Composing the Perfect Interview Question
In this article we’re going to talk about how to craft strong, insightful questions to ask during your next interview…
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How To Take Initiative
Making important decisions, acting like a leader, being a person your colleagues can count on to get the job done…
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The Most Important Step In Conflict De-Escalation
There are a lot of ways to handle conflict. A popular one is to escalate them by avoiding the contentious…
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Your Ethical Framework Begins With Respect
You’ve certainly heard people talk about ethics before. Companies everywhere talk about doing business in an ethical manner, and you…
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The Single Best Technique to Prepare for a Presentation
In the past two decades I’ve delivered well over a thousand presentations, mostly live but also increasingly virtual as well…
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Will AI Eventually Destroy Humanity?
Last month I wrote an article about the way that technology impacts the nature of human work. (You can read…
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Will AI Eventually Destroy Your Job?
As everyone in the writing world knows, ChatGPT has come, and the end is nigh. Pretty soon the written word…
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Negotiate Like a Child
I’m just coming off a very lovely few weeks with my family. We saw friends, went skiing, and spent 12…
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Destroying the Myth of the Disloyal Young Worker
As 2022 draws to a close, there are two issues that seem to have completely dominated the year – supply…
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The Most Important Sentence in Leadership
At its most basic, effective leadership consists of two key components. One of them is the human element – that’s…
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What You Can Learn from Pig Farmers and Pharmacies
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about my job is the opportunity to meet people living in places I…
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How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking
Last month, something happened to me at an event that hasn’t happened in well over a decade. I wish it…
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Is Striving For Consensus Keeping You From Moving Forward?
Recently my wife and I were in Barcelona, visiting her family and 87 of their closest friends. (Not quite, but…
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Having Trouble Hiring?
In the last several months I’ve spoken at a few dozen conferences. And at every single one of them –…
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Why We Sometimes Give Up On Our Goals (And Why That’s OK)
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. I also wanted to be a builder (which was…
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Three Things All Employees Want
To be fair, there are probably more than three things all employees want. Most employees would probably take a million…
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The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader
Every minute, approximately 765,000 articles about leadership are written. That’s only a slight exaggeration, because we are collectively obsessed with…
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Do Apologies Really Matter?
Recently somebody got mad at me for something they shouldn’t have. That’s not just my opinion, either; they even agreed…
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Why Do We Achieve Some Goals and Not Others?
So it’s a new year, which means it’s time to do something different. At least that’s what everyone else seems…
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Reimagining the Power of Positive Thinking
Everybody’s heard of the power of positive thinking – and if you’re like me, then the phrase is vaguely annoying. …
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How ‘The Great Resignation’ Can Work to Your Advantage
By now you’ve heard the news – everyone is quitting every job everywhere. Nobody is actually employed anymore, and the…
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