A primer on projects, programs, and portfolios
This very basic article attempts to explain the difference between projects, programs, and portfolios. Useful for the uninitiated but otherwise can be skipped.
Content: Article | Author: Tom Mochal | Source: “TechRepublic” | Subjects: Career, Project Management
Your career and organisational culture
“My thesis is that we are in transition from the Traditional, through the Transitional and into the rapidly emerging Transformational organizational culture model. To succeed, many managers and professionals will have to adapt to the inconsistencies associated with working in Mixed Culture organizations. The ability to read these mixed signals and to build effective power and influence support systems is crucial to maximizing career and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: “TheWorkingManager.com” | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
We all know it’s true: Managing up is as important as managing down. That’s especially true when you are starting a relationship with a new boss. HBS professor Michael Watkins discusses the importance of clearly defining goals with your superior.
Content: Article | Author: Michael Watkins | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Career, Personal Development
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
What is success to you? HBS professor Howard Stevenson offers insights from research he and HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash are conducting on the meaning of success for high achievers.
Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Career, Personal Development
Hitting the (Political) Wall
Is there anything you can do when the office becomes a cold and lonely place? Yes, indeed, say these executives-and they wish they had.
Content: Article | Author: Phyllis Gail Doloff | Source: “Across the Board (ATB)” | Subject: Career
How to Work a Room
We tag along as an expert networker demonstrates the art of the schmooze.
Content: Article | Authors: Diane Darling, Jeff Ousborne | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subjects: Career, Personal Development
Network Your Way to the Top: ‘Working It
You’ve handed out stacks of business cards, called all your contacts, and mailed reams of cover letters. Guess what, pal: So has everybody else. That’s why we’ve asked the pros for networking tips and tricks that’ll help you leave the name-tag-wearing, resumé-waving hordes in the dust.
Content: Article | Authors: Alexis Offen, Mickey Butts | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subjects: Career, Personal Development | Industry: Other
Why Job Searching is the Second Most Popular Activity on the Internet
With more than 20 million people registered on the monster.com job search site, it’s clear that we are a workforce on the move. In a recent executive education session, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, explained how a dramatically different labor market is changing not just the way people are hired and fired, but how they view their jobs, their employers and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: “Knowledge@Wharton” | Subjects: Career, Human Resources
Career Switching Tips: A Brand New Old You
“What is an MBA, anyway? A degree, of course. A door opener, to be sure. A ticket to the top, perhaps. But for some 75 percent of B-school students, it’s also a new start—the first step in a journey from one field to another. And more often than not, that new field is consulting, banking, or marketing…Our guide to spinning the career switch—compiled with the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Paul Scott | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subject: Career
How To Train Leaders For a Global Perspective
How do managers hone the skills they need to survive and thrive in different geographical and cultural environments? In this excerpt from a new book, experts Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck offer some answers. PLUS: Q&A.
Content: Article | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subject: Career
Inside Three Real Interviews: The Hot Seat
Three MBAs. Three interviews. The razor-sharp recruiter who scored them. And what you can learn from their mistakes.
Content: Article | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subject: Career | Industry: Investment Banking
How to Impress Recruiters: Anatomy of an Interview
What does an interview look like from the recruiter’s chair? Which answers impress? Which comments annoy? What shoots you dead? Top recruiters, career consultants, and psychologists offer shrewd tips and subtle tricks for moving from “How do you do?” to “When can you start?”
Content: Article | Authors: David Blend, Lisa Chudnofsky, Maria Spinella | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subject: Career
Cracking the Case: A Consulting Interview Primer
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to ace the cases in a consulting-firm interview. In fact, a little preparation can make solving them seem, well, elementary.
Content: Article | Author: Michael K. Norris | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
How to Write the Perfect Thank-You Note: Giving Thanks
The secrets to saying thanks the right way—and the mistakes that’ll send your missive to the shredder.
Content: Article | Author: Lisa Chudnofsky | Source: “MBA Jungle” | Subject: Career
How Do You Know When It’s Time To Go?
Everything you ever wanted to know about finding a career counselor (but didn’t think to ask).
Content: Article | Author: Ann Hornaday | Source: “Fast Company” | Subject: Career
Elite Graduate Expectations
Paul Gooderham and Odd Nordhaug gained fresh insights into the preferences of European business school students relating to their choice of job, employer and industry.
Editor’s Note: you can read the article on the web page, but for a bigger font and to get the graphics referenced, read the .pdf version instead (link on the right side of page).
Content: Article | Authors: Odd Nordhaug, Paul Gooderham | Source: “European Business Forum (EBF)” | Subjects: Career, International – Europe
Good Work
What makes the difference between a good finance environment and a great one? We asked the Association for Financial Professionals and Hackett Benchmarking & Research to help us find out. CFO’s survey of more than 100 corporations reveals best practices for financial workplaces.
Content: Article | Authors: Alix Nyberg Stuart, Roy Harris | Source: “CFO Publishing” | Subjects: Career, Finance
Smart Ways to Land Your Next Gig
The good news: You’ve found a good job in a company that’s built to last. The bad news: Lots of others are jockeying for the same position. Here are strategies to help you stand apart while everyone else is standing around.
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: “Fast Company” | Subject: Career
How to Get Senior Management Buy-in
Gaining senior management buy-in is really about finding the right balance between the soft skills (knowing how to listen to them, how to anticipate their reactions) and hard skills (rock solid analysis, irrefutable facts, etc.).
Content: Article | Author: Estelle Métayer | Source: “CEO Refresher” | Subject: Career
Five Interview Questions Prospective CEO’s Seldom Ask But Should
“It is standard wisdom to itemize and celebrate top leadership traits. That is often followed by a list of survival tips for managing the first year. Of course, both lists are offered after the fact. But neither compilation addresses before the fact. So hot and heady is the pursuit that we ignore or minimize the prospect of failure. The interview needs to be perceived as … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Irving H. Buchen | Source: “CEO Refresher” | Subject: Career