Lea Woodward co-founded Kinetiva with her husband, Jonathan, to help entrepreneurs find their own path in life. Her projects have since garnered international media attention. Woodward talks about how she went from working a …
Career Strategies
Q&A: Marc Ostrofsky on How He Got Rich … ‘Click’
The Internet has been good to Marc Ostrofsky. He has made more than $50 million in the past 20 years as an online entrepreneur, and his current online companies net over $75 million annually. You might suppose that someone with …
Economic Doom, By the Numbers
Unemployment, misery, workplace dissatisfaction, the disappearing American Dream, forecasts of another Great Depression … Yikes!
Workplace Purgatory: Hating the Job, But Reluctant to Quit
Overworked and poorly paid, today’s workers increasingly wish they could march up to the boss and drop the classic line, “Take this job and shove it.” Given high unemployment rates and the uncertainties in the economy, however, …
Top 10 Personal Finance Books
In the five years that I’ve written about personal finance, I’ve amassed a huge library of books about money, most of which are very similar to each other. But a handful stand out from the crowd. Last weekend, I thinned my …
How I Did It: Dan Schawbel on Becoming a Personal Branding Expert
The founder of Millennial Branding talks about establishing his position as the personal branding guru for Gen-Y.
One Reason Why Companies Aren’t Hiring? They’re Buying Equipment
A front-page story in today’s New York Times offers an intriguing reason as to why unemployment continues: companies are investing in equipment instead of people. It’s the most significant disparity between the two in three decades.
We All Need to Feel Valued (Especially at Work), Right Loyal Readers?
Business Insider recently ran a piece by Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, on how “the need to feel valued at work is as important as the need for food.” Well, kind of.
Private K-12 Programs Decline in Popularity. Smart Move?
The United States Department of Education‘s The Condition of Education 2011 report confirms a trend that anecdotal evidence has suggested for some time: private schools for children from pre-K through high school are declining in …
Q&A: Counselor Lynn Berger on Shifting Careers
Some people turn to counselors when they’re thinking about a second career. Lynn Berger is one of them. For years she’s been helping people decide whether to pursue a completely new field. But a lot of times, changing …
How I Did It: Aaron Patzer on Creating Mint.com
The Mint.com founder talks about some of the challenges he faced while building his business.
College Offers Degree in Multi-level Marketing (a.k.a. Pyramid Selling!)
Mocking students who choose impractical majors is a popular pastime in the blogosphere; HolyTaco.com has a list of the Top 10 Most Worthless College Majors, with fields like Music Therapy, English Literature, and Latin landing on …