We all want to be popular and well-liked. It’s natural to try to make friends or notice how we fit into a group. But we don’t click with everyone, and many of us have a sense when someone isn’t our biggest fan. In some cases, we can avoid those individuals. But what if we need […]
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What would your boss say if you packed up your laptop and declared you were heading not just down the street to the coffee shop to work, but to a streetside cafe in Italy… for a year. It’s a new reality that some remote employees are seriously considering, and succeeding in, as our workplace culture
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An employee who had been working in corporate and internal communications at a healthcare company for several years was ready for a promotion, but there was little opportunity to advance. Then, the company posted a job in its regulatory division. The position was at the same level as her current role but with a slightly
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“The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.” — Research professor Brené Brown, Ph.D. Power dynamics are borne out of a role you’ve unknowingly been cast in, making a relationship sometimes feel like a Broadway show with no
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“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert Let’s begin with a simple fact: life is inherently messy. Despite our best efforts to organize, control, and perfect, life has a way of surprising us and tossing our neatly folded plans into disarray. I used to think that if I worked hard enough, if I
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Pets became a mainstay in home offices during the pandemic, offering a refreshing sense of levity during the business day. When the world switched to remote work, 23 million households in America added a pet to their family, and pets’ roles were elevated to the coworkers we never knew we needed. Dogs at work began
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Take your vision of the future, multiply it by a few light-years, and you have a glimpse into the possibilities in the mind and career of Ariel Ekblaw. She’s the founding director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and co-founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute, a nonprofit education and research center and space architecture research
Today’s post was written by the radiant Catherine Grace O’Connell. She’s a 60+ model who did not get in front of a camera until she was in her mid-50s. As a woman who did not learn how to use a computer until around that same age and went on to build an online business, I
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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ~Oscar Wilde “Choose me!” I heard the voice clearly as I sat across from my therapist one day in her office. It was my fourth visit, and we were working through this feeling I had, like I was crying on the inside but nothing was
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Did you know that cold calling has been around for 150 years? It started with the creation of a sales training manual written by John Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register (NCR) Company, in 1887. Originally written for in-person sales calls, the advent of the telephone made it possible for cold calls to take
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