I’ve never been a big believer in Feng Shui, but I do think your office layout has a certain bearing on both your position in the company and your general demeanor. My old boss, for example, used only lamplight and conducted all his meetings at a round table in his (...)

Whether its athletes, musicians or high powered executives, from the outside it seems that the most successful people appear to have an inhuman ability to stay self motivated. Douglas Walker and Steven Sorkin wrote a great book called “A-Ha! Performance, Building and Managing a Self-Motivated Workforce.” The authors claim (...)

The only thing I knew about entrepreneurship when I joined Brazen Careerist was that it was going to be risky, more than I could have ever imagined during my time in Corporate America. In hindsight, I was probably ill-prepared to make such a big commitment. Would I have made (...)

This is the second in a series of posts discussing how Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae applies to recruiting Generation Y. In short, the rules for marketing have changed. But the number one problem in corporate America is recruiting, not marketing. What I’ve come to realize is that (...)

I’m going to be perfectly blunt, I hate networking. I know, I know, as a millennial I’m supposed to be a social butterfly, someone who can walk right up to a complete stranger and initiate a conversation about anything from the weather to the price of grain in Micronesia. However, (...)