Last week a bunch of us were chatting about how searching and applying for jobs operates right now. For me it helped to think about houses. Some houses leave the front door wide open. Others keep it on the latch. A few of the houses at the end of the…
Posts tagged blog-home-careers
Lowercase skills
You may be familiar with concepts like T-shaped or I-shaped people to help simplify the way we think about skillsets in people. Here’s another that’s even simpler, and based on concepts most of us learnt when we were 4 or 5 years old. Capital and lowercase. [1] It used to…
Career Fuel: 3 elements for making deals as a freelancer or consultant
Today my pal Tom came over to my place for lunch. [1] Tom is a digital marketing & strategy consultant, and has lots of interesting thoughts about the practice of independent consulting (in fact he’s writing a book about it – for a primer check out this blog post). We got…
3 circles for managing control, influence, concern, and anxiety
A concept I came across earlier this Summer is that of 3 circles. I first used it in a business growth and change management class I was teaching, but it’s come up several times recently with friends and clients who are feeling overwhelmed with projects to tackle, situations to manage,…
5 lessons from Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola
The latest in Amazon Prime’s ‘All or Nothing’ sports documentary series goes behind the scenes at the highly successful and somewhat polarizing English Premier League football team Manchester City. Led by the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola, City swept all before them in the league last season,…
Are you built for the big company? Take a tip from Ripley
I like synchronicity. Every so often I have a day where after meeting a few different people, by sunset several of the topics and ideas we’ve discussed seem to connect and interweave as if by magic. This could just be coincidence or my biases at work, but I believe it’s something…
Why do we ignore our middle chapter?
Like a lot of people I’ve got much more in podcasts recently, and my go-to is without doubt Shane Parrish’s Knowledge Project. I think I’m pretty safe in assuming his most popular interview (and also longest – something of an oxymoron today…) is with Naval Ravikant, founder of Angelist. Just…