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Stress & Discontent At Work - Part 2

May 16, 2013

 

Interview with Cy Wakeman, author of the book The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you work for a bad boss who’s holding you back in your career…

 

Cy Wakeman:
We know statistically 50% of your career you’ll have a bad boss and the sooner you realize you can succeed anyway the better off your careers going to be. 
 
Cy Wakeman

Stress & Discontent At Work

May 14, 2013

 

Interview with Cy Wakeman, author of the book The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Stress and discontent at work; if you’re feeling that ask yourself who’s to blame?

 

Cy Wakeman:
And I think that we’ve all gotten pretty used to being victims. And we tend to blame our circumstances and most people are both relieved and shocked to find out that we’re not at the mercy of our circumstances.
 
Cy Wakeman

The Importance Of Small Talk

May 6, 2013

 

Interview with Don Gabor, author of the book How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends: Revised And Updated

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Smalltalk it has a reputation of being a big waste of time.

 

Don Gabor:
But the exact opposite if really true because you never know who you’re going to meet on an airplane or walking down the street and I’ve met many interesting people and people who’ve become clients simply from just starting a conversation.
 
Don Gabor

Completing Projects You Start

May 2, 2013

 

Interview with Michelle LaBrosse, Founder of Cheetah Learning

 

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Mike Carruthers:
75% of all the projects you start you never finish, why? Mostly because of distractions.

 

Michelle LaBrosse:
And now like today with our smartphones there’s more and more things to get us distracted. And these distractions are like little addictions they give you a little dopamine rush.
 

 

 


Michelle LaBrosse

Is Your Job Killing You?

April 26, 2013

 

Interview with Steve Morris, author of the book Glorious Leadership: A Holistic Approach to Achieving Leadership Mastery and WorkLife Balance

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you let it, your job could be killing you.

 

Steve Morris:
This has been shown by the American Medical Association, by the way - that unhappiness at work is a cause for heart disease. And unhappiness at work - the principal determinate of that is your relationship with your direct superior.
 
Steve Morris

What Other People At Work Think Of You

April 15, 2013

 

Interview with Emily Bennington, author of the book Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever stopped to think about how other people at your work think about you? It turns out to be pretty important.

 

Emily Bennington:
When you ask employers what is missing in the employees that aren’t achieving their full potential, one of the things that they’ll tell you that those employees, in particular, are missing the self-awareness.
 
Emily Bennington

Rethinking Workplace Values & Virtues

April 4, 2013

 

Interview with Jake Breeden, author of the book Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In our quest for success in the workplace we embrace certain ideas that maybe need a 2nd look. An example is creativity.

 

Jake Breeden:
Creativity is a virtue in some cases. But in other cases creativity is just an excuse for narcissism.
 
Jake Breeden

Stealth Communication

February 18, 2013

 

Interview with Ronnie Moore, author of the book Why Did I Say That? Communicating to keep your credibility, your cool, and your cash!

www.rmoorecommunications.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever been the recipient of what’s called stealth communication? It happens a lot at work.

 

Ronnie Moore:
So the boss has 10 people on staff, 1 of them is always late the other 9 are always early.
 
Ronnie Moore

Why People Complain About Their Workplace - Part 2

January 22, 2013

 

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In organizations a common complaint is having to attend so many meetings. We should just do without them.

 

Ray Fisman:
We could do away with meetings is all useful information to travel up and down and across the organization could be conveyed by written reports and spread sheets. Though I would point out you’d be writing a lot more reports and putting together a lot more spread sheets if that were the case.
 
Ray Fisman

Why People Complain About Their Workplace

January 21, 2013

 

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You’ve probably worked in a job or been part of an organization that you thought was not run very well.

 

Ray Fisman:
Most people look at their lives and organizations and see nothing but dysfunction and they think about how much better things could be.
 
Ray Fisman


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