What are we to make of buyout king Steve Schwarzman’s insanely over-the-top 60th birthday party at the Park Avenue Armory in New York last night?
First, it just sounded really unpleasant. Five hundred mostly fair-weather friends (nobody has 500 real friends, and the Schwarzman guest list seemed to lean heavily toward the fake and the …
A loyal reader in McLean sent me a link to this article by Alec MacGillis in last Thursday’s Washington Post. It begins:
To hear some activists and local officials in Virginia tell it, the key to slowing rampant growth is to follow the lead of many Maryland counties: Ban development where roads and schools are crowded.
But here is what
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My conversation with Til Hazel took place, appropriately enough, in the parking lot of a brand new shopping center just off Highway 7 (the Harry Byrd Highway) in Loudoun County. I was there working on my column in this week’s Time about the staggering mass prosperity of Loudoun and neighboring Fairfax County, and while the column ended …
We read books and take workshops and practice in front of mirrors to look smart in a job interview. But what if the person conducting the interview is a dolt?
This occurred to me as I read a listserv discussion today among my fellow Asian American Journalists Association members. One member had recounted her cousin’s encounter with an …
My workplace is pretty unsexy. The glass-doored offices and the gray decor and buttoned-up coworkers just don’t do it for me.
Most offices are downright sterile, aren’t they? Yet workers around the world apparently manage to get something on amid their furry walled cubicles. Excuse me, but I find this totally ew. (Unless it happens on …
Valentine’s Day is coming up. I know because my daughter–along with recruiters, temp agencies, employment lawyers and even my employer–keep telling me so.
My kid, I forgive; she’s just aping her teachers, who are possibly brainwashing her so that I’ll remember to supply the cupcakes. In the spirit of Cupid, I also forgive the PR folks: …
For fans of my post on the Bush budget a few days back (I’m talking to you, Ezra), it’s going multimedia this weekend as I talk about the topic on CNN’s In the Money (1 p.m. ET Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday).
My second Time column is now online. Here’s how it starts:
When the Census Bureau announced last August that northern Virginia’s Loudoun County had become the nation’s most affluent, with a median household income of $98,483, it was something of a shock to locals. Loudoun is far from exclusive: a third of its 255,000 residents arrived in
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I had lunch today with a blogger friend of mine. We met last spring when we both spoke on a panel of workplace reporters arranged by the Publicity Club of New York. She’s one of those people I instantly clicked with, due in part to our apparently parallel lives: we write for a living; we were both about to publish our first books; we …
So I’m down in North Carolina, at something called the Duke MBA Marketing Conference. There are some cool speakers, most entertaining among them Bob Young, who co-founded Red Hat and founded and now runs publisher (for want of a better word) Lulu. But the real stars are the Doritos kids–the ones from that Super Bowl ad.
Michelle Adams, …
Last week I blogged about the perils of corporate blogging. I cited a study, the Corporate Blogging Survey of 2005 by Backbone Media. Its lead author, John Cass–who is also author of Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging (to be published in April by Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann)–writes in with some interesting points:
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So I was ambling down the hall on my way back from the kitchen with some decaf green tea when I saw my colleague Amy Goehner packing boxes. The sight filled me with dread. A lot of people at my company are volunteering for severance packages amid rolling layoffs, and lately it seems like all my favorite coworkers are taking the …
