Posts Tagged ‘relationships’

34 Tips for Your Younger Self

In January, we asked you what advice you’d give your younger self as part of our regular We Ask, You Answer feature.

There was plenty of great advice—and a lot of catharsis, it seemed—and we’ve collected some of the best tips for you here.

1. Don’t worry about the future.

2. Follow your passion, even if it does not pay very well. If you are good at what you do and love… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: advice, education, Money, relationships, retrospect, youth | 23 comments»

How to Keep Family Relationships Intact with Geni

There was a time when it was easy to keep up with your family – they lived down the road, on the block or nearby in the city.

That time passed decades ago, with technological advances in transport and communication, and now families can be strewn across the country, or even the world.

But those same advances in technology and communication that keep families apart can also relieve the relationship deterioration… » Continue

February 15 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: family, genealogy, relationships, social-network, web-app | 5 comments»

How to Create Connection in the Workplace: A Review of “Fired up or Burned Out” by Michael Lee Stallard

How do business leaders create a sense of connection and shared passion in their organizations? How can you make your employees (and by extension you r company) more productive and more innovative — instead of struggling to maintain the status quo?

These are the questions that Michael Lee Stallard sets out to answer in his book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and

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February 15 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, connection, corporation, leadership, Management, relationships | 12 comments»

Exploring Relationships with the Single Weirdo

One of the many interesting things about being a life-long, single male in his early forties is people’s reactions to that single-ness (yep, a word). Everyone has an opinion on it. Depending on the person’s thinking, it can place me anywhere on the scale from ‘complete social outcast’, to ‘coolest bloke on earth’ and ‘luckiest man alive’. And elicit responses ranging from pity and ridicule, to envy and admiration… » Continue

February 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: Lifestyle, marriage, relationships, single | 61 comments»

The 7 Energy Sinkholes (and How to Avoid Them)

Energy sinkholes are situations that repeatedly drain your energy and stress you out. There are plenty of good reasons to invest your energy, so don’t waste your attention on a sinkhole. Unfortunately, it is often hard to see sinkholes since they rarely cause a drain all at once. Instead they slowly leech away at your lifeforce until your stressed, depressed and apathetic.

The best way to get… » Continue

October 11 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: Communication, energy, gtd, procrastination, Productivity, relationships, tasks, time, to-do, work | 45 comments»

Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick

Breaking down human behavior into rules might seem like a gross simplification. But even with the complexities, it is easy to fall into the same mistakes. I’d argue that many heated fights, lost sales and broken hearts are caused by a few critical errors. If you make the wrong assumptions, you’ve lost before you begin.

By keeping in mind these rules, you can avoid repeating the same… » Continue

October 2 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: business, charisma, Communication, dating, negotiations, people-skills, relationships | 44 comments»

Talk to Strangers

My friend, Noah Kagan, passed on an article written on his site by Jonathan Hudson about a topic I’m not all that talented in conveying: how to strike up a conversation with someone you don’t yet know.

It’s not a bunch of bullets and tips and how-tos. Instead, Jonathan writes from his own perspective about how he relates to people. In his case, Jonathan doesn’t prefer canned opening lines… » Continue

April 11 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, conversation, relationships | no comments»

10 Things Your Boss Hates About You

Think you’ve got it bad at work? Your boss might have more to complain about than you. Where you may have one person to direct all your angst to, your boss has many.

For the benefit of a healthier work environment, here are some reasons why you might be the source of strife.
1. Lateness

2. Lack of initiative

“Don’t ask me if you should buy lunch for the client, if the client is… » Continue

April 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: boss, relationships, workplace | 7 comments»

Five ways to transform your partner

Psychology Today posts an interesting article about how to improve your relationship with your significant other. Therapist Terrence Real discusses the different expectations men and women have about a long term relationship and proposes five ways to “improve” your partner. “For men, the ingrained belief is some variation of: ‘I fight dragons all day, when I come home I get to relax.’ For women it’s commonly: ‘If I have… » Continue

February 15 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: health, lifesytle, relationships | no comments»

Putting Your Trust in . . . Trust

Trust is an essential component in almost all dealings between human beings, other than outright hostile ones like wars and terrorism. It is certainly vital for the proper running of any organization, as well as for almost all the components of trade and commerce. Lack of trust between trading partners undermines the proper functioning of business. Mistrust is a major cause of excessive (and unnecessary) workload on leaders, since the… » Continue

November 27 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business-ethics, civilized-work, collaboration, commitment, corporate-culture, empowerment, Hamburger-Management, honesty, innovation, integrity, leadership, Lifehack, Management, micro-management, motivation, office-politics, relationships, teamwork, trust, work, work-life, workstyle | 2 comments»

Competition Re-visited

The case of Floyd Landis, plus the earlier doping scandals bedeviling the Tour de France, ought to make us all think again about the true impact of competition. Sport (together with warfare) is one of the commonest sources of ideas about business, so when the world of sport seems to be in trouble, it’s worth asking what is going wrong, and whether it might reveal anything relevant to the business… » Continue

August 7 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, competition, high-fliers, leadership, managememt, Management, motivation, office-politics, organization, performance, Productivity, relationships, reputation, success, winners, winning, work, work-life | 1 comment»

Jimmy Olsen Lives On

A week or so ago, I wrote The Power of Jimmy Olsen, about the “support cast” in our lives, and how we must not judge everyone by the same scale. Jon from the Levite Chronicles ran with the article and created a follow-on post, “The Care and Feeding of Jimmy Olsen.”

My piece only identifies the Jimmy’s and the reasons they’re great. Jon’s piece tells you what to do… » Continue

July 18 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, jimmyolsen, Management, personaldevelopment, relationships, superman | no comments»