As your career progresses, you may need to lengthen the timelines on your projects and converse more with your boss about strategy instead of execution, writes Danielle Merfeld, a technology director at GE Global Research. Embrace the role of a coach and encourage others to become coaches themselves.
Taking a year off from your job can help you gain perspective on your career and acquire experiences you can showcase on your resume, experts say. Sabbaticals can also help you develop the soft skills that employers covet for management positions.
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The best way to remember a person's name is to write it down in your smartphone or a notepad, writes Nicolas Cole. "It's not cheating. It's called being resourceful," Cole writes.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign legislation to create a state-run retirement plan for nearly 7 million private workers who don't have an employer-sponsored plan. The law will require employers to enroll employees and deduct money from their checks, although the employees can opt out.
To bring any idea to the marketplace requires not just an original product or service, but the commitment to do the work even when it's not glamorous, writes Valeria Maltoni. Instead of rushing ahead with a project, Maltoni counsels leaders to give themselves the time and space they need to tweak their product or service and allow for creativity.
The Honolulu Civil Beat has hired Ron Hochuli, 72, as an unpaid intern, saying the longtime Hawaii resident brings valuable community experience and fresh insight. If the experiment succeeds, the publication will create a fellowship based on newsroom-retiree collaboration.
