You may not actually punch a time clock, but there is a moment – a little click – that marks the transition from your non-work life to your work life. Maybe for you it’s when the alarm clock goes off in the morning. Click. Or when you hear the traffic report. Click. Or when you [...]
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
I know you’ve heard this many times, but it bears repeating: Failure = Opportunity to Learn.
A device I use to remember this comes from a story I heard many years ago during a coach training class. We had just been taught [...]
Often, new clients come to coaching because they feel trapped in their jobs. Trapped by money, loyalty guilt and quite often, fear of the unknowns of a new job. They hate Monday mornings, resent management decisions and often feel quite stressed out.
There is actually a cure for this misery!
And you don’t even have to quit [...]
Sorry to break this to you, but your co-workers are talking about you after work with their family members and friends. It’s just one of those facts of life.
You know how that conversation goes:
“How was your day today, honey?” asks your co-worker’s spouse.
To which your co-worker replies, “Oh man, I work with this one person [...]
I always bristled at the saying from the 90s, “Work smarter, not harder.” It felt judgmental to me – so you are telling me that I am wrong for working hard? And, in the same breath, you imply that I must get the job done, or else?
Let’s add up this mixed message: If I A) [...]
“You’re grounded!”
These words have been uttered by many a parent as punishment for mischief-making teenagers. “Grounding,” in this sense, means you are taking the kid out of the action and putting her on the sidelines for a bit.
One mom I know said that grounding doesn’t work as a deterrent for her son because he likes [...]
Chade-Meng Tan is my new hero.
Meng, as he is known, is one of Google’s original software engineers. He has won numerous awards and his academic and technical achievement records are impressive.
But what impresses me the most is his pioneering spirit in the area of bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the workplace. Right here in the [...]
Kindergarteners consistently beat business students and other professional adults in the simple, but revealing, Marshmallow Challenge.
The Marshmallow Challenge is a team exercise that asks groups of four to build the tallest freestanding structure in 18 minutes using only 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and one marshmallow – which [...]
Here’s a startling thought: “It’s tougher recovering from a downturn than being in a downturn.”
This statement was made by Ira Jackson, Dean of Claremont’s Drucker School of Management, who was participating at the World Business Forum last week (Oct 6-7 in New York). The Wall Street Journal put together the video below, highlighting top management [...]
Accountants say, yes!, according to a survey by Ajilon Finance, a leading specialty finance and accounting staffing firm, and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
Two findings I thought were particularly interesting:
1. Soft skills ranked as more important than hard skills. Thirty-three percent of the accountants who responded felt that an ability to inspire and motivate [...]
