bad job, work at a horrible company, or have a terrible boss, you
HERE’S SOMETHING I wonder about: why are we all so surprised that there are so many fake job ads getting posted today? ResumeBuilder.com touted a survey they did with “649 hiring managers” in May 2024 that came up with the not-so-surprising finding that “40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year” and that
Editor’s Note: Have a great Fourth of July. We’ll be taking off some time and back July 8. IT WAS A HEADLINE that grabbed me because what it said was pretty amazing. The story was in Worklife, a website I don’t look at very often … until somebody flags a headline like this — Over
I WAS INTO REMOTE work long before anyone called it that. But it took me some time before I had a job suited for it. Back then I was a Vice President at the much maligned, ahead of its time Pets.com — it was an early version of Chewy despite what Chewy’s former CEO says
