Do the work you were made for.
Something has always stuck with me from a class I took in undergrad on managing your career. The professor, a man on the brink of retirement who related most things back to golf metaphors, said this: Mastering the basics is not optional. You can have the best ideas in the room, but if you can’t …
Like all of nature, we are in never-ending cycles of growth, blooming, fullness, fading and dying. So many people in job search are coming off a DE-struction experience in their working lives. It could be job loss, mistreatment, disenchantment, simply having outgrown an environment or team, or a million other reasons. No one gets through …
A quick business history lesson: when Starbucks was created, its vision was to create the third place. Not home, not work, but another place. It’s come a long way from that vision – no offense, now it’s just another global fast food chain. But it was a great idea to build from. That third place …