As I was doom-scrolling my news feed the other day, I stumbled across an article entitled, "A Surprising Reason Why Depressed People Don't Get Better." (Psychology Today, October 13, 2023, if you want to Google it.) The article discussed two techniques that can help people overcome depression and talked about several studies where they taught …
Recently I read a LinkedIn post written by a recruiter, in the trending “my client said something so stupid and I schooled him” style. In this post, the recruiter’s client doubted a candidate’s loyalty because the candidate’s resume listed a series of jobs lasting 2 years or less. At first, I thought I might enjoy …
Sometimes I hear people say that they don’t understand why their boss wants to review their plan with them. Why their boss insists on check-in meetings to make sure everything is going okay. I’m a [fill in the blank] leader, they say, it’s my job to manage this stuff. Why are they checking up on …
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Poor Zach Wilson. Everyone is on his case because he’s not Aaron Rodgers and the Jets are losing big. It’s Zach’s fault, they say, he doesn’t do his homework, he can’t read the field. (He really can’t.) But… But Zach Wilson is not the first top draft pick that has failed at the Jets. The …
Are you ready to answer when opportunity knocks? Someone once told me, “Always Be Ready.” Since they told me this in the context of public speaking, I took it as a sign that I always needed to be ready to give a speech. And I decided if no one else signed up for a speech, …
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