Three Reasons Why You Can’t Handle the Politics
There are many reasons why you may well struggle to handle the politics, though these three are hard to beat.
Top of my list, your attitude to workplace politics.
If you hate it you will shy away from it and fail to learn how to do it properly. Read More
What is their Hidden Agenda?
These days – it seems – there is always a hidden agenda.
While the ethics of influence advocate presenting balanced influence attempts to aid decision-making, the practice of influence seems to ignore the eighth principle of persuasion.
Thus, whenever you are inclined to be influenced by someone, pause and check what they may be hiding from you. Read More
How to Get More Sponsorship for Your Reputation
Let the Good Times Roll
Weighed down by current events? Depressed by pandemics? Angry at people who break/obey the rules?
You choose to be that way.
And, you can easily choose to change this.
Times may be tough, you may have lost your job, or you may be overwhelmed with the crisis.
But, that doesn’t mean you need to allow that to depress your spirit. Read More
Expectation vs. Contribution
What is work?
“An activity I get paid to do.”
“Something I do that adds value.”
Two worldviews that invoke wildly different experiences of life. Read More
Passed Over for Promotion?
If you’ve been passed over for promotion, I can think of three good reasons why.
Firstly, you have not proved you are good enough.
Even if you are good enough, you still have to prove it.
Second possible cause, someone else proves themselves to be better. Read More
Job for Life
If you have a job for life, you’d better make sure it’s your passion, lest it become your poison.
A job for life is more of a life sentence.
Sure, it provides security, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Yes, nice steady income, low risk, paying the bills.
Mediocre and boring.
Aren’t you worth more than this? Read More
Stop thinking about what’s possible!
Realists always proclaim you have to consider feasibility and look logically at things before you get too carried away.
Can you name a single realist that has ever achieved anything remarkable?
Yet if you are rash and care not for realism, you’re likely end face down in the dirt. Read More
Jerking Your Chain
Who is having a laugh at you right now?
They say something, do something, that makes you mad.
Do they do it on purpose? Surely not, they are just ignorant.
Either way, you have a problem. Read More
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