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How Are You Feeling?
Surviving in a culture obsessed with emotions Have you noticed that the ‘appropriate’ question to ask someone today about a proposal is, “How do you feel about that?” Not, “What do you think of that?” or “Do you have any ideas on ...
How You Live Matters, Not What You Do For a Living
“Leadership is mostly a matter of perspective,” writes Richard E. Goldman. “Are you always looking up the ladder to see who's above you? Instead of worrying where everyone else is, try to reconcile yourself with the possibility that you are in ...
Eternity’s Sunrise
Our tendency to grab and hold on—to acquire for the sake of acquisition—virtually ensures that we kill what we most desire. Once you give up the need to ‘own’ what you love, the world is infinite. Stop clinging, even to the best of it. Leave...
A Question of Patience
“There’s plenty of evidence impatience causes us to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy repairing, re-working and re-doing what we did when we were impatient,” Peter Vajda writes. “Sadly, we live in a culture of ‘hurry up’. We act...
The Circle of Care
“Caring is a good thing,” says Karen Senteio, “but only if it is done by degrees to preserve your sanity, your marriage or your job. There is a point where caring too much can cause you to create unnecessary angst for yourself and others. That...
Delusional Optimism
Many people love to think of themselves as ‘can do’ types. They revel in the notion that—somehow—thinking positively will automatically produce a life of ease and plenty. Yet, if you truly want success, it’s better to set out expecting plen...
Would you pass a stress test?
If you had to face a stress test to check on your ‘workplace viability’, would you pass? Here are some thoughts on what such a test should contain. Check yourself out. Read the full text of this article on the blog's website. ...
Standing Up to Adversity
If you can see your present troubles as the crucible in which a new life is being formed, you can focus on how that should turn out and stop worrying about what went before. Decide what you want out of life, then focus on trying to make that happen. ...
Do You Know Your Worth?
“‘Know Your Worth’ is a simple string of three words that can make you stand strong in formidable circumstances,” writes Karen Senteio. “Put it in your permanent bank of wisdom.” Read the full text of this article on the blog's website. ...
Opportunity is Knocking. Are You Coming Out to Play?
Many of us adults have stopped inventing, playing, dreaming, doing and taking action on the things that caught their fancy them. They were silly childhood things that no longer have a place in our lives. Karen Senteio begs to differ. Those are the ...
The Language of Leadership
What we call things tells the world the hidden truth about how we think. In the world of work, the language leaders use to describe their subordinates reveals the true nature of the relationship—the hidden dynamic underneath any surface politeness....
What’s So Special About You?
You won’t build a satisfying career and future through being the same as everyone else. Now, as we all try to rebuild our dreams and find our own path out of whatever the economic downturn has done to us, is an excellent time to recall that being u...
Reasons to Be Cheerful
Here’s something different from The Financial Times: columnist Stefan Stern proposing “Four reasons to be cheerful.” Spring is certainly the right time to feel more up-beat and try putting on a smile, rather than that grim, winter frown. His re...
What goes into your work?
There’s no question people are becoming more introspective about who they are and how they are at work, given the cataclysmic storm of the unethical, immoral and illegal shenanigans we hear about daily. It's up to all of us to decide whether to mak...
“I’ve seen the future . . .”
John Fletcher offers a few tentative suggestions for getting through the future, whatever it may be. In his view, it will be entirely different from anything we have known recently, so we have to get rid of the neurotic longing for the familiar. Do t...
This Week is Last Week’s “Next Week”
Peter Vajda considers how easy it is to act the victim, grimly living with the hand you have been dealt. Choosing not to be proactive about change, despite the stress, confusion and unhappiness you feel, will simply ensure next week—and the weeks a...
The Joy of Saying ‘No’
Somewhere in our past, saying “no” has become ‘not the thing to do’, writes Karen Senteio. What most folks are missing is their boundaries—their ‘line in the sand’. But over-committing is not a core competency. It’s an aggressive oppr...
Little fish, little pond
Many of us spend time and energy trying to convince ourselves we are big fish in small ponds or even bigger fish in larger ponds. The reality, says Peter Vajda, is we are little fish in little ponds, spending our lives with no idea what may be beyond...
Does competition really motivate?
Competition clearly can be both a positive and a negative force. What makes the difference? Are there ways to recognize what produces the positive kind of competition and what gives the negative type? Read the full text of this article on the blog's...
Fear, Hope and Security
Since fear is the price of hope and all security is an illusion, might today’s constant obsession in organizations with results, results and results not be counter-productive, especially in bad times? Maybe there's a better way, argues Carmine Coyo...
