by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 3, 2017 | Leadership
By the time Friday arrives so many of us feel cross eyed, somewhat brittle and near overwhelm. An entire week reacting to myriad requests, emails, interruptions, texts, and a general feeling of overwhelm, all in the service of our j-o-b-s. It’s like the citizens...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 2, 2017 | Business Relationships
We start a discussion with a new peer at work or sit down with a new client or meet a new employee. And then it dawns on us that this new person in our ecosystem not only knows her stuff but she also connects the dots more quickly and makes better judgement calls and...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 1, 2017 | Leadership
In one of my all time favorite Seinfeld episodes, George Costanza ingeniously figures out that by acting annoyed all the time at work, his boss at the Yankees would leave him alone, thereby eliminating all external pressures so that he could continue his life,...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Feb 28, 2017 | Careers
Questions are our minds’ crowbars and shovels and pickaxes. They afford us the leverage to make sense of another person’s priorities, the project or strategy or problem. With the right mindset, they’re tools to pry open a hidden agenda or uncover a...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Feb 27, 2017 | Careers
You career is always on. It doesn’t stop just because you’re between paychecks. Whether you’re conducting a full on job search or you’ve gone back to school or you’re contemplating changing from one job category to another, your career is...
