575 Madison Avenue, NYC

575 Madison Avenue, NYC

Want to Know Me? Just Read My User Manual

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Q. Tell me about your approach to leadership. A. Part of my role is to be “chief ironing officer.” It’s very easy in a fast-growing company and fast-changing industry to get hung up on all the things that aren’t working and that we should be fixing. If you want to get extraordinary results, you have to play […]

Flexible Office Space in Manhattan

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Finding a flexible Office Space is a key part of any business and is probably one of the more stressful parts of running a business. When a company goes looking for an office space in Manhattan it is especially stressful, let’s face it..Manhattan poses some unique problems in souring convenient flexible work space and finding space for […]

She makes job candidates think differently

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Sure, Your References Like You. But What Would Your Critics Say? This interview with Nancy Aossey, president and C.E.O. of the nonprofit International Medical Corps, which provides health care training, relief and development programs, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.Q. Tell me about the first time you were somebody’s boss? CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF […]

If All The World is a Stage, maybe some business advise from an artistic director may be in order.

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First, Make Sure Your Idea Works On a Small Stage. This interview with Francesca Zambello, general and artistic director of the Glimmerglass Festival and artistic director of the Washington National Opera, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Do you remember the first time you were in a leadership role? A. I started a theater company at Colgate because I didn’t like […]

A Simple Way to Send Poor Kids to Top Colleges

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THE packages arrived by mail in October of the students’ senior year of high school. They consisted of brightly colored accordion folders containing about 75 sheets of paper. The sheets were filed with information about colleges: their admissions standards, graduation rates and financial aid policies. The students receiving the packages were mostly high-achieving, low-income students, […]

Web Privacy – Do Not Let Down Your Guard

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SAY you’ve come across a discount online retailer promising a steal on hand-stitched espadrilles for spring. You start setting up an account by offering your e-mail address — but before you can finish, there’s a ping on your phone. A text message. You read it and respond, then return to the Web site, enter your […]

Keep it Simple?

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At the beginning of “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau makes a concise case against the complexity of modern life. “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” […]

The SCARF approach.

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Interview with David Rock, director of the Neuro Leadership Institute. Q. You’ve developed an acronym — SCARF — to better explain people’s behavior, particularly at work. Can you explain it? A. It’s really a summary of what motivates us, the things we feel most passionately about, both positively and negatively, that are driving our behavior all the […]