With all the talk of goals, resolutions and great intentions for 2011, I’d like to give you a resolution for 2011 you must keep. Must keep. Here it is: Invest in your career in a way to give you employment security, not merely job security. The reasons for this are both obvious and subtle. Let’s… Continue Reading
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Would you stay or leave this company?
“On the edge of the knife” Photo by Thomaniac What follows is true. I’d really like to know what you would do and why. A friend of mine has been with a Fortune 500 company for 15-years. Two months ago he, along with some in the group he managed, was laid off, but asked to… Continue Reading
5 ways to manage better without cheap recognition tricks
Reg 220 after the rapture by quinn.anya When you lay off millions of workers, management does it to save money and to try and maintain profitability. Too often, however, the amount of work stays the same, forced now on the remaining workers. While the Wall Street Journal notes that ” rewards for extra work comes… Continue Reading
Why you are not ready to find a new job even when you say you are
Most people think that if the unthinkable happens — they get laid off or their company goes belly up — that they are immediately ready to look for another job. I know this because Robert Half published a survey that asked — and 82% of the respondents said they were ready right now. Next, they… Continue Reading
Why being a Cubicle Warrior gives you an unfair advantage
When you pay attention to your work environment and have a good understanding of what you want out of a job, you get an unfair advantage over those who don’t. You put your career on offense while most others are playing defense. By learning and using Cubicle Warrior skills on the job: Cubicle Warriors get… Continue Reading
Layoffs are good for you and industry
Over at Wired, there is an article that suggests layoffs are good both for you and for the technology industry. It’s a provocative title, to be sure. The argument is that workers in Silicon Valley have a culture of not doing work they don’t like — so they job-hop. Not for promotions or climbing the… Continue Reading
It is a paycheck — and it is killing us
This past weekend, Kate and I were at a party of old friends and coworkers. It is a comfortable group. As in any situation where former coworkers get together, there is a lot of sharing about who is working where and what job openings are available to others. The story on this get together was… Continue Reading
New job responsibilities from layoffs
Layoffs hit the people who survive the layoff as well. Not only are there emotional feelings liked guilt-tripping for staying, but real work issues as well. And opportunities. Newsday reports that “surviving layoffs may mean new job responsibilities” and the advice they provide is on the mark. Having fewer people at work means the people… Continue Reading
When you can’t trust your management team…
When you can’t trust your management team, knowledge workers talk to each other. Because they can. When you can’t trust your management team, people look for every signal they can find and then interpret the signal in relation to the worst that can happen. When you can’t trust your management team, you start looking at… Continue Reading
5 actions employees should take in case of debt default
photo credit: Johnny Vulkan The traditional media is finally catching up to what a lot of us have seen for a while: There is a very good possibility that the United States will default on its debt on August 2nd by not raising the debt ceiling. The impact of that, according to pundits, is anything… Continue Reading