by lewsauder | Aug 6, 2013 | Career Management
I once worked for a consulting firm that did a lot of college recruiting. After our recruiting department had gone through the campus visit process, pre-screening interviews and had filtered out the most promising candidates, we would invite the remaining candidates...
by lewsauder | Jul 22, 2013 | Career Management
We continue to hear mixed messages regarding unemployment. In one month, the Unemployment rate goes down, but it’s because more people gave up and left the market. Another month it goes down, but not as much as expected. It’s hard to tell the good news from the bad...
by lewsauder | Jul 15, 2013 | Career Management
Have you ever worked so hard that you didn’t get anything done? The elusive banana The monkey’s dilemma is a well known story about how hunters figured out a way to capture monkeys in the jungle. They would place some food that appealed to monkeys, like peanuts or a...
by lewsauder | Jul 9, 2013 | Career Management
As a consultant, you get a unique array of seating arrangements. It’s rare for a client to give their consultants a corner office with a view. About the only corner office you’ll get is the cubicle in a high traffic area. In most cases, a consultant is seated in a...
by lewsauder | Jul 1, 2013 | Career Management
Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of sitting on both sides of the management desk. I’ve managed a lot of people and in the process, mismanaged some of them. I’d like to think I’ve learned from some of my mistakes. On the flipside, I’ve been managed and...
by lewsauder | Jun 24, 2013 | Career Management
During the late 1990s, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan coined the term Irrational Exuberance to denote the absurdity of over-enthusiasm investors had regarding stocks – particularly dot-com stocks – at the time. Unnecessary anxiety A management approach...
