What’s your story?
We all have stories. They’re the inner thought tracks of our lives. The challenge is they’re not always true, and sometimes even if they are true, repeating them doesn’t always bring out the best in us.
For instance, you probably know a divorced person who is still eager to tell you read more...
How comfortable are you with uncertainty? If you’re like most of us, you probably find it easier to function when things are settled.
Here’s a quick quiz to test your tolerance for uncertainty. On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 means no problem and 5 means my palms start read more...
You’re sooo special.
You’re the best little soccer player out there, and to show you just how special you are, we’re going to give you a huge trophy.
Of course, we’re also going to give one to everybody else on the team. It doesn’t matter whether they played or not, whether the read more...
Which is harder, trying to get a job or trying to keep one?
With 14.8 million people unemployed, job competition has never been stiffer.
If you’ve already got a job, there are plenty of people out there who are quite eager to take your place. And if you’re looking for work, you read more...
Why do people of the opposite sex act so weird at work?
Anyone who works in an environment where their sex is in the minority knows that men and women are different. Actually, anyone who’s ever gone to school, ridden a bus, dated, read a Facebook page, been married, raised kids read more...
Please join me for a free webinar series:Growing Your Business (without giving up your life)
Starting JUNE 24
We’ll cover:
Networking – How to generate leads, when you don’t have time to get out into the community
Motivation- How to get your employees engaged, when you can’t afford raises
Organization – Streamlining your read more...
People are weird about love.
Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it.
We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod. Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same read more...
If you’re under thirty-five, you probably don’t remember the days when people smoked in meetings. The image of a bunch of execs puffing away in a conference room seems like something out of an old movie. Your eyes start to water at the mere thought of it.
Yet I remember when, as a 21-year-old, read more...
What do employees say and do when their boss isn’t watching?
Organizations say they want to know what goes on behind the scenes. But more often than not, senior leaders, particularly those at the top of the corporate food chain, don’t spend enough time in the trenches to get an unfiltered perspective read more...
It’s 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and instead of a gaggle of mothers waiting outside the elementary school to walk the kiddies home, there’s a herd of dads in Bermuda shorts who look a little embarrassed to be there.
It’s being called the Mancession. Men have lost three out of four read more...
