Category Archives: Time management

Your Career and You: “Check Your &#%@ Email”

Posted on July 24, 2017 by

This past week has been nothing short of annoying on the electronic communication front. I have sent out more than a dozen emails to various people ranging from presidents of nonprofit organizations to…of course…students. Crickets. In the case of the … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: “Don’t Be Anti-‘Social’”

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

Okay…a random-ish thought for my Curry College COM/PR student-friends and Curry College PR Student Association members sparked by having participated in three or four Twitter chats in the past couple of weeks courtesy of colleagues scattered across the globe… How … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: “Professional Development-It’s the Way ‘Up’ for You”

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

My Madrid-based friend and colleague, Corina Manea, published a thought-provoking piece recently on professional development in which she laid out a terrific roadmap for planning your route to future success. I immediately shared it with everyone I could think of, … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: “I Didn’t Have Time”

Posted on February 9, 2017 by

A colleague at Curry College, where I oversee the Public Relations Concentration in our Communication Department, made an interesting comment recently that got me to thinking about priorities and common sense. We were talking about how the spring semester had … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: “It’s Teatime Somewhere”

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

One habit that I’ve maintained religiously since my first experience more than 30 years ago at The Peninsula Hong Kong is a commitment to a late-afternoon break for a cup of hot tea. Now things were a smidge different back … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: “Don’t Blame ‘Them’”

Posted on June 6, 2014 by

I’ve been here in Taipei for the past several weeks, decompressing, doing some serious introspection, and pretty much doing what I do every day anyway…reading local newspapers, watching the news on TV, and marveling at the fact that it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Your Career and You: Summer Doldrum Defense

Posted on July 20, 2013 by

There’s nothing like a heat wave in New England to cheer you up! Especially if, like yours truly, you were born and reared in the South and then spent eight years in the Philippines,Vietnam, and Hawaii…places where “cool” is a … Continue reading →

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