It can be awfully frustrating to feel like you are explaining something to someone over and over again, and they just are not getting it. Are they deaf? Are they not very smart? What’s wrong with these people??? Well, it’s possible that you have the Curse of Knowledge. What is the Curse of Knowledge? It […]

Sometime in January or February, you may be planning to have your kickoff meeting for the new year. If you’re part of a big MNC you may have leaders visiting from outside the country, and if you’re smaller it may just be a team where everyone knows everyone. Whatever your situation, a kickoff session can […]

Networking is important part of your employees’ jobs (and yours, too, for that matter). It’s valuable for continuous learning, because it consistently exposes people to new practices and new ways of thinking. While we often think of networking as something we do during a job search, there is so much more to it than that. […]

Kate Morton’s 2013 novel The Secret Keeper spends its pages “[s]hifting between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present[…]The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, theatre and thievery, murder and enduring love.” Those are awesome things to have in a novel. They are horrible things to have in the workplace. If […]

It’s fashionable to say that you hate meetings, but let’s be honest: we need them. As organizations try to encourage collaboration and develop synergy between employees, there’s no getting away from the fact that people need to actually talk to each other. Whether it’s one-on-one or in a larger group, meetings need to happen. The […]