Finding the Job of Your Life

wriiten by Gianpiero Petriglieri

Let’s face it. We all think about it. At times we think of little else — even if only rarely and in certain settings do we feel free to admit it. The conversation often begins furtively, the question murmured as if slightly shameful or out of place. How can I get more of it at work?

Meaning, that is.

Meaning at work, in work, from work. Despite work even. Meaningful work. However you put it, we crave meaning more than ever. Continue reading

Director of Business Development, Federal Sector

As a Director of Business Development, you will be challenged to rapidly grow market share for outsourcing services. This position offers tremendous opportunities for personal and professional growth.  Responsible for organic revenue generation and accountable for new business results by developing and maintaining top level client and potential client relationships, managing the relationships between the organization and new and existing clients, and by substantial contributions in identifying,  pursuing, and winning multiple sales opportunities for business expansion. Continue reading

The Interconnected CFO: How to Drive Better Organizational Outcomes

written by Shantanu Gosh

From custodian of corporate assets and financial information, the CFO’s role has expanded to a bewildering degree, requiring organizations to reassess their entire approach to financial operations. The old silo mentality is outdated; organizations must develop a more efficient and effective financial operation that drives value across the enterprise. The CFO, being at the center of this process, is best able to drive the necessary changes to create such an interconnected enterprise. However, to be successful, the CFO must learn to leverage all of the tools, expertise, delivery models, and resources available both within the organization and externally, for no single executive has the time to personally research and oversee every aspect of such a transformation. Continue reading

Fatigue Is Your Enemy

  Written by Tony Schwartz

Two years ago, I began hearing the phrase “It isn’t sustainable” over and over from senior executives. They were talking about the everyday demands at work.

The day of reckoning seems to have arrived. During the past month alone, no less than a half dozen senior executives have told me that fatigue, exhaustion and even burnout are the biggest issues they’re facing both for themselves and among their troops. Continue reading

Losing the War for Talent: Why Offshore Providers Come Up Short Onshore

Written by Deborah Kops

Over the last few weeks, I must have had at least 10 calls from outsourcing talent currently looking –or being recruited for new positions–many of them by offshore providers. And that’s not counting the calls from search consultants, desperate to locate that buried diamond of a sales-accounts-or-solutions guy who can be persuaded to jump ship. Continue reading