YOUR CAREER

October is National Women’s Small Business Month, and many professional women in Helena say that Montana’s capital city provides equal opportunity for all young professionals, as long as you’re willing to work hard.

"Even though your spouse doesn’t come to work with you day in and day out, their personality contributes to your job success."

When it comes to creativity, as with other aspects of work, we would be well served to use the data we have at our disposal.

In the fast-paced, high stress environment of modern business, what newly minted M.B.A.s and early- to midcareer professionals can get done depends largely on the quality of their behaviors and their interactions with others.

Employers complain that colleges are not producing graduates who can solve problems and connect the dots on complex issues, but bosses stumble when pressed to describe exactly what skills make critical thinkers.

If you don’t have much room to move up, you won’t have anywhere to go, and you don’t want to do the same thing forever, right?

I’m also not confident that a gender-targeted program can fix all the issues that have made it hard for women to advance in the workplace. Here’s why:

The person interviewing you doesn’t give you a tour

"Eighty percent of thinking is unnecessary; it just gets in the way of enjoying your life,"