Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year, the time when we think about our past year and plan for our next. What do I want to repeat? What do I want to do differently? I usually start with everything I want to do differently. And the list is … [Read more...]
The Right Way to Come Back From Vacation
September 7, 2011 By 7 Comments
"Daddy, come look at our island! Quick! Before it disappears!" We were in Bluffton, South Carolina playing on a sandbar that emerges only at low tide. The sun was barely up — we had woken early to watch the sandbar disappear as the tide rose — … [Read more...]
Three Questions that Help Me Live a Fulfilling Life
August 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
I am on a plane with my wife Eleanor as we fly back from our once-a-year-without-children vacation. It was, for us, the perfect week. After years of planning vacations, we've finally figured out how to reliably create a meaningful, fun, fulfilling … [Read more...]
Friends at Work Could be Good for the Bottomline (Charlie Herman Interview on WNYC, NPR)
July 28, 2010 By
Advice For The Job Search: Spend Less Time Looking (Amy Eddings Interview on WNYC, NPR)
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Why Not Having a Plan Can Be the Best Plan of All
April 28, 2010 By
This weekend I went back to Princeton University, where I was a student over twenty years ago, to give a speech. As I traveled to the campus I remembered a single question that haunted my last few months of schooling: now what? I had no good … [Read more...]
Diversify Your Self
October 21, 2009 By
Recently, a woman working for France Telecom sent an email to her father. Then she walked over to the window on the fourth floor of her office building, opened it, stepped through, and jumped to her death. The email read: "I have decided to kill … [Read more...]
Prepare Yourself for the Next Downturn
August 12, 2009 By
I started my consulting business 11 years ago with a laptop computer in a living room. It grew quickly. The first year I made more money than I had in the previous three combined, the second year I doubled that, and by the third year I began to … [Read more...]
