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We should talk about failure more openly at work

Failure

In my first year of graduate school, I tried to set up a series of events with business leaders from the Minneapolis area. The basic idea would be: at a bar, appetizers and drinks, a business leader speaks for five… Continue Reading

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Everyone needs to learn how to give presentations

Giving Presentations

Couple of stories before we get going on this post. 1. I went to graduate school (for business/organizational development) from 2012 to 2014. It was a little bit off-task, to be sure. In the first semester of the first year, we had… Continue Reading

Maybe a smile is the most powerful thing in the world

Great Smile

That sounds like a brutally cheesy headline, right? No doubt. But think about this: I was trolling the Stanford Graduate School of Business website, as I’m wanton to do, and I found a video by Jennifer Aaker (a professor there) about… Continue Reading

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How I tried to change my personal mantra

Stand By Your Vision and Create Your Own Revolution

On Saturday, I was walking in Antwerp, Belgium in a fashion-forward area of the city. (If you want to know how I got to Belgium, read this; if you want to see some cool pictures I took in Belgium, read this.) Anyway,… Continue Reading

Why is honesty at work so hard?

Future of Work

Work is, at essence, a complex web of relationships. Do you always tell the truth? Continue Reading

This is why no one really listens to you at work

No One Listens At Work

Almost every aspect that would make you a successful manager (i.e. empathy) is in complete opposition to what you need to do to become a manager in the first place. Sad, but true. Continue Reading

If you want to be successful, use more analogies

Power of Analogies

Here’s a new book from John Pollack — a former Bill Clinton speechwriter — called Shortcut, with the sub-title being “How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.” Like anything in the business world circa 2014, once Fast Company wrote… Continue Reading

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How to get people to listen to you

Check out the graphic above; it’s via here and the whole framework comes from this guy. I won’t elaborate too much here, as you can read the other link and check out his book (second link), except to say this: oftentimes, authority is… Continue Reading