A Second Chance to Fix a Bad First Impression
There’s nothing worse than walking away from a job interview or meeting someone for the first time and smashing the heel of your hand to forehead while crying out, “I really blew it!”We’re constantly...
View ArticleHow to Keep People Awake During Meetings
No one wants to be boring, and yet how often do you find yourself pinching yourself during a speech trying to stay awake?Perhaps the reason for bad presentations is because speaking in public is one of...
View ArticleMaking Copies, Stopping Planes, and Other Feats of Great Assistants
If you're smart, you understand the power assistants hold.Melba J. Duncan, for instance, once stopped a plane. The former executive assistant to Pete Peterson, former CEO of Lehman Brothers, Duncan...
View ArticleOn Quitting: How to Jump Ship without Drowning
At some point in your career, you've probably dreamed about it: the day that you quit your job.Maybe you envision you'll shoot up out of your cubicle, march gallantly over to your awful boss's office,...
View ArticleLove Thy Office Frenemies
Friendship at work can be a special kind of torture.We spend most of our waking hours with our coworkers, so right off the bat, we have a lot in common with them. But the intensity of a work friendship...
View ArticleWhen Bad Listeners Grow Up to Be Bosses
For the horrible listeners in your office, the advice to get them to pay attention is pretty straightforward:1. Slow down. 2. Stop talking.3. Listen.But Amy Jen Su, an executive coach with Paravis...
View ArticleFive Reasons to Swipe Right on a New Job
It's the age of the fickle worker.Business psychology professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says technological innovations make us extremely aware of all the options out there — both in dating and in the...
View ArticleAt Work: Making Yourself Heard
Dorie Clark is an author, a marketing strategy consultant, and a business professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. People listen to her.But when she entered the workforce at the age of...
View ArticleAt Work: How to Succeed (as/with) a Kid Boss
The dynamics of authority in an office — figuring out how to be a boss or dealing with your own boss — are tricky enough without throwing age into the mix. How does it feel to have a manager who's...
View ArticleAt Work: When Your Boss Isn't So Bright
There are a lot of bad bosses out there."As I like to say, there are different flavors of bad bosses," adds Amy Gallo, an editor at the Harvard Business Review. When the flavor is "dumber than you,"...
View ArticleGood Meeting
What’s the most inappropriate thought you’ve ever had during a meeting? What if you said it aloud—and everyone else at the conference table did the same? In Colin Nissan’s Daily Shouts piece“Good...
View ArticleWill the Pandemic Be the End of Office Life as We Know It?
For most of the twentieth century, the office was one of the centers of American life, and the joys and annoyances of life there have inspired works of art, from Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” to...
View ArticleBorder Report from El Paso; Councilmember Joseph C. Borelli; New York Court...
On today's show:With Title 42 expulsions at the southern border set to expire, an influx of migrants in search of asylum has arrived in El Paso. Uriel García, immigration reporter at The Texas Tribune,...
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