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How Freelancers Can Emerge Strong After the COVID Shutdown
A successful career is as much a mental game as an employment game. That means your mindset is far more…
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Be Careful When Employees Recommend People for Jobs at Your Organization
A new study called “Tainted Recommendations: The Social Comparison Bias” reports that when an employee recommends someone to hire or…
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This is the Age of Nimble
Bureaucracy is dead, and this is the age of “nimble.” Trust me on this – if your organization has silos, turf…
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Six Principles Worth Remembering At Work
While working on a media project with a client recently, our strategist Dawn Nicole Baldwin dropped a few random but timely…
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When Disruption Threatens Your Organization, Which Side Are You On?
When change happens – particularly something new and disruptive – people within an organization generally fall into two groups: Those…
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Why Your Point Person on a Project is Critical
At some point, your organization is going to work with a vendor, consultant, or other outside group. It could be…
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It’s Time to Decide: Are You An Amateur Or Professional?
At some point in our careers we need to decide how serious we are about the pursuit. As the old…
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Why You Need to Be Looking for Your Next Job Now
I get a lot of phone calls and emails from people looking for jobs. They’ve been fired, laid off, whatever,…
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The Power of Staying in a Difficult Situation
In the worlds of business, nonprofit, church, and universities there are plenty difficult and frankly terrible places to be. I…
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Leaders Should Never Control Employees By Keeping Secrets
This post isn’t about leaders keeping secrets about sexual affairs, mismanaged money, or harassment. That’s bad enough. But this is…
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