“If you ask men why they succeeded, men attribute that success to themselves; and women, they attribute it to other factors like working harder, help from others. Ask a woman why she did well on something, and she’ll say, ‘I got lucky. All of these great people helped me. I worked really hard.’ Ask a

In an open environment, with employees situated in cubicles rather than in offices, employees have the opportunity to learn a lot about their co-workers’ professional and personal lives. If you are faced with a colleague who always seems to know everything that’s going on in your life, you might want to be more discreet at

This is a guest post by Amy Beth Miller, business writer and editor. One morning when I was still a relatively new manager, Matt came to my desk and told me about a comic routine he had seen the night before. The comedian described how a child will constantly interrupt a parent who is on

After terminating someone, many managers clam up. They refuse to share information out of fear of legal or other consequences. Although discretion is important, shutting down communication can cause other employees to worry needlessly. They may speculate that you acted arbitrarily and may even conclude that their own jobs are in jeopardy. To strike the

Chances are you have a personal Facebook or Twitter account, and chances are your organization has one too. But are you personally engaging with your organization’s social media accounts? Or do you leave that to someone else? While it is a good idea to delegate social media responsibilities to select employees, don’t excuse yourself from

Before his untimely death, Heath Ledger put together an amazing performance as the Joker. He played a psychopath intent on creating mayhem as a part of his personal agenda in his warped sense of reality. We have developed a fascination with psychopathic behavior. Some of the most popular films and shows are focused on psychopathy:

The other day I received a hand-written note on a simple card from some one I met just briefly at a recent conference. Wow! I hadn’t seen one of those since my Grandmother wrote me a thank you note for my Christmas present to her last year. Here’s this person I’ve spent all of 15

If you had asked me five years ago what the number one issue most of my clients were struggling with, I would’ve told you that it was lack of clear, vivid and extremely well-communicated vision.  Today however, the number one challenge is helping leaders to be more courageous in their communication.  To me, there are

I think most people will agree that keeping your word is a good thing. I know that when someone tells me they are going to do something that will positively impact me in some way, I want them to follow through.Yet, the flip side of this value of integrity can take you into a tailspin.