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Work-Life Balance: “Accomplish What You Want, Not What You Think You Have to”
Brad Feld on Work-Life Balance Here is an excellent podcast (summary here) where Venture Capitalist Brad Feld discusses his thoughts on the concept of work-life balance. He also shares the changes he implemented to achieve more balance in his life. … Continue reading
How to Create More Time
Blogger Carla Kay White reflects on how she “found time” by transforming her mindset about being overwhelmed. … it occurred to me that I’m feeling overwhelmed because that’s precisely the message I’m putting out in the world. I repeat it … Continue reading
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Warren Buffett’s Rule of Thumb on Personal Integrity
On occasion, personal integrity and ethical conduct can be challenging. Greed, selfishness, distrust and other inclinations can result in misrepresentations, deliberate omission of facts to throw a positive spin on things, purposeful oversight, misuse of information and self-interested behavior. Warren … Continue reading
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People Want Their Thinking to Count
Everybody Desires to be Heard Last week, a manager complained that his boss constantly pushes his ideas with a “here’s what I want you to do” even though the manager is a subject expert. A wife criticized her husband for … Continue reading
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Seek Hideouts for Interruption-free Work
The High Cost of Interruptions Studies suggest that, on average, workers are interrupted once every ten and a half minutes, once interrupted, it takes a worker 23 minutes on average to get back to the task he/she was working on, … Continue reading
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Meal Manners: Pace Yourself, Start and Finish with Others
As a guest, when your host asks you to order first, ask her for recommendations. This can hint at a price range from which to pick. As a host, urge your guests to order first. Then, try to order as … Continue reading
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How to Overcome Shyness in Initiating Conversations
Uneasiness in Striking up Conversations The introverts among us do not like being the center of attention and the life of parties. We prefer small get-togethers with a selected group of familiar friends. We have a tendency to shy away … Continue reading
[Personal Finance #1] The Eight Guiding Principles of Successful Investors
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. once you’re above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.” * Warren Buffett … Continue reading
[Ideas for Impact #39] Systems Thinking as a Trait for Career Success
In this Fast Company article, Gary Flake, Director of Live Labs at Microsoft identifies Systems Thinking as an important trait for career success. There are three traits that will serve anyone wanting any role at any company, not just ours: … Continue reading
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Pretending to Know-it-All and Failing to Admit Ignorance
Often, professionals suppose that being considered smart, intelligent, or “on top of things” implies presenting themselves with much self-confidence, and requiring knowing everything. Consequently, they tend to force themselves to pretend to “know it all” and hesitate to respond with … Continue reading
