There is much talk about life after Covid-19 at the moment. It seems a little premature to me, because the virus continues to hugely impact our daily lives and is likely to remain a continuous threat for a year or more. In his recent contribution to the Economist’s series on “the world after Covid-19,”...

Hyperbole in news reporting is mainstream. Doctoring a profile picture to look younger is an everyday event. So, what difference does a little lie on your resume make? The answer, I hope, is obvious, but let’s consider why people are tempted to lie on their resumes in the first place. One reason is...

The dismal headlines in these dark times can be pretty demotivating for would-be career changers. Yet, clearly, even now some people need or want to change jobs. If you are one of these people, what should you do? How experienced are you at looking for an executive job? Perhaps you have done this...

It is hard to overstate the importance of career targeting as affected executives look out across the swamp of what is to come. You need clarity while searching for the stepping stones of solid ground. Skirting the bogs, quick sands, and other treacherous missteps that predominate. Consider the...

Would you consider yourself satisfied?  I mean, in general, with your day to day existence, your work, your life?  The Covid-19 crisis may leave you with time to reflect on this key question and reveal – a hole in your soul. Most people we encounter can imagine a better life. For example, more...

To value something or someone is a complex concept when you reflect on it. You might value your relationship with your spouse or other loved one, but you would generally never put a monetary value on it, right? You might value your house by looking at comparable houses and their recent selling...

Things were going so well. An eleven-year-old bull market, for example. Business confidence up. Unemployment down. Then suddenly everything changed. Did we, as a society, prepare adequately; react fast enough; take the situation seriously soon enough? Probably not, because in general it is human nature...

For our first twenty-seven years or so the Barrett Group was a physical company. We had an office. People worked there. But much of the career consulting and coaching that we delivered was provided over the telephone. So in some ways, we were already well on the way of being a “virtual company.” About...

Fear saps your will. It freezes you in terror. And it makes it hard to think straight and may leave you in darkness. That may have been helpful to our ancestors, but it does not help in the face of the current health crisis. Having time to sit and stew during your social distancing does not necessarily...

To worry is natural. In fact, it is allegedly an evolutionary advantage that helped our earlier selves anticipate possible threats by imagining them and preparing for them. For example, “could a cave bear wander into the cave tonight, and if so, what would I do?” [See Daniel Goleman’s Emotional...