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Asking questions: Less accusatory, more empowering

How To Ask Better Questions

If you really stop and think about it for a few seconds, the whole idea of “asking good questions” is really important to (a) society and (b) work. (“Relationships” would fit here too.) No one knows everything — although there… Continue Reading

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Do these five things well and you’ll make money and keep your best people

Keys To Employee Engagement Purpose At Work

This is a great post by Josh Bersin at Forbes if you’re the type of person who believes in employee engagement and the development of corporate culture, which you might not be. (This might be your attitude.) I recommend you… Continue Reading

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Your team has no self-awareness, and that’s why they don’t get projects done

Self-Awareness Important To Business

Actually thinking for a second about what you do and why you do it — rather than just headlong racing into it — can actually make a huge difference in your success (even to teams believe this stuff is a “soft skill”). Continue Reading

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So wait, what are you so busy with anyway?

I could probably write an entire book on this concept, but for right here and right now, I’ll limit it to a dinky little blog post. I’ve already written about “The Busy Trap” once (here), and when I repurposed that… Continue Reading

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Maybe we should stop talking about “lead generation”

Pretty interesting post on Forrester about “The Sales Enablement Forum,” which was apparently an event a few weeks back in Scottsdale, Arizona. Quick word of caution: if you’re very wary of business buzzwords, I’d probably avoid reading that post linked above… Continue Reading

Management advice: Tell people what you want done, not how to do it

Manage By Telling People WHAT, not HOW

Was scrolling through Forbes this morning and came across this article, which is predominantly about Sheryl Sandberg trying to ban the word “bossy” from business discourse. I personally have really mixed feelings about Sheryl Sandberg (more on that at another… Continue Reading

The scientific reason work is a clusterfuck

Why is work a clusterfuck?

I wrote a little bit about the Dunning-Kruger effect once before, and now there’s an extension of it described in The Washington Post (based on this research paper). First, let’s talk about the experiment and what it was aiming to… Continue Reading

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Do we think Thomas Rouland is involved in the disappearance of Kimberly Rouland?

Kimberly Rouland Missing

Here are most of the basics of this case, notably: Siskavich’s girlfriend, Kimberly Rouland, 32, was reported missing on Feb. 10. Her estranged husband, Thomas Rouland, 37, told police she left their Arcadia residence the previous night at 6:30 p.m.… Continue Reading