Mar 26, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career
What is the future of work? How about the future of education? Across the news, education reform and the way we learn seem to be undergoing a slow overhaul–or it still desperately needs one. The future of work is constantly shifting as we untangle ourselves...
Mar 12, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Professional Development
What is your job? Or, more importantly, what is your job not? One evening, late on a Friday night, I asked myself what I was accomplishing, and what I was achieving. Who am I working for? What’s the bigger picture? How am I making this happen? Sometimes, to...
Feb 27, 2012 | Communication, Crafting Your Career
Perhaps it was my foray into Twitter and Google+ this past year, but I’ve found myself simultaneously overjoyed by the opportunities and connections, and also, now, a bit weary of repetition. Some of the same themes, ideas, and mantras crept up time and again,...
Feb 3, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Motivation
Hiking through urban Taipei, Taiwan as part of a landscape project. You’re probably heard the phrase before: When the going gets tough … the tough get going. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, I want to head home, curl up in my favorite blankets, turn...
Jan 16, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Life, Organization+Strategy, Professional Development
Sometimes my Grandpa says I work too hard. I try to tell him that my work is not the same as work used to be. I work late. I work early. I take breaks in the middle of the day. He points to the clock. It’s 6’o’clock, he says, wobbling over his cane and tapping on the...
Dec 20, 2011 | Annual Review, Crafting Your Career, Motivation, Things-That-Could-Turn-Into-Books
I’m sitting on an airplane, staring out the window, reflecting on the year past and how quickly it seems to have gone by, and thinking about all the adventures I’ve been on. December is a time of pause: we can stop and look back, and, if we really do our...
