Reframe
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My Generation Is Best, The Other . . . Not So Much
That OTHER Generation is IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!! One of my favorite team building exercises is to put people of the same generation together and have them describe the other generations. I have them make a list of the characteristics of the other… Continue reading
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I Hate My Boss!
Unless you’re independently wealthy, you probably have to figure out how to deal with a boss you hate–at least for a while. Pretty much everyone has this problem at some point in their career. The good news is that you… Continue reading
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Genericize Yourself, Increase Your Options
Broaden Your Opportunities For the first ten years of my career, I did product development and operations at an electronic publisher. Before the Internet. Explaining what I did was very hard. (It would be a lot easier now). When I… Continue reading
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Being Told “No” Changed My Life
The most important lessons I have learned came from people who told me “No,” or “Do it faster.” NO! I was “reorganized” into managing a large department with twenty managers reporting to me. Only a few of those managers had… Continue reading
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Get Ready to Lose Your Job
I hope you never need this advice. Chances are good, though, that you will–even if you are a high potential, can’t-do-anything-wrong super dooper employee. Most of us end up out on the job hunt street in our career. The number… Continue reading
