Read The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the domestic cable news websites, and you'd think the American economy was combusting before our eyes. Foreign newspapers, however, are much more sanguine on their English-language ...READ»
Encourage your pet pessimist:
Do you have a pet pessimist at work? Good. Every organization should have at least one.
Pessimists matter. They enhance your decision making and protect your success by balancing overconfident ...READ»
Expressing gratitude breeds optimists
Children don’t seem to say ‘thank you’ any more in public. This worries me. Not because I worry about ‘values’, but because I worry about ‘expectations’.
Let me explain. ...READ»
