We've all experienced the uneasy, often stressful, pressure of being overwhelmed in our careers. In this episode, Tim Muma's guest hopes to bring the listeners some tips to get over that feeling, regroup and get the job done well. Erika Andersen, founding partner of Proteus, uses her wealth of experience helping executives develop by relaying valuable information to our listeners who may be overwhelmed. Erika draws off that...

This is not a joke, even though it sounds like a bad sci-fi movie or the title of a smudgy xeroxed screed being circulated amongst conspiracy theorists. I just read an article in Fast Company citing a recent Oxford University study that shows how almost half (47% ) of current jobs could be done by machines in the fairly near future.Reading this article sent me on an internet search for “jobs in danger of being automated” (...

Lately my job has been changing. For the past couple of decades, the business I started in 1990 was small enough that if I didn’t have a good month, the business didn’t have a good month. Now it’s grown beyond that: how much work I do for clients in a given period doesn’t have much to do with how well we’re doing overall. In fact, doing work for clients is no longer the single highest value thing I can do for the busines...

You can go crazy trying to figure out every single skill that might be necessary for each job, but if you look around, there really are just a handful that get you into a position - almost any position. Erika Andersen, Founding Partner of Proteus International, shares with Tim Muma the top four skills she has encountered in her career that are at the core of what employers want - and what gets you hired. She also gives some...