You didn’t win, but here’s a trophy for trying. Go you! Participation trophies are emblems of millennial entitlement, a well-intended effort to make kids feel special, even when they lost. It’s time to call it a day on this ruse. Kids know when they lose! If you want to.
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Are you great with details? Are you a team player? Are you a rock star networker? Those qualities will help your career – until they hurt your career. If you’re a man reading this and you’re about to stop, hang in there. You’re about to discover some new information.
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Have you heard about the fast growth Houston, Texas company that had their core values etched in stone in their lobby? Integrity was at the top. Still struggling to remember? They became really famous. It was Enron. Epic level value failures like Enron show up frequently in the news..
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Is it someone with a specific title, a handful of direct reports, or just a lot of experience? As organizational hierarchies fade and teams become more wide than they are deep, the need to lead without formal authority is on the rise. One mistake I see a lot high.
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Have you ever found yourself in an awkward situation at work? We all have, whether it’s what to say when your colleague beats you out for a promotion or dealing with a smelly co-worker. When LinkedIn Learning asked my partner Elizabeth Lotardo and me to create the course: Navigating.
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What if your work mattered so much to you that – on your deathbed – you found yourself wishing for one more day at the office? A few years ago, I lost my father. In the months before his death, I had time to reminisce with him about his.
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A recent Forbes article revealed that 65% percent of people would rather have a different boss than a raise. Take that in for a moment: People would trade money for a better boss. Words of leadership wisdom When I was 25 years old, my father shared something with me.
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When are you the most motivated? Chasing a huge opportunity? Or trying to avoid a major problem? Human motivation tends to boil down to two things: a desire for reward or fear of consequences. We call it the light of the solution vs. the heat of the problem. Unfortunately.
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It’s easy to identify organizations that lack a Noble Purpose. Stories inside the walls of Wells Fargo and TD Bank reveal the depths of customer deception and how an emphasis on sales and numbers can steer an organization in a certain direction. Let’s look at the TD Bank group.
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What if the ability to tell a good story made the difference between life and death of your entire species? It does. Most evolution drawings depict our species going from knuckle-dragging ape to hunched-over caveman to walking erect homo sapien. Recent evidence indicates the journey was less linear, and.
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