Layoff season.

How to survive difficult times. Few tips from HBR.

If you want to survice, act like a survivor. Be confident and cheerful. Stay focused on the future by concentrating on the customer, without whom nobody will have a job.

Give your leaders hope. They agonize over layoffs, so cut them a break Empathizing with your boss will give you an advantage.

Be a corporate citizen. Companies like team players. Research shows that collegiality may trump competence when push comes to shove.

I wanted to be a ..

This is a depressing post. That reminds me of what I wanted to be.

• Physicist
• Copywriter
• Astronomer
• Director
• Screen play writer
• Musician
• Lecturer
• Cinematographer
• Humorist
• Ad man
• Artist
• Cartoonist
• Archaeologist
• Historian
• Architect
• Designer
• Writer
• Biologist

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