You Can’t Fake Nice

You Can’t Fake Nice

An employee in a meeting I was facilitating felt comfortable telling her colleagues “I am nice at home, but I don’t have time to be nice at work.” “What?!” I thought.   As much as we sometimes think we have split personalities – that we are funny with friends, but...
Policies Will Never Hide True Philosophies

Policies Will Never Hide True Philosophies

I have respected my colleague Joe Mull ever since I met him. I follow his blog and this weekend he alerted his readers to this article from Inc. magazine. It discusses an executive’s email that garnered a wider than expected distribution, and the resulting fallout...
One Day at a Time

One Day at a Time

After graduating from college, I had no interest in going back to school, yet I knew most of the careers I was interested in required more education. One day Johns Hopkins University sent me an advertisement for a class taught by a famous author, and it looked...