Management
Women Managers Have Better Odds of Being Promoted in Seattle Than in Most Major U.S. Metros
Still, male managers have far better odds of getting that career-boosting promotion than do women, study shows
The Seattle area once again shines in a study focused on gender equity in the workplace, ranking third among the countrys largest metro areas in a measure of the odds of women white-collar managers getting a promotion. For the Seattle metro area, the odds of a male manager getting a promotion are 23.6%, compared with…
Got a Minute: Workplace Advice You Can Use
New column tackles everything from bad bosses to surly coworkers
This article appears in the June 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. “Thank you! Our time together was life-changing. That was an incredible compliment from a former colleague who needed some career advice and a much-needed boost of confidence to quit one job and pursue another. Im not a psychologist, career counselor or…
The Art of Making Change
If your business is doing things the way its always done them, youre not just standing still; youre moving backward.
If you keep doing what youve always been doing, youll keep getting what youve always gotten. Im sure youve heard some version of this saying. Youve read it in a dozen books; youve heard it in a dozen motivational speeches. (If that last part is true, congratulations on surviving a dozen motivational speeches.) If you…
Final Analysis: The Business of Baseball
The Mariners are a bad team; are they a badly run company?
Anyone who plays professional baseball will tell you it takes luck to get to the World Series. So the Seattle Mariners are one of the unluckiest teams in Major League Baseball, right? I mean, only two of the 30 current MLB teams have never been to the World Seriesand one of them is the Mariners,…