Dressing Up

Speaking of negotiating, The Wall Street Journal had this article about how to dress for a session of hard-bargaining. Though it's all about deal-makers in the Wall Street sense of the term, negotiating your compensation is essentially about making a deal. Billions may not be at stake, but your lifestyle certainly is, and that's no small thing.

Over on our sister site eFinancialCareers, Jon Jacobs wrote about whether men going gray should color their hair. (The consensus they probably shouldn't.) A lot of people thought we were a bit nuts to post something like that, but the more people Jon talked to, the more he found it can actually matter. We all like to pretend we're above these things, but when someone shows up at a button-downed firm wearing a really bad hair piece, it gets noticed.

What I Wore to the Takeover [WSJ]
Gray Matters: Hiding it Can Hurt a Man's Prospects [eFC]