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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

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

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

Why So Many Bosses Are Lousy Managers

November 23, 2012

 

Interview with Terry Bacon, author of the book What People Want: A Manager's Guide to Building Relationships That Work

 

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Mike Carruthers:
A lot of managers are lousy at their job and the process of promoting managers is a big part of the problem.

 

Terry Bacon:
A lot of managers are promoted because they're very good technically at what they do - and they're so good technically, they're promoted into positions of management, often without having a real aptitude for people and usually without any real good training on how to manage people.
 
Terry R. Bacon

When Conversations Go Bad

November 1, 2012

 

Interview with Dr. Ben Benjamin, author of the book Conversation Transformation: Recognize and Overcome the 6 Most Destructive Communication Patterns

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Who taught you how to communicate?

 

Dr. Ben Benjamin:
The most important skill a person needs to have a good marriage, to have a good job is how to communicate. And nobody ever gets classes in communication because we always assume we can do it – and most people really can’t.
 
Dr. Ben Benjamin

Would You Like To Be More Admired? - Part 2

October 24, 2012

 

Interview with Mark C. Thompson, author of the book Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you want to be successful and admired by others is it more important to be competent or charismatic? Well research has asked that question and it turns out…

 

Mark C. Thompson:
Competence and your ability to do the work ended up being more important than how naturally communicative or extroverted that you are – it’ll always trump personality and charisma is your competence.
 
Mark C. Thompson

Would You Like To Be More Admired?

October 23, 2012

 

Interview with Mark C. Thompson, author of the book Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you get the recognition and respect you think you deserve?

 

Mark C. Thompson:
What we found is that most people wish they were valued more, respected and admired for what they do or at least what they care about most.
 
Mark C. Thompson


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