There Is No Crying in Business

The workplace is one of those environments where most tears are viewed as inappropriate and can have negative or detrimental effects on performance reviews, promotions, and executive presence. In other words, tears make us look bad and lead to a personal undermining of our sense of competence and ...

Organize Your Filing Systems: A Four-Step Formula That Really Works

Creating a filing system that works for you is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A good filing system will put you back in control, enhance your professional image and increase productivity. Read more...

Learning to Ask

All the negotiation advice in the world is useless if you never get to the bargaining table in the first place. No one has looked at how people know what they can ask for—what’s negotiable—and what is not. No one has studied the factors that constrain or encourage people to negotiate, or ...

Self-Esteem: A Marriage of Confidence and Self-Respect

Self-esteem is not simply a matter of feeling good about yourself—though legions of motivational cheerleaders would have you believe so. The "feeling good" definition is far too simple—and largely unreliable. Too simple because it doesn't give you anything to work with. Unreliable because fee...

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