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  • Plans and excuses

    Have you ever experienced a point in your life where you simply know what to do? Did those plans come vividly to your mind? But now that you finally can do something about them, did you commit to an action plan? Often, it’s so easy to identify what should be done. When it’s time to Read more


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  • Imagination and career shift

    Sometimes I wonder how, as children, you can see things that are not there. I’d like to think that all children, regardless of family income, are imaginative one way or another. Take, for example, my niece handed me a chunk of orange puzzle pieces one afternoon. She told me that it was a pizza with Read more


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  • Causes of stress

    Feeling stressed lately? There are times I feel stressed, too, and I wanted to know how to handle stress. But what is stress exactly? Stress results when demand is greater than your ability to address it. From the course I took on building personal resilience, these are what causes stress: 1. Time demands. Time stressors Read more


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  • It can’t be done vs. I won’t do it

    When you already finished an output you think is good but then later find that your boss or colleague has comments about it that required some changes, you may begin to roll your eyes. As tempting as it is to respond with, “I’ve thought about it and tried to do something earlier, but it can’t Read more


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  • How to assess whether to have a meeting or not

    In the middle of your workday, you receive an email telling you that the office will have a meeting tomorrow before lunch. And then, you tell yourself that the meeting could have been just an email. At the back of your mind, you know that the meeting was just an excuse to have a free Read more


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  • Some meetings should have been emails

    Are you tired of attending meetings that end nowhere? Me too. And do you know that not all things need to be discussed in a meeting? You say, “How’s that possible?” Technology made it possible. If you want to know whether you need to do a meeting or not, the chart below will help you Read more


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  • Losing sleep and leadership

    Research shows that sleep deprivation doesn’t just hurt individual performance: when managers lose sleep, their employees’ experiences and output are diminished too. Sleep Well, Lead Better Read more


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