Posted in Career Mentor, Mentoring on Jul 10th, 2009
When we were growing-up your intelligence (IQ) was your main asset: Your parents touted you for how much smarter you were than your siblings, in spite of the fact that this invidious comparison rubbed your siblings the wrong way and that they resented you for it; in school you were the first to raise your [...]
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Posted in Career Tips on Apr 18th, 2009
In achieving career success the common misconception is that you have to be a top performer at your job. Although this is true during the early stages of a career where you are an individual contributor, how you are measured in later stages of your career may be entirely different. In the individual-contributor role the [...]
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Posted in Career Repositioning on Feb 4th, 2009
After being at a job for a period of time and getting good performance reviews, most expect to be promoted. Expectants are often disappointed when they suddenly see a peer or an outsider who just “waltzed through” getting promoted in their stead, creating a fallout that can put their otherwise promising career into a downward [...]
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