The Thing About Work

The Thing About the Refrigerator; Where the Rubber Meets the Air; The Saddest Three Letters in Business; The "At the End of the Day" Thing; What's the Plan?; Does Low-Hanging Fruit Exist?; The Chickens Need a Raise; Showing Up Still Matters; The Working from Home Thing; Are You Responsive?; Coffee Is the New Lunch and Other Coffee Matters; What Is That Smell?; Making a To-Do List Is Not the Same As Getting Something Done; Can We Cancel All Meetings but Keep the Doughnuts?; How Late Is Late?; The IT Guy Is the Most Important Person You Know; Dogs in the Halls; That Double-Secret Probation Thing; All My Mentors Are Dead; The Three Best Business Books Ever Written; The Thing About Getting Hired and Fired; Getting Hired Is a Probability Function; Networking-It's All About Traffic; Words That Matter in the Hunt; Gigs Are a Beautiful Thing; Tell Me About Yourself and Other Lies; Coffee Can Kill a Career; Why Do Interviewers Talk So Much?; Hello? Anyone Out There?; Reference Checking and Your Secrets; The Interns Are Coming; Performance Review Benedictions; Get Fired at Least Once-It Can Be Good for Your Career; If You Are Going to Get Fired, Get Fired Fast; When Resigning, Do It Fast; I Don't Love You Anymore; How to Fire a CEO; Lunch Is Neither a Good Time to Fire Someone nor to Get Fired; What Kind of Gone Is Your Job?; The Use of F-Bombs Won't Help You with Your Next Job; When Terminated, Pay Less Attention to Delivery Mode Than to Content; It Is Not Difficult to Get Fired-It Is Difficult to Get Hired Again; Never Resign Before Landing Another Job; My Career Clock Is Ticking; Moving from Boy Wonder to the Gray Hair in the Room; Is It Too Late?; The Make More Money Thing; That Personal Brand Thing; What Do You Do?; Start All Over!; That Ten Thousand-Hour Rule; The Work-Life Balance Thing; Not My Job; The Job Title Thing; Projects, Projects, Projects; The Networking Thing; Talking About Pay!; Working in the Polar Vortex; Is Work Killing Us?; What Happens on the Road Does