Dear MBA Student,
These are my thoughts as a 2007 Stanford GSB grad after sitting on a career panel at The Columbia Graduate School of Business. Let me know what you think.
This has not been checked for grammar. It’s a freewrite. Thanks for reading.
MBAs are risk averse.
Business school students are among the smartest and [...]
I’ve only earned $200,000 in my lifetime. That includes my job first job as an umpire, being a manager at the batting cages in high school, working for SHAPE as an undergrad, working for SHAPE full-time post-undergrad, and working for MLT for a year and half. My career strategy has basically been to:
Seek and accept [...]
I quickly wanted to honor all of my friends nationwide who are blogging on a variety of subjects including careers, personal branding, music, technology, themselves, New York, events, art, activism, business, personal development, education, and more. Comment below if you want your blog to be added to the list.
Aaron Lazansky
http://blog.sohnup.com
Alanzo Dale – The Minority [...]
I hear a lot of people say that they don’t know what their passions are. Luckily, the answers are right around us in our daily lives. In most cases, we’ve already engaged with our passions at some point in life, but because it felt natural and/or we never declared it verbally, publicly, or in writing, [...]
5th Grade Graduation Speech at P.S. 329 in Brooklyn, New York
Thank you Miss Dawson, teachers, and parents for giving me the opportunity to address your bright children today. If you don’t mind, I would like to turn the podium to address them.
There were two students from the same neighborhood who went to the same [...]
Superheroes know their superpowers. Do you? Sometimes our powers come so naturally to us that we don’t event recognize them ourselves. So here’s a fun survey to send to friends to get some 360-degree feedback and discover your superpowers and how they can be used professionally.
Warning: Side effects include increased happiness, greater self-awareness, & stronger [...]
For most people passions are part-time instead of full-time. They are things you do on the weekend if you get around to them. A lot of people drive to work park in the parking lot and leave half of who they are in the passenger seat while dragging the other half of themselves into the [...]
Today I spoke to a group of about 40 undergrads at the University of Michigan on the topic of Purpose + Passions + Profession: How to align your life, work, & goals. The event was sponsored by the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Women’s Initiative. Feel free to watch the speech [...]
75 Reminders To Follow Your Passions
This is a tribute to some of my entrepreneurial friends (mostly) under 30 who are self-employing themselves full-time or part-time with their passions. Thank you for reminding and inspiring me with your bold examples.
CLOTHING & APPAREL
Olatunde of Esface
Dania of Fluffy Jo
Tracy of Dangerous Negro Apparel
Andy of Bonobos Pants
Olu of [...]
On my Stanford Business School application, one of the questions they asked was “What matters to you most and why?” That one stopped everyone in their tracks. That was probably the hardest essay any one of us ever had to write. Of course the easy answers are family, life, but we all knew that those [...]
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