Robert Goldman

2 days ago | creators.com | Robert Goldman

You never forget your first resume. The excitement. The anticipation. The lies. Sure, you were a front-line, business-development representative with bottom-line P&L responsibility, specializing in supply-chain management based on customer-satisfaction metrics. In other words, you were a carhop at Rude Rudy's Burger Babylon. You never forget your last resume, either.

1 week ago | creators.com | Robert Goldman

You really aren't any good at your job, and you're even worse at hiding it. The mistakes you make are going to sink your career and your company. That's why everyone at work hates you. This isn't my opinion; it's yours. The words come straight from your "inner critic" — that persistent interloper who hides inside your brain, criticizing you when anything goes wrong and belittling you when anything goes right. Or so I learned in "Don't Silence Your Inner Critic.

2 weeks ago | creators.com | Robert Goldman

Every office has them: drama queens and drama kings whose highly theatrical soliloquies about their trials and tribulations suggest that they believe, as Shakespeare wrote, "all the office's a stage."Well, maybe Shakespeare didn't put it exactly like that, but Dr. Cynthia J. Young made the same point in a recent article in Forbes, "How to Protect Your Career from Workplace Drama."It's natural for tension to bubble up in an office where people are forced to work together in tight quarters.

3 weeks ago | creators.com | Robert Goldman |Bob Goldman

WORK DAZE BY BOB GOLDMANRELEASE DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2025, AND THEREAFTERWant a Promotion? Hire a Bodyguard$24.4 million. That's how much Meta, the parent company of Facebook, spent to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2024. It's a lot of money, and it raises an uncomfortable question — how much did your company spend to protect its most valuable employee, y-o-u? Somewhat less than $24.4 million, I'm guessing. If you are feeling unprotected and unloved, you're not alone.

1 month ago | creators.com | Robert Goldman

It isn't often that I disagree with The New York Times, but this time, they've gone too far. It was a recent Work Friend column that raised my hackles (and when my hackles are raised, you need a really tall ladder to get them down.) The headline, "My Boss Wants to Sleep on my Couch Every Week," describes the dilemma a reader sent to the friendly Work Friend to adjudicate. "My boss's husband recently got a job at a university a two-hour drive from ours," the reader wrote.