Working On The Side
A recent article in Fast Company explored companies’ willingness to let employees engage in “side hustles,” or doing work outside the company. This has gotten bigger than simply driving for Uber; that outside work can get pretty involved and, in the eyes of some companies, can be very beneficial. Obviously, you cannot allow an outside […]
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- Nov, 09, 2017
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Nov, 09, 2017
Look Before You Leap
“If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you jump off it too?” As a kid, you may have been scolded by your mom for doing something, and then told her, “Well, everyone else was doing it!” She would then respond with the question above, and if you were a real smartass you would answer […]
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- Nov, 06, 2017
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Gaslighting
Over on Medium (and if you’re not reading, and writing on, Medium, why not???), Sarah Cooper offers on interesting take on the concept of “gaslighting” in the workplace. If you are not familiar with the term “gaslighting,” it is a form of manipulation designed to get people to doubt themselves. She offers 8 “tips” in […]
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- Nov, 02, 2017
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Being Social
While there are still plenty of ways in which your employees work independently, in many cases you need them to contribute to each other’s work and leverage each other’s experience. A strong culture of mutual contribution helps your bottom line when you find that two people can do more together than either could do independently. […]
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- Oct, 30, 2017
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There Will Always Be Those People
Talking recently with an experienced employee in Malaysia’s creative industries, he told us about a certain type of person he had been dealing with lately. As he moved from assignment to assignment he kept encountering supervisors who seemed closed-minded and who had attitudes suggesting that they, and only they, knew everything, and didn’t want to […]
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- Oct, 26, 2017
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