A Traveling Nightmare – When My Job Shows Its Ugly Teeth
Hello, all! I’m writing this to you from my “second office,” which is my fancy code word for “tiny baby…
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Creating a Great Culture Even With Temporary or Entry-Level Workers
Hi everyone! Matt Havens here again. Last month I stepped in for Jeff to talk about performance reviews. Since nobody…
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How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2
We brought back Part 1 last month and here is the follow-up. We interviewed real Human Resource executives across the…
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What Airlines Taught me About the Power of Repetition
I’d like to apologize to the airline industry. I’m sorry, airline industry, because I’m about to make fun of you.…
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Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective
The Price of Focusing Too Much on ‘Greatness’ So yet another Steve Jobs movie came out a few months ago. …
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Traveling Outside Your Comfort Zone
So last month I went to Jamaica for the first time, where I was keynoting a conference for a bunch…
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It’s Performance Review Time!
Hi everyone! Matt Havens here stepping in for Jeff this month. Jeff and I had the opportunity to catch up…
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The Two Types of Innovation
Greetings, all! I’m writing this from the back of a giraffe. I’m upside down, too, since that makes the blood…
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Three Reasons Your Current Leadership Training Completely and Totally Sucks
(And Three Ways To Fix It) I’d like to begin by saying that this article isn’t an attack on you…
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Why People Prefer Innovation to Invention
So innovation is a big buzzword these days. (Do people still say ‘buzzword’? Is buzzword still a buzzword?) Approximately half…
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How Your Weirdness Can Build a Vibrant Corporate Culture
So I’ve been living in Texas now for three months, which I think is long enough to really appreciate some…
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Common Strategies for Ruining an Otherwise Excellent Presentation
Hi. I deliver presentations for a living, primarily because nobody wants to work with me for a full eight hours…
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3 Simple Ways To Turn An Embarrassing Situation To Your Advantage
So in a nutshell, here’s how every funny person is born:
5 Things I Learned From Doing a TED Talk
As some of you know, I gave my first TED talk a couple weeks ago. (I wrote it that way…
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Why Aren’t More of Us Engaged At Work – My TEDx Talk
I was honored to get the opportunity to speak at TEDxNormal a couple of months ago and Mr. TED recently…
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Choose Your Year-End Perspective
Hello, and welcome to the end of another year! You’ve probably unofficially stopped working already, since the period between Thanksgiving…
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12 Wildly Unlikely Predictions for 2016
OK, so you’re about to start reading a bunch of articles that are going to try to put 2015 into…
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3 Simple Ways To Not Feel Like An Impostor
As some of you may know, my wife is an organic chemist. In case you didn’t have to suffer through…
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What Should Happen When You Text In Meetings
Meeting etiquette training time! Turn off your cell phones during meetings or this might happen!
17 Motivational Thoughts You Need Today! A Motivational Explosion
You know, it’s occurred to me that way too many people are dissatisfied with themselves. It seems like every time…
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The Most Important Number You’ve Never Heard Of
There are a lot of numbers in my life. There are telephone numbers, of course, a few of which I…
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