What is occurring today could only happen in the United States of America. Its roots are the American birthright. Its essence re-imagines the American Dream.
The Work Strong blog is an ongoing and regularly updated excerpt from Peter Weddle’s 2010 book, The Career Activist Republic.
To transform yourself into a career activist and claim the [...]

If you want to know why a growing number of Americans are becoming career activists, you need look no further than the Board of Directors at Hewlett-Packard. If you’re wondering why so many of the country’s working men and women have taken their careers into their own hands, take a look at the cowardice [...]

Remember the Miracle on Ice? It was the winter of 1980, and nobody expected much out of the American hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The team, made up of amateur and college students, would have to play its way through the Soviet team which was stocked with [...]

Forty years ago, a generation of Americans said they would never work for “the man.” Their values and culture were so different and their numbers so great that the workplace was going to have to change to accommodate them.
Today, the members of that Baby Boom generation go to work much as their parents did. [...]

The Bible says the meek shall inherit the earth, and I certainly wouldn’t want to quarrel with that source. I would, however, respectfully offer a modern exception to the rule. The meek shall inherit the earth, but they will not control the workplace.
American workers have learned that lesson the hard way. They [...]

This job market is a poser. It wants you to think it’s a regular old job market just like those we’ve always had. And, if you buy into that notion, you’ll be setting yourself up for failure.
Good old fashioned job markets were “come as you are” events. You found a new job [...]

We’ve all heard of the Greatest Generation, the men and women who saved the world from totalitarianism in World War II. Well, now we have another generation deserving of its own title, but this one is different. It’s the Worst Generation—the single most self-serving and stupid group of “leaders” in the history of [...]

The Conference Board reports that 2010 is still a month young and already it’s set a new record. Almost half of all Americans (45%) report that they are dissatisfied with their jobs. That’s the highest the figure has been since the question was first asked, way back in 1987.
What’s behind this malaise?
Certainly, it [...]

If you watched Meet the Press yesterday, you heard Alan Greenspan opine that of all the problems caused by the recession, perhaps the most serious will be its impact on the long-term unemployed.
Today, there are almost 6 million Americans who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more. As Mr. Greenspan noted, [...]

This Sunday’s New York Times had an article entitled “Not Taking ‘Not Hiring’ for an Answer.” Its theme was that “baby boomers were more persistent job-hunters than other age groups.” The tactics they’re using, however, can be just as effective for Gen Ys and Millennials.
In particular, the article noted that more and more [...]