One of the ways we can become more hopeful about ourselves is to continually step back from the daily deluge of information. When we do, we will likely remember two human tendencies. 1) We engage in negative biasing, which is…
Read More We’re not as Bad as We Think We Are (so keep your hopes up).
(Adapted from the Common Outlook Business/People Change program) If you’re extremely busy; or don’t understand the impact your Attitude is having on your career/life; or typically avoid facing ‘your own worst enemy’, the following can be seen as a hefty…
“For years, I used anger to intimidate others so I could feel powerful. I didn’t make that discovery until after I was fired, and it took a while for me to understand that my need for power was an attempt…
“from reaction to response, how attitude determines the culture” I don’t know if a work environment ever soured for you the way it did for Ted; but even if not, you have an idea of ‘comeuppance’, and will understand his…
Last month we offered a snapshot of how Boomers (ages 50-66) and Millennials (19-30) define “professional” conduct differently. In a nutshell, Boomers see more distinction than Millennials do between how they behave at home and at work. Millennials have been…
Read More “It’s not the job you do; it’s how you do the job.”
Despite all the usual strife one reads about (and may experience directly) between and among generations, it seems that intergenerational gaps can’t break family bonds; 84 percent of Millennials (ages 19 to 30) and 54 percent of Baby Boomers (ages…
We espoused tradition in December, and here we are in January, combining the Founder’s Message and article, and breaking a long-standing practice. Worse, we’re going to suggest you break a habit, too ... specifically the one called: making a New Year’s resolution.
It’s a festive time of year! People in every corner of the world are buying or constructing gifts, making candles and candy, decorating their houses, issuing invitations, taking-out treasured family recipes or googling ethnic dishes for a new immigrant.
Ready for a collaboration discovery? We’ll preamble for a bit while you clear some space for it, which means setting aside any secret superiority felt or pride taken in being a Leader, and gently elbowing away any deference you show…
*one’s culture/another’s ignorance Ethnocentric? William G. Sumner defined it as "the technical name for the view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...often leading…
