by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Dec 13, 2016 | Home Articles, Professional Development, Sin categoría, Workplace Productivity
In a world where the average employee sends and receives 122 emails per day and attends an average of 62 meetings per month, your boss or HR leadership simply doesn’t have the time or bandwidth to properly think through how best to deploy your talents moving forward....
by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Nov 23, 2016 | Home Articles, Professional Development
Emotionally agile people are winners. “They demonstrate flexibility in dealing with our fast-changing, complex world,” David writes in Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life (Avery, 2016). Access to Article
by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Nov 14, 2016 | Home Articles, Revenue Generation & Growth
One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. We can also assume that precise point forecasts are likely to be wrong. Likewise, we know that...
by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Nov 9, 2016 | Home Articles, Professional Development
Most professionals build their network over time through proximity — people from your business school study group, or colleagues from your current company or past jobs. You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking,...
by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Nov 3, 2016 | Home Articles, Professional Development
In the current environment of increasing demands and shrinking resources, just being good at your job isn’t good enough. Although your job description may lay out clear responsibilities and goals, what keeps you moving up the hierarchy is much more complicated than...
by Sergio Gustavo Vera | Oct 27, 2016 | Home Articles, Professional Development, Sin categoría
The winners and losers in the U.S. economy have traditionally been easy to identify. If you had a full-time job, you won. A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost...