Productivity

You can blow-past the elite. Just don’t lose yourself on the way up. Keep doing what you’re doing. Maintain that same level of discipline and productivity. Keep producing. Keep creating. Stick with your process. It’s killing it. Read More

It is too easy to be duped by charlatans in your office. They may look like experts, they may talk like experts, but when you take a deeper look, you realize that there is nothing of substance going on there. Read More

I didn’t lie or manipulate. Everything I said was true and I only promised what I was willing to deliver on if I was hired. I simply presented the parts of myself that the interviewer would be most likely to resonate with. Read More

A huge part of why looking for a job can be such as struggle is the fact that, sometimes you don’t even know WHAT you should be looking for! … Read More

With more than two years of experience with the 52-week parental leave, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s chief human resources officer has said the policy change was a wise move. Read More

Goals are often used as benchmarks of progress. If you meet ’em, you might earn a raise, a title change or bargaining power to ask for more vacation or flexibility. If you don’t — it’s time to work on improving your performance. Read More

Are you older than 10? It’s too late for you to be perfectly fluent in a foreign language. Before you attempt to learn a new language as an adult, recognize the futility of your task. Read More

It can be difficult to work with a lazy employee, but new data shows just how much time managers have to spend cleaning up their messes. Research from global staffing firm Robert Half shows that managers spend more than 10 hours “coaching underperforming employees” during the workweek. Read More

If you have ever felt bad about coming home after work and collapsing on your couch to watch hours of reality TV, don’t. Simply look to New York Times best-selling author Jessica Knoll whose second novel, The Favorite Sister, is centered around the intriguing lives of reality TV stars. Knoll, who is a huge fan of The Real Housewives franchise and often binges on seasons, realized there were so many rich, story templates sitting right in front of her eyes that writing about this subject for her follow up book was a bit of a no brainer. And there is no doubt that this book will do as well as her first, The Luckiest Girl Alive, which sold over 450,000 copes and spent four months on the Times’ best-seller list. Oh and Reese Witherspoon bought the rights for the film. Read More