By Ute Stephan — 2018
Here are the five key findings that sum up the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur.
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Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan—there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.
Is there a right way—and a wrong way—to quit your job? Here’s what to do and say in the moment.
Even if you’re unhappy with your job, you may be tempted to stay and put up with the slow simmer of discontent out of fear of finding something new. Let’s see if you’re in the red zone where you’ve crossed the border into unhealthy, potentially damaging territory.
Far too many of us have swallowed the notion that business owners have to be a certain way to be successful—strategy-obsessed, data-driven, and relentlessly aggressive.
The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government.
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say.