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Help her find me: Michele Wolf

Michele Wolf worked at Rutledge in Connecticut, Bear Stearns in New York, MBNA in Maine, STAR Telecom in Atlanta, and went to graduate school in California in 2003. Can you help her find me?

Life after Safeco

Safeco Friends, It’s been 51 weeks since I last Safecoed with you. A lot can change in a year. I work at Cardiac Science and really enjoy it. (The Cardiac Science equivalent to the Safeco Playbook was my first assignment back in November.) We’re building the category and I can save a life through the [...]

Dear employer: I’m not perfect

I once had an interviewer ask me a question so direct that I had two choices: lie, or tell her an unfiltered, embarrassing truth.

I told the truth.

And I got the job — not in spite of my embarrassing admission but because of it. Read on.

The Art of Living

Every once in a while, someone enters your life and alters your path. Are you aware enough to know when it’s happening? (It might be happening right now, with this blog posting.) Shyam Nair altered my path. We met at StockPot, Campbell’s fastest growing division at the time, when I was Director of Marketing there. [...]

Tae Andrews, Rest in Peace

Tae Wan Andrews died on March 30. He was 45. I just heard about it today. Tae was my boss at Kraft Foods when I worked on the Lender’s Bagel business. I liked him, and I’m moved by his death. Working on Lender’s in 1996 was neither easy nor enviable. Bagel shops were sprouting all [...]