My husband loves being a househusband. But it hasn't come without some pain.

In the right context, cautious people may become daredevils, new research shows.

As anyone who has had the misfortune to work for a micromanager knows, success only makes the manager worse. A few lessons from micromanagers through history.

Personal aptitudes and attitudes like being a good listener and communicator strongly influence likability and workplace relationships.

It’s easy to give out advice to someone you think you might be able to help whether it’s coming to their aid during personal crises or giving them a hand with their resume.  You may find it easy to help others when what you really may need is the ability to help yourself.  It may be easy for you to recognize what’s not working when it comes to someone else’s life, but do you hold the same level of scrutiny when it comes to your own?

Why does it always seem we know how to fix someone else’s problems or see clearly how the other person needs to handle a situation yet when it comes to our own life, we suddenly have blinders on?  Maybe being too close to a situation helps or hurts your ability to see clearly when it comes to your own life.  Handling your own affairs the way you would handle your best friend is a gift you probably never realized you could give yourself if you just opened yourself up and really tried. When it comes to your career, you may not have all the answers but try treating yourself the same way you would treat your best friend by providing yourself with honest and thoughtful feedback even if you may not feel like you are in a position to hear it.

Having the courage to take yourself on the way you would take on a friend in need may make you your own best friend and give you the kind of sage advice you’ve always been after.  You know what you want even though you may not be in the best position to hear it especially coming from yourself.  Practicing what you preach to others is the first step in recognizing that you do have a perspective on what matters to you and how to get ahead even if you can’t help stumbling along the way. Practicing what you preach to others gives you a sense of knowing what works from what doesn’t and puts you in a position of really being of value to achieving your own successes as you would be in helping others achieve theirs.

You do know what it takes to make you happy and successful in your career whether you are just starting out or are well on your way towards reaching your career goals. You have no problem sharing your wisdom, insights and perspective when it comes to helping others reach their goals so it’s no time to hold back when it comes to taking some of your own advice.  It’s never easy forging ahead on your own even though you may like to live vicariously through another’s efforts, but knowing you can and will move forward by heeding your own advice should give you the courage you need to make the right decisions for yourself.  Learning to become your own best friend may be the best advice you can offer yourself and maybe even sharing it with others.

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Nearly every facet of corporate life has gone digital, so corporate boards are scrambling to recruit newcomers to advise on strategies for mobile devices and social media.

Daphne Koller, co-founder of online education provider Coursera, discusses where teachers fit into the model for massive, open, online classes.

A colleague of mine recently said as we were discussing the traffic problems of late in Santa Monica, “Sometimes you’ve got to go in the wrong direction in order to move ahead.”  Although never so true as you try to circumvent traffic and find a faster route to get home, it can mean needing the same approach with your career search or professional advancement as well.  Finding that you always follow the same route in your job search or how you approach your career advancement opportunities might mean that you are not progressing any faster than you like.

It’s hard to imagine that by moving backwards you might actually be moving ahead.  Counter-intuitive as this might seem, movement of any kind usually means you are progressing towards a goal.  Stagnation in you career means sudden death under any circumstances.  It’s nice to think you know which direction will lead to the fastest route with your career choices.  It may not always be the case when you are for instance in career transition, or are a recent graduate or having trouble navigating the corporate ladder towards a promotion.  It’s okay to take a lesser position if you’ve been out of work for sometime trying to get your foot back into a company or a particular field.  Taking an internship for example might not be the worst thing as you wait for a job offer to come through for the position you really want. Trying to figure out your next career move when you are in a holding pattern at work because you’ve not been promoted might mean it’s time to try something new.

Having the ability to move backward in order to move forward helps you stay in the flow even if it takes you a little longer to get where you ultimately want to go. It’s always hard to know if you are doing all it takes to make progress in your career especially when you seem to be moving in the wrong direction.  Remember there are no wrong directions or choices when it comes to making a decision about your career or your life. As long as you keep making decisions and focus on the possibilities of what you are after, you are naturally on the right road towards success.

Finding the right balance between what you want and what you are willing to make happen does not always mean the decision will be an easy one. It doesn’t matter how difficult it is for you to get where you are going, it just matters that you keep moving in any direction that seems to take you towards a clear path for getting ahead. You might be surprised what you find along the way but you never know the new and different opportunities you may have overlooked had you not taken that left turn in the road. Finding your true north doesn’t always mean you have to travel north, it just means you should follow your path of least resistance.

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The right type of pressure can boost daily performance. Key ingredients in transforming the bad into good: taking more control and finding better support.

A handful of new facilities are targeting freelance workers who want to work in an office with colleagues and need child care.

Companies are equipped to handle job fatigue among employees, but what happens when burnout hits the boss?

Pierre Beaudoin, who took over plane and train maker Bombardier from his father in 2008, hopes the global company can hold true to its roots as a family-run operation

“I’m creative, I haven’t had to use a resume since 1996!”  Well that’s great for you but let us all in on your little secret to success!  Just because you’ve never had to formally interview for a job or have had your next gig lined up just by making a few calls, then it’s time to look around because your luck may be about to run out.  You may have had a great run at finding your next job without much help from least of all, a resume, but it may be time to take a trip on the wild side and do something good for yourself and for the person who does not yet know all the wonderful things about you!

A resume does not need to be a painful process and it certainly doesn’t mean that just because you’ve gotten away with not having one for so long that you eventually won’t need one.  Even if you are a creative executive with an impressive portfolio that drags on forever, it certainly does not mean you don’t need a resume. Keep in mind, not everyone may have seen that film or watched that television show you were working on.  It’s okay to have a long credit list but acting like everyone who reads it should instantly recognize any obscure title or independent production company you worked for is well, clueless.

It’s nice to know you don’t have to work to hard to get your next gig but what if something unexpected came along, something that you were not even looking for but sounds like something you’ve always wanted to do. Why not be prepared and have your professional resume ready to go?  What if that job didn’t come through your normal channels and you were tapped through LinkedIn or it was an industry referral that passed your name along because they thought you’d be “perfect” for the job. Or, you get a call from a recruiter or agent or maybe directly from the company and they ask you for a resume or a bio and you say, “I haven’t needed one since 1996!”  Click.  That’s what most people would do or want to do when you make that kind of an announcement.

Don’t think for a minute the person on the other end of the phone or email thinks this is cute, clever or even professional.  You need to write your professional history down, it doesn’t need to be long or full of bravado it just needs to simply tell the story of who you are, what you’ve done and where you’ve worked.  Keep it simple and to the point and be ready to hand it over to someone who offers to help.  Don’t make the hiring manager, recruiter or person interested in interviewing you do all the work.  You might be the perfect person for the job but if you are not prepared, no one is going to wait for you to get ready.  You may think you are a household name because you have an impressive list of credentials don’t assume everyone knows who you are.

The next time you are lucky enough to get a call or email out of the blue asking you to come in for an interview don’t embarrass yourself or someone else by stating that you are too good to put your professional life on paper.  Because if you don’t want to waste the time and effort for the job someone else surely will and will likely get the job you were not ready or able to accept.

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B-school admissions officers are increasingly trying to assess applicants' EQ—or emotional intelligence quotient—to decide which would-be M.B.A. students could be tomorrow's business stars.

Amazon's growing popularity among business-school students keeps Jennifer Boden, director of global university programs, busy. She speaks about assessing candidates and why M.B.A.s deserve their salaries.

Firms are thinking up new ways to encourage interactions among employees, going so far as to squeeze workers into smaller spaces and install trivia games on elevators.

As professors themselves become bigger brands, firms are reaching out to the instructors directly instead of going through the schools.

As more classrooms roll out universal math and reading standards, critics are pressing officials to slow their implementation.

Redfin, a Seattle-based online real-estate brokerage, is Glenn Kelman's attempt to change how people buy homes. He says it is easier for a private company like his than a public one to take risks that promise a big payoff.

Navigation systems have been all the rage when it comes to mapping out your travel destinations.  But what can you use to map out your career destination? Career-pathing is a term used to do just that-map out a course or plan of action that will take you from point A to point B and help you best assess your career choices and options. When you use career-pathing properly, you not only set a clear and defined course for yourself, but you help remove the guesswork in what you want to be when you grow up.

In order to properly employ the career-pathing technique, it would help if you have a general sense of which direction you’d like to go in your current job, future job or when you graduate from school.  This involves not only understanding your unique skills, experience, knowledge and personal attributes but how you can apply them to the job opportunity you seek.  There are many tools available to you by way of career assessments that can help you map out your career trajectory in a more systematic approach.  Career assessments such as DISC, Berkman, PDI all offer ways for you to calibrate your career so as to help you better navigate not only your career choices but what work environment you would most thrive and excel in.

If you are already employed and want to figure out the best way to advance within your organization, inquire with your supervisor or Human Resources on which plan may be available to you and if the company offers any kind of career-coaching or assessments designed to help you in your current position.  If you are graduating or are in a transition, making an investment in yourself by hiring a career coach or purchasing an assessment can only help you have a better understanding of which path best suits you.  It’s hard enough to apply for a job time and again or work on your resume or portfolio or bio in the hopes you’ll catch someone’s attention and get a job offer.  Those odds become tougher these days when the landscape is filled with equally qualified candidates all vying for the same job.

Investing in yourself by reaching out to your network of professional contacts, getting feedback on how well you are doing in your career, and seeking out counsel from your human resources alumni office or will help you figure out what you need to do in order to move ahead.  There is nothing wrong in asking for help just be clear on what your goal is and you’ll make the right choices in moving your career forward.

Taking time now to map out a course of action when it comes to figuring out the next steps in your career path is not a wasted exercise.  Knowing ahead of time what it’s going to take, what necessary skills you need, what experience you may be lacking will help you to best lay out a plan that will move you closer towards achieving the kind of success you dream about in your career.

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