We’re much more specific in our criticism than in our praise. Time to correct the imbalance.
“Nice job.” “Good work.” No more than two syllables, they’re just about the easiest possible ways to praise people. That’s why we tend to keep hearing those phrases tossed around the office, despite endless advice and admonitions (themselves bordering on cliché) that there are right ways and wrong ways to give positive feedback and even that praise itself is addictive.
Before you can take full ownership of your work, you need to see things as they really are, and understand how they got that way.
I’ll never forget a tense conversation I had with my leadership team about the launch of a key tech product. We were discussing why we weren’t getting broad adoption among our users. One of my team members in the company, which operates in the home-improvement sector, offered this explanation: “This industry is just slow to adopt new technologies.”
There are more ways to work for yourself than you might think. Before you file that LLC paperwork, consider these options.
So you’ve decided you want to work for yourself. Seems straightforward enough, right? Your next step, so it would seem, would be to figure out the legal structure of your newfound self-employment.
You don’t need to totally overhaul your schedule to give your introverted brain the space it needs to refuel.
We all need a little space to mentally process life and recharge so we can function at our best and enjoy time with others. It’s just that introverts may need more of it. For introverts, time alone is as essential as sleeping or eating. Not getting enough can cause frustration, resentment, and fatigue to set in.
Preparation is everything. These are the backup plans you’ll need in order to get by in a pinch.
Years ago, Wi-Fi wouldn’t have factored into your plans to be away from your desk. But just like you wouldn’t go back to making calls from a phone attached to the wall, being without Wi-Fi (unless, of course, you paid to go somewhere and “unplug”) seems unfathomable.
Is Google’s answer to Siri and Alexa a reinvention of search, or just repackaging?
Among all the AI helpers from major tech companies, Google Assistant is the most mysterious.
A trip to Singapore with Samsung’s Gear 360 showed how VR fills a void between photos and videos that I didn’t even realize existed.
The iPhone was hard to come by when it first came out. Even if you were willing to pay the exorbitant price, it had sold out in just a few hours in my hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. So when I pulled mine out at bars or on street corners, I was exceptionally popular. People wanted to see it and talk to me about it. They wanted to understand how it worked. And after talking to me for 10 minutes, they wanted one.
In one writer’s view, many women’s reluctance to talk candidly about money is muting their efforts to close the gender pay gap.
I was at dinner recently with some close female friends when the conversation veered into uncomfortable territory: Money. More specifically, what we currently earn versus how we’d like to be compensated.
Mya, an AI platform from FirstJob, aims to make sure no applicant goes into the void—and no recruiter has to wade through a sea of resumes.
Eyal Grayevsky talks a lot about black holes, but he’s not referring to the ones in outer space.
You have just a few days to learn everything there is to know about a subject you know nothing about. Now what?
“Don’t boil the ocean,” Terry said as he slapped a tall stack of papers on my desk. “Just tell us what we need to know.”
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