Top-level executives and managers love the word collaboration. Sometimes it feels like a prevailing attitude can be, “If our teams are just collaborating, all will be well with the world!” Collaboration seems to be a synonym for togetherness in a lot… Continue Reading
If you really distill work — or, frankly, your entire life — down to a couple of core tenets, I would say one you might arrive at is “The ability to develop ideas and present them to others.” That’s the… Continue Reading
One of the most remarkable things to me about the evolution (revolution?) of business in the modern era is this seeming dichotomy: Organizations now strive to get real-time feedback from customers (think social media, tracking tools, etc.) Organizations still basically… Continue Reading
You can define the idea of “getting things done,” as this article does, as the intersection of “motivation” and “willpower.” The idea of willpower is actually a finite resource — which scientists and researchers only really have known in the last decade… Continue Reading
Complaining — which we all do from time-to-time, if not daily — can apparently physically hurt your brain if you’re doing it too much. Beyond that depressing research, there’s this notion: when you complain, your bloodstream is flooded with cortisol (the stress hormone);… Continue Reading
One of the things I’ve discovered as I’ve written about different topics for this blog is that often, people take a condition or an idea on face and don’t evaluate it or think about it anymore than that. A good… Continue Reading
Admittedly I don’t know a ton about economics — I actually got a D in Micro frosh year of college — so I’m not really that strong on all the different indicators of an economy’s health. I can tell you… Continue Reading
Even if you’re a super-busy person with a ton of meetings and deliverables, there’s a good chance you’ve engaged in some workplace gossip at least once in the previous five days. It’s actually very natural; I think once you’ve worked at a… Continue Reading