Sat.Apr 28, 2012 - Fri.May 04, 2012

On The Job

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Asking the Right Question Could Be a Career-Booster

On The Job

I was recently with family who had several young children. It was fascinating to watch how curious they were about everything. It seems every sentence started with "why" or "how." Even though it drove their parents a bit nutty, I really wish we could hang on to more of our curiosity and a need to learn and understand. Here's a story I did for Gannett/USAToday on why you may want to tap into that inner 5-year-old at work.

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How To Deal With Negativity at Work

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Sometimes there is nothing more irritating than those trite phrases like “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” When you’re having a tough time in life, your first inclination may be to tell those full of such homespun logic to go suck a lemon. Those people don’t have to deal with an ogre boss or a long commute, you think, so they don’t know that it’s difficult to just be so darn positive all the time.

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