Three Ways to Balance Long-Term and Short-Term Goals
News quiz: Who is publicly advocating for private investors to balance their investment returns with “the prosperity and security of their fellow citizens”? If you answered BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of one of Wall Street’s flagship firms, you were right. But if you didn’t know, you might be tempted to answer Bernie Sanders […]
Superior Employees Matter
Companies that develop and retain superior employees are making more money with fewer employees.
5 Tips for More Visibility at Work
No one likes to be invisible. At work, it’s a surprisingly easy pattern to fall into. Ironically, the harder you work, the easier it is to feel invisible.
Everything I Need to be Powerful, I Learned in Yoga
“Planking is a powerful pose.” This is the sort of thing my yoga teacher proclaims to exhort me to sweat out another minute. Surely there is some power involved here, but who knew it was the same kind of power that you might witness in a persuasive meeting, a TED talk, or a board meeting? […]
Seven Signs of Anxiety
Learn the seven signs of anxiety that show your stress level has tipped beyond the healthy point.
Getting Tone Right in Email
I feel sorry for this guy. Not because his car is jacked up–it’s a commercial after all–but because, as an actor, he has the same script as a 16-year-old girl getting surprised with a car for her birthday. His job is to make us feel sorry for him, but the words are not going to […]
If You Want to Explain Behavior, Look at Mindset
The difference between scarcity and abundance mindsets explains a lot about why we get the best or worst out of people. A scarcity mindset can result in some pretty awful actions, like those of Harvey Weinstein or Larry Nassar. An abundance mindset can enable the most extraordinary actions, like those of Malala Yousafzai, or the […]
6 Steps to Better Outcomes for Talking to Employees
An astounding number of managers and business leaders, 67% of them, report being uncomfortable communicating with their employees. That discomfort is about half attributable to the difficulty of delivering tough messages to employees, from feedback to company initiatives. It also includes a fair share of people who find it difficult to communicate even good news […]
I Have a Dream: 3 Ways to be More Memorable
“I have a dream.” It’s rightly famous, perhaps one of the most memorable lines ever spoken. So, why do we remember some phrases and not others? More importantly: How do we say something in a way that other people, like our teams, remember our message? Martin Luther King knew exactly how to write so that […]