Bruce Tulgan Work Quotations

But that almost never happens, ... People are so thrilled, usually, to customize their work arrangements that they become very protective of the deal they've created for themselves.

Always be assessing your particular skills and your particular experience and your particular abilities and energies and interests, and matching them up with the available work to be done. And then be prepared to sell yourself into challenges.

If you're one of those people who gets tons of work done very well, very fast, and you can prove it, you're not going anywhere.

The No. 1 thing is to be one of those people who gets a lot of work done very well, very fast. Don't be scared into submission by all the downsizing activity. That's exactly the wrong message to take.

The norm will be to work for several employers; on again, off again; as an employee one year, as an independent contractor the next year; 40 hours one week, 20 hours another; on-site this month, telecommuting the next; and so on,