“By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.” Don’t like how a family member cooked the turkey? Not a fan of a friend’s new hair style? While it might be tempting to let everyone know how we feel, what is that really going to achieve? The turkey can’t be re-made, and…
While you may not have full-blown Cell Phone Addiction, if you’re like most smartphone users you check your phone at least 58 times per day (according to data from RescueTime), and receive 46 push notifications (according to Business of Apps – although that number seems low to me). While it’s great to be able to…
Great leadership isn’t a given. Leadership is often learned by making mistakes, working your way up the ranks, and even more so, by observing leaders around you that excel and even the ones who do not. You can be a leader regardless of the position you hold. Whether you aspire to be a manager, a…
Dale Carnegie believed in the power of admitting one’s mistakes – believed so much, in fact, that this makes up his twelfth human relations principle: If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Thirty-two years after the release of Carnegie’s seminal work, How To Win Friends and Influence People, this principle was put to…