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Truth Be Told: 13 Ways to Demonstrate Honesty
Follow Your Conscience
Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness. Follow Your Conscience by Frank Sonnenberg, is jam-packed with actionable advice on improving your relationships, strengthening your career, and finding your purpose in life. Follow Your Conscience answers questions such as: How do you build a solid reputation? How do you achieve better balance in life? What… [Read More]
8 Communication Barriers in Business
Companies must develop a working environment that is conducive to open, trusting, caring relationships between people—an environment that welcomes new ideas and encourages constructive feedback; one in which management actively serves as a catalyst for nurturing and then disseminating new ideas. One of the functions of management is to recognize communication barriers so that the organization… [Read More]
Call Me . . . Maybe
Would you use voicemail to fire someone, recite your marriage vows in an e-mail, or end a romantic relationship via text? –– Of course not. But unfortunately, these communication media are used inappropriately every day. The fact is, each form of communication — face-to-face conversations, telephone calls, social media, e-mails, and texting — has its… [Read More]
Creative Blocks: Is Management Helping or Hurting?
Many people have little understanding of the creative process. They try to issue orders to stimulate, put time limits on, or insist that the creative process conform to preconceived notions. The fact is, the better you are at identifying creative blocks the easier it is to remove them. Management’s responsibility then is to ensure that… [Read More]
Be Humble: Don’t Let Success Go to Your Head
Their stories are all too common: After years of hard work pursuing the American Dream, these self-motivated high achievers reach the pinnacle of success that’s so richly deserved. And — you guessed it; they let success go to their head. Whatever happened to being humble? These folks think they’re so special. They buy expensive “toys”… [Read More]
There’s More to Friendship Than Friending
When I was young, my friend let me borrow the red crayon from his new box. So I let him ride my bike. When we got older, my friend defended me in a snowball fight and sat with me at lunch so I wouldn’t have to eat alone. Years later, when we were in high… [Read More]
13 Ways to Destroy Creativity and Innovation
Do You Destroy Creativity and Innovation? 1. Creativity Killer ➤ Keeping people in the dark “It’s just not right. I can’t tell you why, but I just don’t like it.” “I know exactly what I want, but can’t explain it. When I see it, though, I’ll tell you.” 2. Creativity Killer ➤ Dictatorships “Here’s my idea and how to… [Read More]