This from WiP reader Anne Witkavich (check out her blog here): You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself By Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith Review by Anne Witkavitch Walk into any bookstore or surf online and there is an overabundance of self-help and motivational books promising something new, something different for the reader—that one [...]
My sister Emy loves to tell this story. In high school P.E., we had to run races of varying lengths as part of the Presidential Fitness tests. You might ask why an international school populated only minimally by Americans had to abide by the American president’s fitness standards. You might ask if we even knew [...]
Just got this memo in my inbox from Time Inc.’s corporate leader, Ann Moore: I want to share the details surrounding our newest sustainability initiative. ReMix (which stands for Recycling Magazines is Excellent) is a national public education campaign aimed at increasing residential recycling of magazines and catalogs. The campaign was created four years ago [...]
I awoke this morning from a disturbing dream. In the dream, I was…typing. Actually, I was cutting and pasting within a document in an effort to format it correctly for a blog post. I’m not kidding. I wish I was. Of all the places to let my unconscious roam in my too-few hours of sleep, [...]
Adrian Furnham is British psychologist who studies perceptions of human intellect. He found that while men and women score pretty much the same in IQ, men tend to think their scores are higher than they are and women think the opposite. He discusses his findings in a magazine we at TIME prefer to call Brand [...]
No smoking at work. Or at home. True or false: Californians are permitted to grow and possess marijuana if a doctor says they need it for medicinal purposes. True! A 1996 “compassionate use” law makes pot legal for those whose health is aided by its use. True or false: Private employers in California can fire [...]
About an hour ago, 100-plus TIME staffers gathered in a large auditorium here at Time Inc. for what were billed as the Kudos Awards. The whatos? is what I thought when I got the e-mailed invite. The invite looked important: it came from Ed McCarrick, the business chief of TIME, and the reminder note came [...]
This link from Reuters via Yahoo! News, sent by my pal Gerry, who writes, “I don’t know which is odder, that heartache leave exists or that it’s only a couple of days.” Get this: Lovelorn staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad break-up with a partner, with more [...]
Lately I’ve been complaining about my chosen beat. While my smarter colleagues were picking topics like TV and architecture and national politics, I picked…work. Why? I dunno. Like most of my decisions in life, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Turns out my bosses were questioning my choice, too. I write frequently [...]
Lately I’m getting a lot of press releases from career coaches, staffing companies and head hunters advising me to tell you that they know how to “recession-proof your job.” If I were being all analytical and boring, I’d say it’s one indicator of voter jitters about the direction of the economy. But then I got [...]
Americans are gluttons. This we know. I have seen the Sunday night buffet at a barbecue joint in Wilson, N.C. I have watched contestants weigh in at 400 lbs.-plus on The Biggest Loser. What’s worse, we pretend we’re not. We gobble up books like Skinny Bitch, a vegan manifesto, and yet 85% of Americans scarf [...]
