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To Spread Excellence You Need Excellence To Spread
Photo Credit: Flickr In the book Scaling Up Excellence (which I recently reviewed), Stanford professors Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao said this: “To spread excellence, you need to have some excellence...
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Ethical dilemma: An overseas distributor sanctioned over corruption
Photo Credit: Flickr I was recently quoted in a BBC Capital’s work ethic article titled “Treading a fine line: A case of corruption?” by Chana Schoenberger. However, some rather important details were...
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Introverts Are Excellent Just As They Are
For those unable to watch the video on my blog, you can watch it directly on the TED Talk website, Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Here is a great 19-minute TED Talk by Susan Cain, author of the...
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In Chinese: Crisis Does NOT Mean Danger and Opportunity
JFK was wrong. On pinyin.info, a website about the Chinese language, Victor H. Mair, a professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, firmly corrects an American...
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Critically Examine Information to Avoid Garbage In, Gospel Out
#161844932 / gettyimages.com One of the aims of my WorkplacePsychology.Net blog is to encourage and insist on evidence-based practices. A huge pet peeve of mine is the stating of opinions or thoughts...
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Cajoling and Betraying Trust
#169987545 / gettyimages.com The Oxford American Dictionary defines cajoling as “persuad[ing] someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery.” It’s another way of describing how we sweet-talk...
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100 Things You Need to Know: Best People Practices for Manager and HR
Description (from a Lominger flyer): In 100 Things, three internationally-recognized experts in human capital management provide the research behind the best people practices in an easy-to-read and...
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Stop Telling People You’re a “Thought Leader” Because You’re Not
#484526659 / gettyimages.com Is Thought Leadership Old Wine In New Bottles? There are certain words/phrases that irks me to no end — thought leader or thought leadership is one of them. I cringe every...
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The Pitfalls of Telecommuting
Coworkers discussing project on digital tablet | Credit: Thomas Barwick I was contacted by a TV Producer at BBC News regarding my thoughts about the pitfalls of working at home. I am reposting my...
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Talking Too Much and Not Listening
Businessmen discussing in office | Credit: Morsa Images In a previous life and time, I worked as a mental health counselor. I was trained in the art of listening and would periodically have my...
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Listening To Music While Working Can Be Distracting
Young man working at computer with headphones on | Credit: Jose Luis Pelaez I’ve heard college students and even business professionals claim that listening to music while working made them more...
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Are You Depressed Because of Your Job or Are You Depressed Regardless?
Businessman sitting on floor in corridor | Credit: Blend_Images A Careers Reporter for Business Insider contacted me about signs that a person’s job is making him/her depressed. I’ve been wanting to...
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Giving Feedback Is Easy, Much Harder to Accept, Learn From, and Apply It
Business meeting in a modern office | Credit: Hinterhaus Productions About 15 years ago, I was enrolled in a counseling psychology Master’s program. It was quite good and I learned a lot back then and...
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Cost of Stress on the U.S. Economy Is $300 Billion? Says Who?
Young businesswoman working in office | Credit: BJI / Lane Oatey In 2011, I wrote an article about the true cost of job stress. In that article, I cited Dr. Rebecca Goldin (a Professor at George Mason...
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Book Review: Leaders Ready Now
NOTE: For this book review, I intentionally and excessively quoted the authors throughout the post. I do this for two reasons: (1) I prefer to have the authors words speak for themselves rather than...
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Why It’s Necessary To Fight Work Stress And How To Do It
Tired businesswoman with head in hands looking away | Credit: Caiaimage/Agnieszka Wozniak A writer asked for my thoughts about why it is necessary to fight work stress and how to do it. Here’s my...
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Don’t Waste Time Trying To Discredit Others
I love this quote: “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” – James Thurber In Career Architect Development Planner (4th ed.), in the 19 Career Stallers and Stoppers...
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Characteristics of a Team and Barriers to Effective Team Functioning
Businesspeople beginning meeting in office | Credit: Thomas Barwick Back in 2010, I posted a short list titled, “Eight Common Problems Teams Encounter.” In it, I reposted the contents of what was...
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To Deceive Using Truthful Statements is Called Paltering
Lying | Credit: P Wei Deceiving Others By Using the Truth Paltering is “an active form of deception that involves the use of truthful statements to convey a mistaken impression” (Rogers, Zeckhauser,...
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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)
Bearded man makes business in the web | Credit: golero I received an email asking if I would write about Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) from an Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychology...
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