Hi Career Besties, Wow it has been a busy weekend for me! I can finally say we are close to the finish line when it comes furnishing our house but I think it’s a lifelong journey when it comes to…
Every photographer knows that your talent behind the camera doesn’t automatically mean your business runs smoothly. You’re working hard every day scheduling shoots, handling emails, and following up with clients, yet somehow, everything still feels misaligned. I get it. It’s…
I created this sub-publication to share roles that might be interesting to my coaching and workshop clients. Mostly one job a day, mostly remote, mostly hiring for other roles as well, and always interesting. Excerpt: Monarch came out of private…
September 2012. First time in Europe. England, the birthplace of indie. One night in London, I had one of the most memorable moments of my life. I was coming back from an indie party I had found on Facebook. Public…
A high vaccination rate is the foundation of any pandemic policy, but further protection is still needed. From an economic perspective, that protection comes from more investment in healthcare and air quality, which now seem essential complements to vaccines and…
When COVID shuttered schools around the world in 2020, the way teachers delivered their lessons and students did their classwork changed over night. As one Boston-based secondary school student wrote in a recent case study, “bedrooms turned into school classrooms,…
If one possibly positive thing came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the impetus it gave to letting people work from home. Many see working from home as benefiting women workers. The logic is they can combine a career…
The first national study of working arrangements in Australia since government work-from-home directions were lifted shows post-pandemic office life is going to be dramatically different to what existed before. Our survey of 1,421 knowledge workers – essentially anyone doing computer-based…
In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many experienced professionals have never learned more than the rudimentary basics of email, web search and Microsoft…
Visible teamwork and trust When we work remotely, it is possible for trust to suffer, but we can use the principles of Visible Teamwork to build and maintain trust in each other and the systems we adopt. However, it is…
