The best career advice I ever received? “Stop moaning, and do something about it!” Though it’s served me well, at the time I remember thinking, “that’s a bit harsh!” I'd just finished uni
When you jump in to "fix" things, how helpful is it really?
Self-promotion is a great tool for building your career, but it can also be damaging if you use it recklessly. So how can you self-promote…
It’s lunchtime. You’re sending a few messages and catching up on that great article you were reading. Suddenly, uh oh, your colleague sits down next to…
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” – Brian Herbert, U.S.
If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself when you were first starting out at work? Few of us forget…
The Good Wolf or the Bad Wolf? There’s an age-old Native American story about the battle between the bad wolf and the good wolf inside…
As some of you may know, we have discussion forums in the Mind Tools Club. A while ago, I started a conversation about mental health.
“You know what, Simon? I think they should fire you for what you’ve done.” As conversational gambits go, it was a…
Strange but true: I had both the best and the worst managers of my career – so far – at the same company. Not…
Toni Morrison is a favorite author of mine, who recently brought to my mind one of life’s fundamental questions: “Does the work that…
If there is one thing that we all share in this life, it is recurring moments of drudgery. As universal as drudgery is,…
