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11 Incredible Reasons Why Having Friends At Work Is Important (Infographic)
I can honestly say that I'm one of those people that have to be around people they like in order to work better. Working amongst people that I would genuinely love to be around makes my job a thousand times easier. I think there's a humongous benefit from having friends at work. It can alleviate some of the stress that comes from working a lot of hours and makes those high pressure situations easier to deal with.
Can Being Over-Competitive Hurt You As A Professional? | Jeff Fermin
Can Over-Competitiveness Hurt You As A Professional? Having the stoic, pragmatic,'never wanting to be defeated' type of attitude is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you're always busy, always looking for that edge, always wanting to be the best you that you can be. A curse because you'll want all the people around you to want to be the best, too — and a lot of people are fine with just being average.
Being Mindful In The Information Era
Practicing Mindfulness During The Era Of Impatience Today I was sitting among a hundred other people at a small courthouse. I was there for a minor traffic violation, so I, like everyone else, just wanted to get out of there and go on with my life. I entered the courtroom, and there was a big sign outside of the room that reads: “no cell phones” and we had another brief reminder from one of the officers to put our phones on silent.
Specialist Entrepreneurs ... The New Rock Stars? | Jeffrey Fermin
When we were younger, we aspired to be like the heroes of TV shows, films, and books. We thought that we would be able to encapsulate their essence by following their way of going about things and acting just like them. As we get older, we stop believing we can make it as actors, rock stars, athletes, or do cool shit, because we start settling for 'realistic' goals that seem more attainable. So, we start looking for a different kind of role model.
12 Personality Traits of a Great Boss
You have probably heard the old saying, people don’t quit their job, they quit their bosses .Poor leadership can lead to poor performance across the board. This is why it’s important to make sure that you have great bosses/managers that are leading the pack and making everyone around them better on a daily basis. Here are the 12 Outstanding Personality Traits Of A Great Boss: Understand the power of positive psychology, look at every situation as a learning opportunity.
Was Steve Jobs an HR Nightmare or Innovator?
History books and biographies serve the purpose of recognizing winners: the individuals or groups that come out on top of a rough journey. We admire them because they make us believe in ourselves; they give us an ideal to strive for. The one thing with historic figures is that we often forget about their flaws and manage to believe that they were great characters because of the image we’re left with. There could not be a better example of this than Steve Jobs.
11 Reasons Why Having Friends At Work Is Important
I can honestly say that I’m one of those people that have to be around people they like in order to work better. Working amongst people that I would genuinely love to be around makes my job a thousand times easier. I think there’s a humongous benefit from having friends at work. It can alleviate some of the stress that comes from working a lot of hours and makes those high pressure situations easier to deal with.
Psychology Of Colors In A Workplace
Picture this: you go to work every day and you have one cubicle, you have one kitchen area, and you have one bathroom area. All of them are grey. You stylize your cubicle with a pictures, maybe a couple of little decorations here and there, but you still can’t get out of the absolute blandness and “boringness” of your current office. Whether you want to believe it or not, there’s a reaction from your brain from the colors that you face within your workplace everyday.
14 Disturbing Employee Engagement Statistics
Last year, we had a viral post about some of the downfalls in employee engagement. Unfortunately, not much has changed and there are still some things around job engagement and satisfaction that need to be fixed. In the past year, not much has changed, but we have managed to do is reinvent employee engagement surveys in order to help provide high-level management with statistics to boost employee engagement and morale.
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