ETSPosts by Bryan Zaslow
Forget Networking — Expand Your Network!
There’s a couple of things about networking I want to say right off the bat: 1. Nobody likes networking. 2. It doesn’t accomplish what you think it does anyway. There are hundreds of articles written every year about how to make the most of those mix-and-mingle events. But none of the advice — Stand near…
Read MoreThe Importance of Critical Thinking to Successful Leadership
There’s a crisis brewing in the business world, but almost nobody has been paying attention to it. More and more evidence points to a lack of critical thinking skills in today’s youngest aspiring leaders down to today’s college graduates. The Wall Street Journal reported that after four years of classes, students at some of the country’s…
Read MoreHow a Boss Parts Ways with an Employee
Having to part ways with an employee because they don’t measure up is one of the toughest parts of any manager and leader’s job. But what’s worse is having to let someone go who is a real asset to the company. It happens all the time. Your organization merges two divisions, eliminates an entire department,…
Read MoreLeaving a Job without Burning that Bridge
What do LeBron James, Darrelle Revis, and Ken Griffey Jr. all have in common? Even if you’re not a sports fan, you probably remember that LeBron famously returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers, leading his former team to a winning season. After a victory in Super Bowl XLIX with the New England Patriots, Revis returned to…
Read MoreThe Recipe for a Return to Normal
A year ago, the headlines were dire. “New York City is Dead Forever,” read one of the most memorable ones. More recently, another one was slightly more hopeful: “New York Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support.” There were plenty of predictions that the city — and cities in general, for that matter…
Read MoreHow to Survive Employment’s ‘Perfect Storm’
When they look at the country’s economic situation, most experts are seeing only sunny skies. The commercial and industrial sectors are roaring back, the number of available jobs is hitting new records, jobless claims continue to fall, consumer demand is at all time highs — and the list goes on. But for a lot of…
Read MoreSeize More Than Just the Day
I thought that nothing could be worse than that moment two years ago when doctors informed me that my son, Ithan, had a brain tumor. As a parent, nothing on earth is more important to me than my children and we were completely blindsided by the news. It was utterly devastating but in hindsight this…
Read MoreLead by Example: The Importance of Accountability
Accountability. It may not sound like the most glamorous of business concepts. But in my experience, accountability is one of those few make-or-break traits that defines true good leadership. Simply put, a workplace without accountability cannot succeed. It needs to be instilled in the company’s culture and values. Why? Think of it as one of…
Read MoreWake Up! We’re in a ‘Digital Pandemic’
Have you noticed that everyone around you — the colleagues you work with on a daily basis, the clients that you’ve had for years, and even your closest friends and family members — have seemed stressed out lately? All of us have dealt with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, but recently many of us have…
Read MoreHow to Hire for Tomorrow
If you’re running a business, you’re either constantly looking toward the future, or you’re a dinosaur. Yet companies that are constantly innovating their business plans to capture shifts in technology and the market are content to stick with a hiring plan from a bygone era — and then scratching their heads when they cannot replace…
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