Work and Career - Co-workers
Work and Career - Co-workers
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June 21, 2010
Interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of the book Click: The Magic of Instant Connections
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Mike Carruthers:
You’ve undoubtedly had the experience of meeting someone for the first time personally or professionally and you hit it off, you click.
Ori Brafman:
It turns out that the relationships that ensue from those kinds of connections are categorically different – mainly they’re more passionate.
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Ori Brafman |
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April 13, 2010
Interview with Jessica Pryce-Jones author of Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
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Mike Carruthers:
More and more employers are spending time and effort on making sure their employees are happy.
Jessica Pryce-Jones:
The reason that organizations are interested in happiness at work is because people who are happiest at work are doing a day and a quarter extra per week in terms of effort. So you are getting sixty days a year out of your most happy employees.
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Jessica Pryce-Jones |
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April 12, 2010
Interview with Jessica Pryce-Jones author of Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
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Mike Carruthers:
Just how happy and content you are at work is determined by several factors.
Jessica Pryce-Jones:
It looks to be about 50% of your happiness comes with who you are. 10-15% comes with the context that you find yourself in – but 35-40% comes from how you manage that context.
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Jessica Pryce-Jones |
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December 25, 2009
Interview with Mike Cook, author of the book Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World
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Mike Carruthers:
You can't really get ahead in life or in your career without the help of other people, so how other people perceive you is very important.
Mike Cook:
And can you honestly say that when you encounter people at work, that when you're complete with an interaction with them that they're looking forward to the next time that they get to see you.
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Mike Cook |
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December 15, 2009
Interview with Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work: 79 Etiquette Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
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Mike Carruthers:
If your employer is having a Christmas party you really should plan on going.
Barbara Pachter:
It is important that you attend the party and that you mingle with people there. A holiday party is still a business event and your absence will be noticed.
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Barbara Pachter |
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Business etiquette expert Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work, says how you dress at a Christmas party is also very important.
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November 9, 2009
Interview with Rodd Wagner, co-author of the book Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life
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Mike Carruthers:
Partnerships - we all have them at work, at home and with friends.
Rodd Wagner:
Most people are not very deliberate about their partnerships. When you ask them whether they’ve had good partnerships or bad partnerships they will tend to say they’ve had a lot more bad partnerships than good ones.
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Rodd Wagner
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October 19, 2009
Interview with Len Merson, CEO of Chaos Over, Inc.
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Mike Carruthers:
Disorganization in the workplace comes at a very high cost.
Len Merson:
There are studies that have been done over the last 15 years in the area of information management, all these studies have been independent of each other, but they happened to ask one question in common. The question that was asked was, “How much time does an employee spend per day looking for information they can’t locate?”
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Len Merson |
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September 28, 2009
Interview with Mark Goulston author of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
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Mike Carruthers:
Listening may be one of the best and underutilized ways to really connect with someone.
Mark Goulston:
I think a key prerequisite though is you actually have to care about other people as opposed to just try to maneuver them to do a deal.
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Mark Goulston |
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September 3, 2009
Interview with Omar Kahn, author of Liberating Passion: How the World's Best Global Leaders Produce Winning Results
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Mike Carruthers:
Passion in the workplace - a lot is written about that subject as if it was a rare commodity and yet…
Omar Kahn:
When people are hired they're pretty passionate - it's part of what gets them hired. And then companies would say to me, "Give them a few months with us we'll suck the passion right out of them."
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Omar Kahn |
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