— Archive for 2012 —

• Interested in advertising on ‘thefacebook’…

  Just dug out my e-mail correspondence with facebook from my email archives… this young fellow in this thread has done quite well for himself… (this must be the article I am referring to in my e-mail below…)   > —–Original Message—– > From: thefacebook – Advertising [mailto:advertise@thefacebook.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 5:36 PM > [...]

  May 14

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• Hired!

  The full list is too large, but here’s a selection of about fifty of the jobs accepted this past month by members here at TheLadders: Job Title Salary Account Executive $140K Account Manager $200K Associate Commercial Manager $110K Associate Director $130K Business Development Manager $115K Director $150K Director Finance $160K Director of Facilities $140K Director [...]

  May 14

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• The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream (The Dream Comes Around)

  Last year, when I wrote to you about “The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream“, you responded with the most comments I’ve ever had on my blog. Some of you thought I was a hero, some of you thought I was a goat, for this passage: Which reminds me… I had a very bright young [...]

  May 7

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• “Try not to embarrass yourself”

  Our friends over at AMC here in Manhattan gave me a sneak peek at tonight’s series premiere of “The Pitch” — the ad agency head-to-head battle series. Tonight’s show features a work-around-the-clock Vegas agency against a Clio-award-winning New York ad veteran. What draws you into the show is the live pitch that the two agencies [...]

  Apr 30

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• “Your voicemail is so annoying…”

  If you’d like to ensure that employers never return your phone calls, here’s the voicemail you could leave: “Hey Susan, it’s Stan. I think you’ll agree that I’m perfect for the Director job we discussed four weeks ago. When I spoke with your CEO at our Alumni Conference last week, he mentioned what a great [...]

  Apr 23

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• Songs that celebrate growth, start-ups, and entrepreneurs

  There are far too few songs that celebrate start-ups, entrepreneurs, and growth, so when I find ‘em, I love ‘em. It’s no secret that one by-product of our government schools is the driving out of the formal educational system of creatively-inclined and inspired people.  Our greatest actors, artists, and musicians too often fail to graduate [...]

  Apr 22

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• What I learned from visiting New York City one hundred years ago

  What was it like to be a tourist visiting New York City one hundred years ago? Thanks to Google books, I’m fascinated with this 1916 tourist handbook for New York City: Rider’s NEW YORK CITY: A GUIDE-BOOK for TRAVELERS.  Cities change, and yet stay the same, over the years, the decades, the centuries.  This depiction of New [...]

  Apr 21

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• Can you name 10 companies you’d like to work for?

  What if you were able to walk into an interview and explain persuasively why you’d like to work at that company? What if you were able to be very knowledgeable in showing that you were familiar with their history and their current initiatives, that you already knew more than a dozen of your future colleagues, [...]

  Apr 16

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• Leonardo da Vinci’s resume

  Buon giorno, Before he was famous, before he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, before he invented the helicopter, before he drew the most famous image of man, before he was all of these things, Leonardo da Vinci was an armorer, a weapons guy, a maker of things that go “boom”. And, like [...]

  Apr 9

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• Long before Google, the Soviets also had 20% time

  There is a remarkable overlap between the ideals of the 1936 Soviet constitution  and Google’s employee benefits.  Both provide the right to productive work, rest, and leisure; health protection; care for your old age and during sickness; housing, education, and cultural benefits.  That one of those entities became a world-straddling superpower with an enormous impact on [...]

  Apr 4

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