Many young professionals and mid-career changers are leaving lucrative fields to find more meaningful work. They say their jobs don’t seem to matter; I’ve worked with hundreds of lawyers who don’t feel like their work is important or useful to others. In many cases, they’re not exaggerating.
Frans de Waal, renowned primatologist, gives an elegant talk [...]

 
Part 3.  You Don’t Have to Fake it Anymore
The Great Recession of 2010 is wielding the axe, if you feel like a fraud—beware.  No matter what field you’re in, it’s getting harder to fake an interest in your work.   Bobbi knew for a decade that she wasn’t cut out for accounting. Her boss was even frank [...]

Is the United States ready to compete for the world’s best jobs?  In a study comparing the US to the world’s top 40 industrialized nations, the US ranked 40th or dead last in “rate of change in innovation capacity” over the last decade.  In other words, we’re far behind the power curve when it comes to investing in our country’s future.  While we were playing [...]