I don’t know about you, but I rarely feel like I’m 22. I do, however, work with a lot of 22-year-olds who are smart, interesting, dynamic, and absurdly high-energy.
While it depresses me they don’t understand my Saved by the Bell references, their ideas and achievements are truly remarkable.
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There are a lot of classics in the world of employee rewards. Money. Time off. Restaurant gift certificates. Trips. All oldies, but goodies.
Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more questions about earned, owned, and paid media. Continue Reading
I remember my very first day of work at my very first startup. I was employee number 22, and my manager was eagerly showing me the org chart he had recently put together.
There I was, at the bottom of the chart: Content Associate. Above me was my manager, above my manager was a VP, and above the VP was our CEO & COO.
Holiday shopping season is here — and this year, retailers predict Americans will spend almost $617 billion in November and December.
It’s no surprise that a lot of the big spending happens in the days following Thanksgiving. Every year, it seems Americans are adding yet another big sales day. On this year’s menu:
Time is our scarcest resource, yet we spend so much of it doing things that are unproductive — usually without meaning to.
The average person wastes 31 hours in unproductive meetings according to Atlassian. And a McKinsey study shows we spend an average of 13 hours per week reading, writing,
Let’s face it: Executing a successful marketing plan requires time, energy, and money. And with so many different facets of marketing to consider — branding and creative, product marketing, hosting events, etc. — your marketing budget can disappear unbelievably fast.
Ever found yourself scratching your head with a depleted budget at the end of the month, quarter, or year?
The holiday season means a lot of travel for just about everyone, but for some, the holiday travel schedule is actually a bit of a break. I talked to some jet-setting influencers whose frantic travel schedules have them on the road for months out of the year attending conferences, visiting clients, and going to meetings. These are their top tips for navigating travel — whether for business or pleasure — like a pro.
A few hours after giving my session at INBOUND 2014 on how to build an inbound team, a colleague of mine told me there was one slide in my presentation that caused around 80% of the audience to stand up and take pictures with their phones.
Most job seekers’ cover letters are merely an introduction. An accurate overview of experience highlights and a way to request to be moved forward based upon your qualifications.
And then there are the other kinds of cover letters. The ones chock full of TMI, or that generally just miss the mark.
If things like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, and Movember have taught us anything, it’s that there is immense power in the creativity of inspired people to do good. As #GivingTuesday approaches and charities are prepping for the biggest fundraising month of the year there are some simple things you can give your supporters to empower them and make it easy to fundraise for you this December.
I’m a big planner. I like to think of all the things I want to do — this month, this year, eventually — and figure out how to make them happen.
For a while, most of those things didn’t actually happen, though. (I guess you could say I was more of a dreamer than a planner.) But as I learned more about effective goal setting, more
The freedom — and the obligation — to be on email at work all day is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, if you have a question for Joe in HR, you can usually expect him to have read your email within the next hour or two. (Whether heContinue Reading
When we’re really young, it feels like we can’t wait to get to a certain age — when we hit that magic year, suddenly new things unlock. We can drive! We can vote! We can have an alcoholic beverage! All of these “benchmarks” in life are thrilling to approach and pass.
