Whose life are you living? . . . . . .your imperfect one? Or the one someone else thinks you should be living?
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Arrogance at Work – How Should You Handle It?
Is it ever OK to tolerate arrogance in the workplace? This is the central question that became apparent to me after I wrote a post about how to find empathy for the office jerk. After reading the excellent comments from People Equation readers, I realized that a distinction was in order: the answer depends on…
3 Questions to Refocus Your Life Plan
It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time when broadcast journalist Diane Sawyer was stuck. Shortly after college graduation (where she majored in “Identity Crisis and Self-Absorption, with a minor in Poetry and Daydreaming”1) she returned home, feeling aimless and unsettled. Her father asked her these three questions to help her get…
4 Questions to Ask for Coping with Digital Stress
According to this infographic on digital stress and your brain, multi-tasking could be slowly killing you. “Not me,” you say with full confidence, “I’m a great multi-tasker.” No, you’re not. We humans suck at multitasking, but we mistakenly think we’re quite good at it. Take for example, the graphic called out in The Multitasking Lifestyle. You…
What’s Your Leadership Legacy?
So I’m standing there, talking with a seventy-year-old man, who has recently retired from his career as a vice president overseeing hundreds of workers each day. His wife is undergoing cancer treatment and he lays this on me: “Jen, with Nancy’s illness, I’ve realized I was such a jerk as a boss. My people would…