I’ve written on failure before, including here and here, asserting there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it. But I was wrong. Failure is a mixed bag. There are times when failure is an acceptable option, and there are times when it is not.
A key aspect of increasing your level of productivity and success is your ability to work well with other people. Central to that is your skill at recognizing and honoring their emotions. We call this ability “empathy.” As I wrote recently, the
As you know, I’m intensely interested in productivity and success, and in finding ways to boost them both. So I was intrigued to come across an interesting perspective that can help that quest. It involves dividing up activities, efforts, and plans into
“You didn’t do that very well, did you?” “You made the wrong choice.” “That was stupid.” We’ve all heard critical comments like these directed at us; they’re part of living. But there’s a major difference between hearing those kinds of comments coming
As I’ve written many times before, pretty much the only constant these days is change. And when change happens, nearly always the appropriate response is to update something in order to make it mesh well with the new situation and better handle
As I’ve written recently, I spent many years tracking the time on spent on each of my daily, weekly, and monthly projects. That served me well, as it gave me the data I needed to eliminate time-wasters so I could focus in
I’ve written often about the need for and benefit of working well with others. This time around, I’d like to revisit this topic from a different perspective: empathy. It’s defined as the ability to understand or identify with another person’s situation or
I’ve written several times before about failure, including its inevitability: “Have you ever known anyone who never experienced failure?” I wrote. “Of course not. We all live. We all breathe. And we all fail – at least sometimes. That seems to be
We’ve all heard of mentoring and the value it can bring to a person’s level of productivity and success, as well as to their short-, medium-, and long-term career trajectory. But in my experience, there are too many people who don’t get
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time and energy conversing with other people. Often, you initiate the conversation because there’s something you want to tell them or ask them or simply want them to see. The problem is, many
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