If you have a lousy boss, even the best job is not enjoyable. Your relationship with your boss plays a big role in your overall professional happiness. You will most probably lose the battle of “remove-the-boss”, and waiting for your boss to change may keep you waiting for a very long time. If you are [...]
Good moods, while they last, enhance our ability to think with flexibility and with more complexity, hence making it easier to find solutions to problems, whether intellectual or interpersonal. So one way to help someone think through a problem is to tell them a joke. Laughing, like elation, seems to help people think more broadly [...]
Are you a micromanager, or do you report to a micromanager? In case you don’t know, micromanagement is a really bad style of management where the manager closely observes and controls his/her employees. The micromanager likes to monitor and assess every step taken, and possibly wants a plan/proposal from employees for every step of their [...]
The Latin abbreviations “i.e.” and “e.g.” come up quite frequently in writing and I bet if people knew where/how to use them, they would use them more often. English is not my first language… yadi yadi yada … but let me take a stab at it.
i.e., “id est” in Latin, stands for “that is,” and [...]
“We are losing market share because our competitors have gone mad. They’re basically giving their product away for free.” Yeah right … what a load of bologne. The truth of the matter is that your competitor had a better cost position or a better strategic rationale for what it did.
“What is wrong with me” [...]
Dude, follow your instincts. Your gut feeling is mostly correct. Follow them because only you know where you really want to go. Why you ask? It’s simple. Your instincts reflect all you stand for — your life experiences, values, feelings, and of course fears. Your instincts are the derivates of what you’ve learned in your [...]
In the last decade, the TV series “60 minutes” has twice aired a report on a phenomenon known as the French Paradox — the fact that the French have a lower rate of heart disease than Americans, despite a diet that’s higher in fat. Since the one thing the American diet lacks, in comparison to [...]
An old Japanese tale goes that a belligerent Samurai once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. But the Monk replied with scorn, “You’re nothing but a lout — I can’t waste my time with the likes of you!”
His very honor attached, the Samurai flew into a rage and, pulled [...]
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