It has forever irritated me that Guy Raz, host of NPR’s How I Built This likes to ask his guests:“How much of your success do you attribute to luck, or just hard work?” Raz has interviewed famous entrepreneurs from Howard Schultz (Starbucks) to Joe Gebbia (AirBNB) to Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn). So his question makes me what to scream: […]
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This post will show you how to apply customer experience concepts perfected by Danny Meyer and AirBNB to your interview preparation. I’m listening to Danny Meyer’s book, Setting the Table, about how he built his portfolio of restaurants. As New Yorkers, you’ve probably eaten at many of them: From Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern […]
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This is the year that we’re turning the lens on unethical workplace behavior, tearing down subtle double standards across gender, age and race. There’s #MeToo and Time’s Up. In October, NYC passed a law that makes it illegal to ask for salary history with the goal of correcting pay inequality. Further back, there was widely-read […]
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In this Washington Post article from Masha Rumer, she recounts the challenges she faced returning to work after taking time off to raise her daughter. Once upon a time, I was a fan of job interviews. That all changed after I’d switched careers, had a baby and decided to spend the first year at home […]
Read More ›My dive into the notion of circadian rhythms and sleep chronotypes started with the desire to be more productive. Specifically, to avoid hours of brain fog where I would muscle my way through an activity that required sharp, focused thinking… only to find later that I could accomplish the same in a nano-second if my brain was turned […]
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I spent much of my life following one piece of advice, only to figure out that it needed some updating. Part 1: The First Piece of Advice I Received Was Incomplete One night I was in trouble with my parents, for showering with the neighbor kid or something like that. I had an endless capacity […]
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It’s 2011. You have the opportunity to lead strategy for one of the earliest brands to embrace social at their AOR. They are #alreadywinning, and it’s sure to be heady and high-profile. Or, you can roll the dice on a social media newbie and their privately-held, 25-person PR agency. Maybe they’ll be convinced that social […]
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