If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get...
Everyone cares - but we rarely want to do the work. We want the positive outcomes, but no one wants to be on the hook for creating change. The truth is, we should all strive to be more like vampire bats. Confused? Stay with me. It will make sense soon....
The world is full of bleeding hearts. There’s an abundance of good causes we care about. Genuinely. When something happens in the world we gasp, we cry, we fire off tweets in outrage. I’m saying we, talking about myself, and trusting I’m not alone. Our emotions are...
Frederick Herzberg has the kind of name you would assume belongs to a great scientist, psychologist or philosopher without me needing to tell you. He’s the mind behind the two-factor motivation theory. Herzberg suggested that there are two mutually exclusive sets of factors in the workplace which drive both...
I've got a challenge for you this week. You might not like it, but promise me you'll try: Go outside and strike up a conversation with a stranger. A conversation I had reminded me about how different the social skills of different generations might be depending...
