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Ding Dong-the Wicked Salary Question is Down for the Count
When coaching students and professionals in negotiating salaries, I typically advise deflecting the salary history question. However, this is especially difficult on an online application. Online applications leave little or no room for “I would like to know more...
Talking Issues of the Day in a Civilized Way – Let the Slip Be With You
Have you ever been having a terrific conversation with a client or colleague when you let your guard down and an awkward comment slips out? Perhaps your slip was your honest and strong feelings about any number of issues such as your position on immigration, religion...
Facing Up to the Downside of Tech
I was glad to learn that early tech investors and the engineers who wrote the code have initiated The Center for Humane Technology to curb tech addiction and realign technology with humanity’s best interests. These social entrepreneurs are having second thoughts about...
With All, Do Respect
Do you remember what respects sounds and looks like? Appropriate, respectful, civil discourse seems to have lost its compass in democratic society. I was thrilled to read about a new book, Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life,...
Showing TO-GET-TO the Love
I attribute much of my career success by creatively solving significant problems, which garnered the attention of senior executives. Organizations have many problems waiting to be solved. The way to stand out and get noticed is to be an excellent problem solver,...
Is Social Media Dope?
“I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” The underlying physiology of this idea is that we are a society addicted to dopamine. Ironically, this was not said by me or a world renowned psychiatrist. It was said in an...