Category: Business
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The way you interact can make or break your team – leadership and the power of praise
Picture this – an employee notices a mistake that could become costly or damage a company’s reputation if unnoticed. The mistake is not theirs; it is related to what they do, but was made by a colleague. The employee acts immediately by averting the danger – they go about solving the problem, notifying everyone who…
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The nightmare conflict between external perceptions of value and feeling needed
I recently had a most illuminating conversation on the topic of diversity. The conversation involved a very common work problem – the employee in question had been feeling (and objectively was) overburdened for quite some time. For a while, they tried to bear this burden in silence; finally, they gathered courage to speak up when…
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How does Bias work?
From technology to human resources, bias is a hot topic; it creeps into judicial processes, into innovation, into employment and diversity issues. Above all, bias can be very pervasive and hard to shift, because it can be very much entrenched into how we see things, until it’s literally hard to impossible to see without it.For…
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Discord : when someone is spreading rumours at the office
Humans live on rumours. That is why celebrity magazines make so much money. Why there is room for all manner of fake information in our societies. Why we spend at least some time discussing what ifs and maybes of not only our own but others’ lives.Evolutionarily, passing on information can be considered a matter of…
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When it’s nobody’s fault (and it can be)
Recently, I discussed a difficult situation with someone; it’s a situation that, sooner or later, represents us all. What happens when something goes wrong, but it’s nobody’s fault?Especially nowadays, when everything we are trying to do is difficult, not only because we are working from home (which can be more difficult… consider only that instead…