Tag: culture contact
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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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Is Monday causing you the deep blue blues? Coping with changes to coping
Monday blues – who hasn’t heard of it? It’s that anxious, sinking feeling that can last all weekend (starting, in fact, before Friday at times) that meets and greets Monday(s), often before it’s (or they) happened.(Conversely, and because it is Monday, and if you are reading it, you may need a laugh, and also simply…
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The one where I extol the virtues of anthropology
Is anthropology useful? This question usually happens right before a person admits they know next to nothing about the science in question. (Which, I should say, leaves us with a far deeper and more concerning question, to whit – are we in fact unable to consider things we know little about as useful? Is that…
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The world is full of exciting options. Should you use them all?
Especially for entrepreneurs like myself, who are not yet a huge name everyone (or at least everyone in target industries) recognises at once, but also for everyone who already has recognition and is trying their best to remain relevant, tools for showing what we can do and who we are (which is gaining more importance…