If you’re one of those people who just can’t get a email returned about a job opening, this could be your chance. They’re asking for entries. They want to hire someone. There’s nothing to lose.
You can’t win, economy.
The more you swing, the stronger I get.
Biding my time.
Waiting until I can barely feel your jabs.
And your body blows feel like pixie taps.
Are you ready?
‘Cause here it comes.
You may be up in points.
But it’s a 12-round fight.
And I’m about to knock your ass out.
When we were kids we said, “When I grow up, I want to BE a _____.”
Now that we’re adults, we ask, “What do you DO for work?”
What happened between the ages of 8 and 30 that we stopped wanting to “be” something and started “doing” work?
Be implies self. Be is who we are. Do is [...]
I want to do something meaningful like Clark Moss, who got axed from his job as an executive creative director and started his own social-responsibility business.
I want to be at peace like Jonathan Fields, who left his big time Wall St. lawyer gig, became a yogi, then became a small business consultant.
I want to create doodads [...]
It was a tough decision to write this post.
I’m someone who believes that when you think and act positively and with hope, those things come back to you. Likewise, the converse is true. We all know people with a cloud of doom over their heads. They expect their lives to suck so their lives suck so [...]
You know who to reach out to. Your former co-workers, producers, recruiters and anyone else who may know something that you don’t. This is how new people show up at a new gigs on a Monday after losing their old job the week before.
I’ve spent a lot of time lately stump-talking about the necessity for careers to be defined inward out instead of outward in. You aren’t a copywriter or lawyer or bookkeeper. You are Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan, with ambitions, ideas, and talents that make you uniquely Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan.
Sure, it’s easier at cocktail [...]
Back in 1998, Sally Hogshead visited the Creative Circus to prepare a bunch of us advertising plebes for the harsh reality that awaited upon graduation. Part of her presentation was to go through the pages and pages and pages of headlines she wrote just to land on the precious few that would become her Pencil-winning [...]
In the late 1800s, many poor, resourceful women would repurpose cotton flour sacks and turn them into quilts and clothing. By the mid 1920s, the practice became so popular that flour manufacturers started making their sacks with attractive colors and patterns, essentially creating a new market for their commodity.
This brings up an interesting way to [...]
The following is the second of two posts by Michael Bungay Stanier, senior partner at Box of Crayons and author of Do More Great Work
Four questions
I start almost every workshop I run asking the participants to score themselves between 1 (low) and 7 (high) on these three questions:
How active and engaged do you plan to be today?
How [...]
