What Kelli Schmith, Studs Terkel, and Albert Einstein Have in Common

Success is relative and Failure is the Real Aha. Thanks to Albert Einstein, NPR, and a year marked by change, I stumbled on a unexpected epiphany and a community of friends.

Every A-Player Needs a Playbook

Playbooks: sports teams have them, sales teams have them…now it’s time to create your own Career Playbook. Read why it’s worth your time and effort, and take a look at what I’ve put in mine.

What Do Marketers Need to Learn?

Marketers are a special bunch — sometimes creative, always colorful and occasionally maddening. If you could wave a magic wand, what do you wish they knew?

Deconstructing Your Failure

Prematurely leaving a job feels like a failed mission. It’s one thing to admit defeat but altogether castrating when someone else calls the time of death for you. Shed your sense of failure once and for all with these questions and lessons learned.

Fresh Articles that Make You Go “Hmmm”

Web 2.0 Recruiting. EQ. New Clients. Unabashed personal disclosure. Here are four fresh and thought-provoking articles from SMEs I follow and trust.

Practical Resources for Self-Employed Professionals

The freelance life is exhilarating, thrilling, and stimulating. It can also be frustrating, maddening, lonely, and shocking (at tax time). If self-employment is new to you, take a deep breath and shore up your resources. Here are some practical resources to start with…

“Social Media Made Me Do It” and Other Silly Notions

Once as separate as church and state, technology and social engagement are now inextricably bound together. The whole notion scares the bejeebees out of some people, and they’re convinced social media is bad career juju. Instead of sticking your head in the sand, use it as a career advantage.

Do Your Office Gossips Have Free Reign? A Poll.

Managers often use office chatter to gauge employee morale, but are they recycling ill will in the process?

5 Websites Every Marketer Should Visit

In order to think outside of the (proverbial) box, marketers have to get out of the box altogether. Even if you’re on a tight leash because your budget got a hatchet job, you need to breathe some fresh air and spark those neurons. Head to a coffee shop with your laptop and stir up some new ideas from these 5 websites.

Finance Meets Social Media

CFOs are human too. In fact, they’re funny, dynamic, and bigger risk-takers than you might think. Thanks to Twitter, right-brainers can now get up-close and personal with the elusive finance colleague.

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