Career

​Boomers everywhere are speaking up about work and retirement. If common wisdom says we should stop working around age 55 and life expectancy is now reaching the 80s, then we will spend more than 25 years “in retirement.” We need new approaches...

​Last week I read an interesting article written by Jeff Haden. Its headline asked: “Is your profession like an arranged marriage?” The article described how it feels to turn around 15 or 20 years into a career and realize that it was a path...

The one sure way I know it’s summer is the roads. People are on vacation and although traffic in Toronto never seems to get much lighter, I do notice an easing up. As a frequent commuter, I’m a traffic-watcher and have devised various tricks and strategies for beating the rush. Like all good strategies, they’re prone to failure but one of my new techniques is to get on the road later and then stay a few extra hours in the office. I usually end up working an even longer day since I start working before I leave home in the morning and often don’t leave the office until after 8, but if I can avoid the commuter crunch, I feel like a hero!

When you envision what success will mean to you, do you see yourself as a small fish trying to swim where the big fish do in fear of being eaten alive? Or do you believe that you have every right to swim where there are bigger fish? Do you see the ocean as a large, shared entity where all fish work in tandem? Yes, sometimes it is a fish eat fish world.

Business travel is often a necessity whether you work for a Fortune 500 company or own a small home based business. Only so much business can be conducted by telephone, e-mail, computer and fax. There will come a day when you need to travel for business and how you conduct yourself will make all the difference in determining your success in getting that new client or sealing the deal.