In their new book, Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace, Robert M. Galford and Cary Greene examine the "Simple Sabotage…
This advice may seem trite and fairly obvious, but I also think it's almost always ignored, so it needs to be said as often as possible. And yet, at the…
Weeks ago, I was sitting in a meeting. There were several people sitting at the table with me. As someone near the front of the room began speaking, more than…
Back in July, my six year-old daughter, Clara, bought a Playmobil dollhouse. It cost $89.Knowing that Mommy and Daddy would not buy it for her, and knowing how far away…
Two years ago, I began thinking about producing a podcast of my own. The combination of my excessive love for podcast and my fundamental (and possibly narcissistic) belief that I…
If you've ever attended one of my author talks, you'll know that I encourage strange, difficult, inappropriate, and challenging questions during the Q&A portion of the evening.I even award a…
In my most recent appearance on Slate's The Gist, I discuss the importance of stakes in storytelling and some of the tricks that I use to build and maintain them…
PERSONAL HEALTH1. Don’t die.I didn't even come close to dying last month. 2. Lose 20 pounds.I gained two pounds in October, so now I'm only down ten for the year. Ten…
One of the unexpected joys of parenthood is discovering that your child does something that you have done in the past, without any prompting on your part. Recently, I've noticed that…
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