Brian Moore
The Archive
60 Seconds with Albert J. Bernstein
Broadly speaking, what are emotional vampires, and why do they suck? It’s a name I give to people with some clinical versions of personality disorders. With neuroses or psychoses, you...
60 Seconds
You say certain virtues in the workplace can be transformed into vices. How does a value become something bad? When you excuse yourself from tough self-awareness, you allow these bad...
Grand ambassadors!
For Richard A. Pomes, his fondest memory of being the public face of Fireball Whisky isn’t what people expect him to say. It wasn’t “the free booze or all the...
Office Intelligence
The duties of a CIA spy — locating terrorists, stopping nukes, collecting state secrets — aren’t a part of most people’s job description. But that doesn’t mean workers can’t learn...
60 Seconds with Gary Shapiro
How are successful businesses like black-clad Japanese assassins? The ninja is a clever, out-of-the-box, fast-moving, fast-responsive warrior. And to succeed in business today, a business or someone who works in...
60 Seconds with Nancy Collamer
What do you mean by “second-act careers”? They’re careers you can apply to your semi-retirement, geared for people over 50 who are getting to the end of their big career...
Firing lines
Anyone with any common sense knows you can lose your job by posting party photos of yourself on Facebook. But there are some lesser-known acts — also unrelated to job...
Office party on
The Rolling Stones weren’t the only ancient tradition making a return this season. After a recessionary rough patch during which they were considered either massively inappropriate or needlessly extravagant, holiday...
What about bonuses?
Chances are your boss didn’t fatten your corporate holiday card with a bonus check this year. While official figures aren’t in — and there’s always a chance that ol’ Ebenezer...
60 Seconds with Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, TV pitchman and owner of Sullivan Productions
Q: Hawking products like OxiClean has made you arguably television’s most famous pitchman. So what makes a great pitch? A: A great pitch has to be concise. It has to...
60 seconds with Nicole Williams
Q: LinkedIn recently surveyed 8,000 adults about their childhood dream jobs and the careers they ended up in. First off, what are the jobs kids most often dream about? A:...
60 seconds with Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster
Q: How do you know that women have more problems with women than with men in the workplace? Katherine Crowley: One study showed that women feel they have to compete...
60 Seconds with David Horsager
Q: Trust is good. We know this. But why is it particularly important in the workplace? A: My belief is trust is not a soft skill. It is a bottom-line...
60 Seconds with Cal Newport
Why is the nearly ubiquitous idea of following your passion bad career advice? The problem with follow-your-passion is the verb “follow” assumes you have the passion to start with. We...
Hang on to them!
Tomorrow, supervisors throughout the country will bask in the glow of National Boss Day, receiving gratitude for being managers who don’t make workers Google search “unemployment insurance” and “COBRA benefits.”...
Get time on your side!
At first blush, Robert C. Pozen doesn’t seem like an extreme kind of guy. He doesn’t BASE jump, BMX bike or bodyboard. Instead, he has simultaneously taught a full load...
Tools of the trade
Looking for a glimpse of what the workplace will look like in five years? Take your Rolodex, your desktop computer and your fax machine — and throw them in the...
Word to the working girl
It’s easy to think of Kate White as a modern-day Moses, shepherding women through the seven signs they’re ready to pull a Blake Lively, the 13 easy ways to beat...
60 Seconds with David Fishof
You don’t hear a lot of stories about accountants trashing hotel rooms. What can people learn from the rock ’n’ roll business, which appears to be the least business-like business...
60 Seconds with Bill Coplin
You say there are 10 things employers want you to learn in college. Are they stuff like calculus and literature, or are these more general skills? They’re general skills that...