By Yvonne Milosevic As you mentally map out your career path, an obvious question immediately crops up. Professionally speaking, is it better to be a generalist or a specialist? At first glance, it would appear becoming a specialist is the key to greater success. After…
By Yvonne Milosevic For many people, the start of a new decade had sparked the desire to explore new career paths in 2020. Then, the coronavirus pandemic struck. Suddenly, we were sheltering in place, working from home, or unemployed overnight. Those conditions might seem incompatible…
By Yvonne Milosevic Life is pretty much upside down right now. On top of freaking out about the prospect of getting sick (or that a loved one will come down with coronavirus), many people are in a professional limbo as well. That’s why today, we’re…
By Stacy Blackman, President of Stacy Blackman Consulting Young professionals in recent years have become increasingly focused on happiness and fulfillment. We see this reverberated throughout our client pool of hundreds of elite MBA applicants. They have carefully orchestrated their career paths to include multiple…
By Yvonne Milosevic Not everyone's career trajectory follows a straight path upward. "A lot of career choices are like a game of Chutes and Ladders. You don't always get to just walk up the ladder," noted Apple VP Kate Bergeron. Speaking at MIT's Innovative Leadership…