"Finding yourself" And What It Means To Employers James Caan CBE

I know that a lot of millennials these days dread the question: Why is there a gap on your CV? Unfortunately, answering "I just went away to find myself" apparently, doesn't present enough validity for the majority of employers to accept. Before I run the risk of sounding as though I'm an exception, I'm afraid not.

Powerful Habits of Mentally Strong People By Travis Bradberry

Despite West Point Military Academy’s rigorous selection process, one in five students drop out by graduation day. A sizeable number leave the summer before freshman year, when cadets go through a rigorous program called “Beast.” Beast consists of extreme physical, mental, and social challenges that are designed to test candidates’ perseverance.

Ask yourself these 8 questions before relocating internationally for a job by Isobel Campbell Hannan

In today’s global workplace, working abroad is becoming more and more appealing. According to a survey by PWC, 71 per cent of respondents’ said they wanted to work internationally at some point in their career, with the main attraction being the chance to travel and further their skills and experience. So, if your dream is to one day live and work abroad, you will be pleased to hear that this is now more attainable than ever before.

No One Is 100% Self-Made By Bruce Kasanoff

See that enterprising guy above? Let's imagine he considers himself to be a "self-made man". If that were true, this is how he'd look: like a guy driving an imaginary bike.
I respect you if you have initiative, determination, or tenacity. The same is true if you demonstrate grit and keep going long after many others have quit.

How to Make Better Decisions By Don Peppers

“It’s not what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” - Will Rogers  
Human beings are marvelously intelligent creatures. Unfortunately, however, rationality and scientific reasoning do not come naturally, so our decision-making is often flawed. You’re probably familiar with things like the “confirmation bias” and the “illusion of control,” but the list of cognitive biases, prejudices, and other obstacles to rational thinking is long and rich.

Emotional Intelligence: How Competent Are You? By Daniel Goleman

When I talk about emotional intelligence, I’m not referring to a fixed trait. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that can be developed. In my model of emotional intelligence those skills fall into four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Richard Boyatzis and I worked with KF Hay Group to produce a tool for assessing twelve emotional intelligence competencies nested within each of these four domains that make people stars in the workplace.

Sexual harassment: The culture that everyone knows exists, but somehow just accepts as ok by Joanne Wilson

The sexual harassment suit that has played out in the public eye at Fox News is fascinating yet perhaps not surprising. What is mind-boggling is that once Gretchen Carlson had the guts to file a law suit for Ailes behavior how many other women felt empowered to do the same. For years each of these women, and I am sure there are more, decided to just either live with it, ignore it or leave the company.
My guess is if any of this actually gets to court that we will all be witness to a culture that everyone knew existed but somehow just accepted it as ok. Do we believe that Fox is the only company that allows their executives to behave that way? I doubt it.
In my senior year of college I was making the interview rounds at every top retail program. One of those programs was Bloomingdales. My last interview of the day there was with a male VP of all of ready-to-wear. He was one of the handful of top executives in the company. As the interviewed ended he cornered me in the door and made more than a few inappropriate comments. It is a bit of a blur now but it was about how I looked and having a drink.
It occurred to me the next day when I was back in Boston that this guy sexually harassed me. When Bloomingdales called to offer me a job in their program I declined. I also told the person who called me that the VP had made inappropriate comments to me in the interview and it was not ok. My guess is nothing ever came of that but I wasn’t going to let it pass.
Then many years later when I was running a company in the garment center, the guy who ran it made sexual comments to every woman in that company except me. He probably knew I’d kill him but I told him countless times that it was not ok what he was doing and he was going to end up in a law suit.
Even at Macy’s, where I did take my first job out of college, I saw sexual harassment right before I left. I was in a meeting where all the buyers were presenting the season to the head of the division and the VP who oversaw the division. All the buyers were women and the heads were men. The comments about women’s looks, bodies, boobs and more was beyond inappropriate. One of the men actually felt up one of the women’s legs up while she put her presentation up on the board. Everyone giggled like it was funny but I was disgusted.
I told the head of HR what had happened and I also told the head of HR that I was told that women do not move as fast as men. I am sure that I was blackballed after that because of the anger and tension that was being driven towards me from my immediate boss. Besides the fact that the company just went private and it was a complete mess and I was thoroughly bored in my job, it was the environment that really pushed me out.
I hear from too many women founders who go pitch men that say shit that you can’t make up. I am not sure if they are just ignorant or that this kind of behavior has just been ignored by their peers. As more men and women stand up and say we are not going to take it anymore such as the women at Fox did, we will see healthier company cultures and I bet more mutual respect across the board. Sexual harassment is real and it is NOT ok.
KINGSMITH.