Technically, your boss owns your professional time. That means it’s perfectly within her rights to reprioritize what you’re working on if she thinks doing so is the best thing for the team.
But even good bosses can have a hard time understanding what’s being sacrificed when they assign new tasks and projects.
Tragedy. Illness. Job or relationship problems. We all go through tough times at one point or another. It’s unfortunate, but it’s inevitable.
What sets us apart, then, is how we recover from the bad things life throws our way. When you experience a negative event in your life, how do you react? What strategies do you use to heal, grow, and move on?
You know the saying, “Fake it ’til you make it”?
It turns out that doing things that make you appear confident — even if you don’t actually feel confident — can affect how others see you, and can ultimately have a big impact on your success. It can also affect the chemicals in your brain to make you actually feel more confident when all is said and done.
A great business pitch is among the first of many hurdles an entrepreneur must jump to get their company off the ground.
While it’s not necessarily an indicator of future success, it’s a critical moment for any business. A great pitch can bring valuable partnerships to the table — partnerships that come with even more valuable financial incentives.
Innovation in the workplace poses a unique challenge: Growth requires your employees to take risks, yet chasing unproven ideas can often mean fundamentally risking your job.
While many companies find success confining innovation to specific departments or innovation labs, this can often limit the flow of ideas and constrain the development of new products.
Some things in life are relatively straightforward to learn.
Want to knit a scarf? Head the local craft store, pick up a book, and get to work. Sure, your gauge might be all over the place and your transitions between balls of yarn might be haphazard, but you’ll still end up with something good enough to keep you warm during the winter.
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There’s a common misconception about happiness in the workplace. It goes like this: Great work leads to big success, which leads to happiness.
Sounds like it should work out that way, right?
Turns out that model for happiness is totally backwards. Happiness isn’t a destination; it’s a starting point — one that enables positive outcomes at work.
Some days, you just feel … blah.
It happens to all of us. It can be short-term, like when we’re exhausted or bored, or we’re embarking on a new project but have no idea where to start. Other times, it’s a little more long-term, like when we feel like we’re tapped out of good ideas, or stuck in our careers.
Motivated employees aren’t just a joy to be around at work. They also perform better, are more productive, and contribute to higher morale. Disengaged employees, on the other hand, are costly — both in terms of pay and team morale.
But every leader knows that motivating their team is hard. In fact, 30% of executives say that motivating their employees is actually their toughest job.
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Successful founders are productive. I’m not sure if they’re successful because they’re productive, or if they forced themselves to become productive because they wanted to be successful. It’s very much a chicken-or-egg question.
Some meetings are a total waste of time.
There’s nothing more frustrating than stopping your actual work to attend a meeting where everyone ends up staring at their laptops and nothing actually gets done.
It’s crazy how many hours we waste in meetings like these.
You know what an “average” speech looks like. You’ve seen tens, maybe hundreds of them in your lifetime. Chances are, you’ve given a few of them yourself. They’re good, and they’re useful, but they’re not awe-inspiring.
You might also know what an amazing speech looks like — one that’s engrossing, captivating, and inspires action.
Want to become more emotionally intelligent? Then you need to learn to control your negative emotions.
Even the most mild-mannered among us experience conflict every once in a while, whether it’s with co-workers, friends, family, or even strangers. And most of the time, we simply don’t have control over what happens, and/or how our peers react.
When I was in the fourth grade, one of my teachers encouraged me to audition for a children’s news program that would provide a “young perspective” on current events and happenings around the city.
Shortly after I’d started to prepare for the audition, my parents got a call from one of the producers.
