by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 17, 2017 | Work-Life
Slide decks. Professional publications. The sports page. The style page. Page 6. And let’s not forget the social media feeds. Where is the deep dive? When do we generate the curiosity and energy and attention to really, really get to know a subject? To make it...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 16, 2017 | Careers
Companies have brands. We all know what it means and how we feel when we buy a hamburger from McDonald’s or a Coke or a Hermes tie or a Cannondale bicycle. We trust the company that made the product. It’s their promise to us. When I coach executives we...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 15, 2017 | Careers
The twenty year career with one company is largely an artifact of an another age. Successful career management requires an entrepreneurial mindset and there are four disciplines that we should follow: Organized abandonment — whatever isn’t working, needs...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 14, 2017 | Careers
The interviews went well. The feedback was always positive (or better) and our references validated the impression we created throughout the process. The job is ours and, before we know it, we’re two weeks into our new gig. But with each one-to-one meeting and...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 13, 2017 | Work-Life
We’re out for dinner with that friend or ex-colleague we haven’t seen in ages and of course the subject gets around to what we’re doing. What is our job? How’s our career going? What’s the boss like? Do we like our company? We learn that...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 10, 2017 | Careers
The world will always need people who know they have a job to do. One nail in the wall after another. One parking ticket issued after another. One piece of code written after another. Getting things done and going home before starting all over the next day. Those who...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 9, 2017 | Work-Life
Simone Weil, French philosopher and member of the Resistance wrote the following: “Attention is the purest and rarest form of generosity.” Attention and Generosity. Two scarce commodities. Attention is something that we only give in the presence of someone...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 8, 2017 | Work-Life
What is the ‘account’ that we draw from when a family member or friend or work colleague needs our advice? How do we craft an answer that comes from our heart and represents our best shot at helping this person who is afraid or in pain? It has to come from...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 7, 2017 | Careers
Some, perhaps many people happily fantasize about resignation day: “I’m leaving you for a company where my talents and aspirations will finally be appreciated!” (And if ‘company’ is replaced with ‘you’, then it probably serves...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 6, 2017 | Careers
Silicon Valley is famous (or is that notorious?) for its 10X engineers. Those are the legendary few who create 10 times the value of the other engineers, enabling little start-ups with the super powers they need to take on the giants and disrupt them into oblivion....
