3 Keys to Personal Motivation
Eventually, all managers learn that if they want a person to make some changes, whether stopping a frustrating behavior or… more
Author: Dan Erwin
How to Keep Your Enemies Closer Than Your Friends
In April 2015, I wrote a blog questioning, “Why Should You Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer?” With an excess… more
Is Job Security Really All About “Who You Know?”
A little exercise in critical thinking. Recently, I received an email from LinkedIn with the familiar heading regarding job security,… more
Why You Need to Think and Talk on Two Tracks (Part 2)
In complex business conversations, metacomm can profoundly impact conversations and make them far more constructive and efficient—even timesaving. To a… more
How To Deal with Bosses and Colleagues Who Are Assholes
How do you deal with people who treat you like dirt? That’s a question you can read in social… more
Why You Need to Think and Talk on Two Tracks (Part One)
One of the most difficult problems with collaborative conversation is staying on track. Smart people inevitably get waylaid by tangential… more
Thinking: It’s Not
Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. –Goethe Nearly a year ago, after reading our blog, Habitual Striking vs.… more
Fearful You’ll Lose Your Job to Artificial Intelligence?
Two of MIT’s most knowledgeable guys on artificial intelligence, Andrew McAFee and Erik Brynjolfsson, will tell you to cool it.… more
“Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)”
I’ve had the above book setting on my shelves since it was first published in 2007. The title was a… more