It's Monday morning and you've just woken up. You'd love to bite on some tasty pancakes, but unfortunately your stomach is in a knot from all the stress you feel just thinking about going to work. As you're driving, your mind fills with all of the crap you have to deal with this week. You...
Quality managers have always searched after "willpower" as a needed trait in their teams, but what if "willpower" wasn't as much a quality someone possesses, but more of a resource people draw from? A recent article by David McRaney at You Are Not So Smart shows that this may be the case. So how could...
Bored at work? Why don't you play a game? Half your co-workers do according to a recent study by Saatchi and Saatchi. But why is that? Why are we more motivated to farm make-believe apples on Facebook rather than finishing the report due tomorrow or making one more sales call? What do these game designers...
So, you described that guy as an "introvert." That's kind of like a wallflower, right? Nope. Well, that's pretty much what Dictionary.com says. See? But experts like Susan Cain, Lisa Petrilli, and Marti Olsen Laney offer a new definition for introvert. A better one, if you ask me. But maybe that's because these experts recently lifted a burden...
Today we are pleased to have a guest post from Ikuto. So you have landed that dream job of yours that gives you the opportunity to apply your skills and make a fair amount of money. Everything seems to be going very well at first, but then you find that the work you do can...
Even if you start of on the right foot in your job seeking efforts, it’s very easy to become discouraged after you face rejection after rejection, or when weeks go by without a callback. In today’s job market, there’s a lot of competition for skilled jobs, and the length of time It’s taking people to...
Do you have family that lecture you about the correct way to do your job, or in-laws at family dinners who never stop talking? These are all indicators of the DISC style they exhibit. Over the Memorial Day weekend, I had several opportunities to sit down and reflect on just how unique each of my...
When I heard these words a week ago my eye's sparkled and something in my brain went, "Yep, you're clicking that." What I saw next has stuck with me since. So I'm here today to share what I saw and why you too "will fail to have a great career." An Economist's View On Careers...
