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273: Designed To Play

The Red-Tape Blame-Game...

272: Ask Why Repeatedly To Irritate Others

Into Success...

#271: Laboring Under Confusion

Here’s a quote that, I hope, will settle the work from home debate: Whether...

#270: Make Assumptions Loudly and Clearly

So That We Know What You’re Up To...

#269: Thank Goodness Friday

Puts You Closer to Monday...

268: It’s a Human Quirk

To Drive To Save on Gas...

267: Want To Be a Decision Player?

First Be a Trusted Performer...

#266: Know Yourself

To Stop the Shaking...

#265: Reverse Sexual Harassment at Work

Or working from home...

#264: We Too Easily Forget

That Obligations Earn Rights...

263: Wear Smart

To Be Smart...

#262: Redundant Communication

Gets Nagging Results...

#261: When capable employees leave

What happens?...

260: To Be Really Effective

We Need Opposing Qualities...

#259: Things Happen Because Boss Is Boss

Is Bossy...

#258: Your Ignorance Should Engage You,

Not Glaze You...

#257: To Trigger Failure,

Delegate What You Dislike...

#256: Maybe Can Save Us

From the Torment of Polarizing Extremes...

#255: We Hide Behind Assessments at Work

To Stop Our Authentic Selves From Surfacing...

#254: Earn Your Daily Brat

Once a Year...

#253: Always collaborate

It resists the tug of sub-optimization...

#252: Don’t Co-Operate

It Leads to Sub-Optimization...

#251: Focus on the Demands of the Job

Not on the Demands for the Job...

#250 Fire Everyone

Except Your Star Performer...

#249: Don’t complain about what happened

if you can’t contribute to making it happen...

#248: Practice being luckier

at random success...

#247: We all benefit

from this capital measure of success...

#246: When to Heed the Ring Tone of Failure

...

#245: Expecting more of the same

is just insane...

#244: Want to make a million?

Then be good at Plan B...

#243: Manage Your History

Or Be Ignored by the Future...

#242: Take a Stand in the Sand

To Propel Past Pitfalls...

#241: When People Won’t Change

Try Feinting...

#240: It’s Time To Wake Up

to Your Rules...

#239: Do you need a mentor or a coach?

How to decide...

#238: Suspicious minds at work

can lead to divorce...

#237: Try Less Dream, More Resolution

...