If there is a word in the underlying success of companies that triumphed during the pandemic, the word is pivot. If I could, I would
Category: Finding Purpose
This blog is all things career related with a great deal of thought around one’s purpose. To what degree does one find purpose in their professional endeavors?
I finally received the push that I needed to start this blog series in that it will be featured on a new social media start up site, http://www.MyBlankJob.com. The founder of the website is an accomplished digital marketing professional. There was a point in her life that she felt as if she was at a crossroads career wise and needed a change. When she began considering her next move career wise, she found that there were countless sites that would place her in a new job doing what she was already doing. She found little guidance that fulfilled her desire to change paths. In this time of her career crosswords, she sought a means of researching, organizing and making notes of her comparison of MBA schools. She did not readily find an online tool that provided these capabilities. She coupled her desire to commiserate with others on the quirks (aka frustrations) of one’s workplace with her desire to truly entertain a career change and the need for tools to analyze one’s educational and career options, and she created MyBlankJob. I am excited that this blog is being featured on the site.
In our last posts, we discussed the two initial steps of effectively estimating: Define the scope of the project or tasks that you are estimating.
My favorite step of planning and the estimating process that goes along with it is the second step of making the detailed list of tasks.
Psychologists have an actual term for humans being bad at estimating. The term “planning fallacy” was coined by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in
I am sitting at one my favorite weekday breakfast spots. What makes it a favorite? They set an entire pot of coffee on your table,
As I walked into the office this morning, I overheard a new college hire on the phone with her manager. The two were engaging in
The inherent desire of top performers to be exactly right makes them afraid to estimate. One of my favorite MyBlankJob users, WorkingMom, made a post
My Reprioritized Job resonates with me on several fronts. The user community of MyBlankJob votes on the name of the website. The name changes to
Father’s day is a difficult day for many, and we all approach the day in different ways. It is seven in the morning on Father’s
My viewpoint is that the term “family”, used by employers, long ago became a cliché used by some of the most uncaring employers out there