More than 5 million American businesses earn less than $5 million annually in gross revenues. These businesses account for more than 40 percent of the Gross National Product, yet they have largely been ignored in federal government’s stimulus and financial reform efforts. How are today’s businesses to survive and thrive at a time when the [...]

Quickly! Who do you think has faster rising numbers of work life balance dissatisfaction—men or women? Well, if the research from Jeremy Adam Smith’s terrific book, The Daddy Shift, can be trusted (and I know it can), men represent the fastest growing demographic of those who feel work life and family life are out of [...]

Bye-bye, Aughts — don’t let the door hit you in the ’00s on your way out. True, there were all those years of economic euphoria. Only thing is — like that classic sitcom Seinfeld — they were based on nothing. As a result, the United States is stumbling into the Tweens with a full-on nasty [...]

Sometimes, the office can be as treacherous to navigate as the prison yard at San Quentin. You may not wind up with a shank in your side, but there’s a better-than-even chance somebody wants to stab you in the back and use your stinkin’ carcass as a stepping stone for their own advancement. Office predators [...]

OK. Admit it. You still like to play with toys. High-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft have encouraged playful creativity by turning their workplaces into virtual playgrounds where employees are encouraged to take play breaks. The legacy of the dot-com boom era includes foosball tables, ping-pong tables, X-box stations where employees can engage in [...]

We know all’s fair in love and war, but what’s fair at a job fair? Are certain questions off limits? What should you wear? How do you set yourself apart from the pack? To get you the answers you need, Men’s Life Today interviewed a trio of experts who make a career out of helping [...]

In today’s job market, making a positive first impression counts more than ever, so dressing appropriately for an interview is always a good way to start. Although many industries have adopted a more corporate-casual look for their employees, you’re not one of them until you’ve landed the job. So yes, you still need to wear [...]

I earn a living in sales. I’ve been selling in some form or fashion most all of my life. I was a scrawny kid growing up, 5 foot nothin’ and a hundred pounds in high school. Ears like Dumbo. Literally the smallest kid in school in ninth grade. So I had to learn to sell myself.

Image by: Jean Scheijen, SXC Hey guys! Mike Austin (RadioDAD.com) just delivered our latest podcast, episode #5! Including: – Interview with Michelle Sullivan, Executive Producer for National Geographic Digital Media, on National Geographic Kids new (free!) online game PLUTO’S SECRET! – Interview with Jim O’Kane, founder of TVDads.com, a growing website about TV’s single dads… [...]

As the web has grown, and especially as “web 2.0″ has emerged, there are all sorts of cool new tools available to folks to promote their sites, grow stats, drive traffic, etc. Why does this matter to our readers? Because a lot of guys reading The Father Life are involved in the social media and [...]