Manager or Mentor?
Two millennials walk into the office. (Not a joke, sorry!). The first sits down at his desk, opens up Outlook to peruse through emails that came in overnight before waving good morning to his manager, grabbing a …
Beers With The Boss
Stop me if this sounds familiar: you’re at a company happy hour, enjoying your second or third beer and discussing how the Dallas Cowboys will knock themselves out of the playoffs this year. You’re having a …
What’s In A Name?
Job titles are one of the most subjective labels that we receive in our lifetime. They are bestowed upon us by others at a rate that we largely don’t control, and they allow other people to form opinions of …
Go West, Young Man!
On a recent trip to California, I was informed multiple times that as of last month, California edged out France to become the fifth largest economy in the world. Last year California’s GDP grew 4.1%, and the list of …
Gotta Connect ‘Em All!
There may be no greater commercial symbol of the 90’s generation than Pokemon. And thanks to the recent USA release of Pokemon GO, the little pocket monsters that so many of today’s millennials sought to befriend and train are …
Cuddled of Coddled?
If you had to boil down anti and pro-millennial sentiments into a single word each, you could get pretty close to understanding either camp’s perspective with the words “cuddled” and “coddled” respectively. Cuddled is the easier of …
Meetings…Why Did It Have To Be Meetings?
For Indiana Jones it was snakes; for me it has always been meetings. They’re long, they’re uncomfortable, and nothing ever seems to actually get done. Yet, from the Fortune 500 company to the newest start-up in …
I’m Chill Man…You Know, For the Most Part
Whether you’re preparing to climb up the side of a mountain or preparing to walk through the main lobby on your first day of your first real job, nerves are something that each of us has to …
Stop. Drop. Next Payroll
In my last year of college the most common thing I heard from my peers when they would describe their career plans to either a parent or a professor was something like, “Yeah, I’m going to …