Posts Tagged ‘relationships’

5 Topics To Address When Talking With Your Partner About Starting A Business

One of the most important steps (if not the most important one) you can take when starting a business is to talk with your partner/spouse before you embark on your adventure. It’s absolutely crucial to have your partner with you on the same page when you start a business. Without their support and “buy-in,” in the long run you’ll end up sacrificing your success, your relationship, or both. Save your… Continue reading

March 4 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, career, entrepreneur, freelance, job, love, marriage, Money, partner, passion, relationships, risk, work, work at home | 6 comments»

In Uncertain Times, Prepare Yourself for New Opportunities

We live in uncertain times. Global financial collapse, rapid relocation of industries, emerging markets, political unrest, and just the fast pace of change in the Information Era in general all mea that things you take for granted today might be completely different tomorrow. Now is certainly not a time for rigidity. The career you’re working in this year might not even exist in 2010. And vice versa – the field you… Continue reading

November 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, change, economy, finance, networking, relationships, self-knowledge, self-promotion | 10 comments»

Marriage… and Other Stuff I’m Meant to Do

Poor Delusional Me Being a single bloke in his forties draws all kinds of comments, suggestions, inferences and questions from a broad cross-section of people, with responses ranging from pity to surprise, through to outright jealousy. Apparently the most interesting thing about me (for some people) is my wife-less-ness (Craigism). Clearly there's something weird, dark and dysfunctional about me that needs to be explored and explained. Or... I could just be a… Continue reading

October 8 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: conformity, marriage, normality, relationships, rule-breaking, society | 28 comments»

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 reading

April 2 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: advice, education, Money, relationships, retrospect, youth | 27 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 reading

February 15 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: family, genealogy, relationships, social-network, web-app | 7 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

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 reading

February 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: Lifestyle, marriage, relationships, single | 64 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 reading

October 11 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: Communication, energy, gtd, procrastination, Productivity, relationships, tasks, time, to-do, work | 50 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 reading

October 2 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: business, charisma, Communication, dating, negotiations, people-skills, relationships | 63 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 reading

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 reading

April 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: boss, relationships, workplace | 9 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 reading

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 reading

November 27 2006 | By Guest | 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 | 3 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 reading

August 7 2006 | By Guest | 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 reading

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