The Mouthwash Principle: For Max Effectiveness At Work, Rinse And Repeat If you really want to make an impact on people, influence behavior, and get your points across, it's time to get comfortable with repetition. Just ask your dentist.
Updated Wed May 23, 2012
The Challenge: Do One Emotionally Difficult Thing Every Day Once a day, pick something you’re scared to do or say and follow through. Take the blame for something that was your fault. Ask for a raise. Point out something to your boss that’s getting in the way of success. A few courageous minutes a day can make you a more powerful person.
Updated Thu May 3, 2012
How To Hire Your Organization's Capt. Sullenberger Some would argue that the only thing that predicts success in a job is actual success in that job. But there's one important interview question you need to ask if you want to place a person in a position to succeed, a question that would have predicted Capt. Sully had the potential to be not only be a great pilot, but a hero.
Updated Thu Sep 22, 2011
Finding Fresh Inspiration On Your Refrigerator Door Think your refrigerator door is a repository only for dry-cleaning receipts, shopping lists, and baby pictures of your niece? Re-imagine your fridge-front property and you might find inspiration staring back at you from the faces of strangers.
Updated Thu Sep 1, 2011
Flexing Your "No Thanks" Muscle When you catch yourself thinking "why not?" consider it a warning sign.
Posted Tue Jul 19, 2011
Three Steps To Handling The Unexpected When my friend Sam invited his new girlfriend Robyn to join him for a sailing trip, he was relatively new to the sport. He had pretty strong skills but not a lot of experience. She had neither.
Updated Thu Jul 7, 2011
Unlocking Your Success Equation Jim Wolfensohn was a second-year student at the University of Sydney when a friend of his and the captain of the fencing team, Rupert Bligh, asked if he wanted to go to Melbourne the next day to fence in the national university championships.
Posted Thu Jun 23, 2011
What To Do When You Have No Time To Think These busy days, we rarely analyze our experiences thoughtfully, contemplate the views of others carefully, or evaluate how the outcomes of our decisions should affect our future choices. Those things take time.
Posted Fri Jun 10, 2011
Getting Past A Communication Impasse What do you do when you have a communication impasse with someone you care about?
Posted Fri May 27, 2011
Too Much To Do? Take On More I know how to handle stress. I know that each day I need to get seven or eight hours of sleep and an hour or so of exercise. I know I need to meditate for a few minutes and eat normal sized, well-balanced meals.
Updated Wed May 11, 2011
The #1 Killer of Meetings (And What You Can Do About It) Over time, I identified a single factor that makes the biggest difference between a great meeting and a poor one: PowerPoint. The best meetings don't go near it.
Posted Fri Apr 15, 2011
Visualize Failure Adrenaline coursed throughout my body as I slowly inched my way toward the rapid. I positioned myself carefully as I entered the whitewater.
Updated Thu Mar 24, 2011
Don't Be Nice; Be Helpful If we don't provide each other with feedback, we won't become aware of our blind spots.
Updated Thu Mar 17, 2011
How to Use Your Super Power for Good We all have super powers. We can make people feel good or bad by as simple a thing as a gesture, an expression, a word, or a tone of voice.
Updated Wed Feb 16, 2011
Arguing Is Pointless In some rare cases, you might think the argument has merit. What then? Do you change your mind? Probably not. Instead, you make a mental note that you need to investigate the issue more to uncover the right argument to prove the person wrong.
Updated Wed Feb 9, 2011
There Is No I in Oscar--What the Academy Awards Tell Us About Teamwork Who should get the most credit for a product that brings in high revenue? The team who designed it? The people who marketed it? The sales force who sold it? Logically, we would have to say that the highest paid, most visible, most irreplaceable people are responsible--until we look at the list of Oscar nominees for 2010.
Updated Thu Feb 3, 2011
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