On The Job

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Read at least one career-focused book. Try to read a book that will make you think more deeply about a subject, whether it's how to develop your emotional intelligence or how to give a better PowerPoint. Ask for recommendations from your network.

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Cubicle PowerPoint Networking Stress 157

On The Job

MARCH 8, 2021

In his book, Grant provides examples of people finding success because they surrounded themselves not with "yes" -- but with "no." This creates of a much more tranquil online experience as it means that you're only interacting with people who you consider "nice" or who agree with you.

Social Media 152

Social Media Networking Management UPS 152

On The Job

JULY 3, 2019

This isn't a term that I was familiar with until I found it in Pamela McLean's new book, "Self as Coach, Self as Leader: Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in Others." Conscious complaining.

Forms 100

Forms 100

On The Job

MARCH 1, 2021

Are you finding ways to challenge your thinking with new podcasts or books? For many of us, just getting through the last year has been a great achievement. But now it's time to take it up a notch. Are you taking time to brainstorm creative ideas? Are you proposing new ideas to your boss or your team -- or to a job interviewer?

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Mentoring Goals Networking Training 246

On The Job

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In a new book, "Emotional Intelligence (You Can Really Use)" author Kerry Goyette explores several issues, including how trying to survive office politics "tempts us to defensively guard our reputation at all costs." When you go into avoidance mode, what will you do to counteract it?

Google 106

Google Stress Promotion UPS 106

On The Job

APRIL 15, 2019

Carnegie wrote this book in 1936, and I believe it really stands the test of time. I've given this book to many high school or college graduates.) That's why I want to re-visit some great advice by Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

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Promotion Learning 146

On The Job

AUGUST 31, 2020

Recently I was reading about Don Moore's new book, "Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely." In that interview, Moore makes solid points about how it's great to be confident -- but being overconfident is asking for trouble.

Confidence 145

Confidence Interviewing Training UPS 145

On The Job

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Perez-Breva shares such insight in his new book, “ Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up and Learning to be Productively Wrong.” He wrote the book after failing to find materials for his students (read more here )

Learning 114

Learning UPS 114

On The Job

DECEMBER 14, 2020

When was the last time you read a book that really challenged you? Your network is critical in growing your career, and people are longing for contact now more than ever. By reaching out, you're helping to seal a relationship that will be beneficial now and in the future. Your initiative.

Goals 145

Goals Resume Networking Phones 145

On The Job

APRIL 17, 2017

Anthony shares this story in his new book, “ Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future, ” which he wrote with Clark Gilbert and Mark W. By 2012, Xerox was hitting $21 billion in revenue. Anthony says Xerox is an important example of what companies can do to thrive when their industry is being disrupted.

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2012 Environment UPS 134

On The Job

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Do you ever say to your boss, "Hey, we're starting a virtual book club and we'd love for you to join us"? Do you ever ask the boss about his weekend? About how he's coping with working from home or trying to juggle kids and a career? Do you ever offer a genuine compliment or "thank you?" to the boss?

Stress 137

Stress Email Management 137

On The Job

MARCH 11, 2019

Gretchen Rubin, who I have interviewed many times about happiness in the workplace, has a new book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm." Unless you're consulting a book every day, don't leave it on your desk. In it, she writes how an orderly, peaceful environment will lead to inner peace and happiness. Need to write a tough email?

Fax 100

Fax Environment Filing Interviewing 100

On The Job

JULY 1, 2019

This is some of the advice in Dianna Booher's new book, "Faster, Fewer, Better Emails." "Far too many poor decisions rest on knee-jerk responses. Don't let fast emails become the enemy of good decisions." Booher addresses how some emails are too long -- and how some are too short.

Email 106

Email 106

On The Job

APRIL 2, 2018

This means that you can't waste your words talking about how you have six cats and four dogs and you love comic books and you recently returned from a vacation and blah, blah, blah. Your 75 words need to focus on your professional abilities (although you don't want to sound like you're reading your resume after not sleeping for four days).

Interviewing 140

Interviewing Collaborate Resume Skills 140

On The Job

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Ken Blanchard’s “One Minute Manager” has sold more than 13 million copies and been translated into 37 languages, but the author of more than 30 other bestselling books believes there’s a new message that organizations need to get if they want to survive in today’s competitive environment: learn to collaborate.

Collaborate 100

Collaborate Environment Stress Promotion 100

On The Job

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Tom Rath is a bestselling author of books such as “StrengthsFinder 2.0” with more than 5 million books sold. Now serving as a senior scientist and advisor to Gallup, Rath has written another book based on his own health practices, the science behind it and how others can benefit from it. “

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Health Medical Promotion 100

On The Job

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In a new book “When: The Art and Science of Perfect Timing,” author Stuart Albert uses decades of research to explain that having the right timing is really about skill. My book is filled with stories of individuals and organizations who took action at the wrong time , and suffered as a result – and why those mistakes didn’t have to happen.

Environment 100

Environment Skills Interviewing Promotion 100

On The Job

JULY 11, 2018

Whether it's music, movies, television or books, people often have "favorites." "Are there any good restaurants I should try this weekend?" Ask colleagues to lunch or join them in the break room. Talk about pop culture. You can say something like, "I see you're reading the latest Stephen King. Is this one you would recommend?"

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Cubicle Restaurants Stress Skills 169

On The Job

APRIL 3, 2017

In his new book, “ Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies ,” Zak explains that he’s sometimes been called a “vampire economist” because he takes blood from volunteers in order to measure neurochemical changes during decisions. If you want innovation, then you need to let people make mistakes,” he says.

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Environment Training 146

On The Job

JANUARY 18, 2016

A new book looks at how to find the right gear at the right time in order to thrive. If you’re not able to self-regulate – to shift gears when necessary – then you may find yourself burned out and unproductive. Next time you don’t want to be interrupted while working , try posting a “5” on your office door or cubicle.

Cubicle 100

Cubicle Agenda Learning 100

On The Job

APRIL 13, 2020

For example, there are a lot of books and articles about how to manage during a crisis and how to be a better leader. Maybe you check on a neighbor regularly and re-learn algebra so you can help your kid with math assignments. But it also means that we're all leaders now -- and that especially includes on the job. But you know what?

Stress 145

Stress Phones Email Management 145

On The Job

MAY 3, 2017

In his book, “Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets,” Peterson and co-authors Al Ramadan, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin Maney explain that while being the first to invent something can be important, “it doesn’t mean squat if you don’t define and develop a category.”

2008 140

2008 UPS 140

On The Job

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A new book by John Baldoni asks this question, and it''s worth considering if you''re a leader. In the book, "Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership, " Baldoni profiles a number of leaders from business, politics, sports and the arts. Have you got moxie?

Goals 100

Goals UPS 100

On The Job

APRIL 16, 2015

A new book, “Fail Better,” by Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn aims to show organizations and leaders how to create the conditions, culture and habits to “systemically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works.” The book points out that you don’t want to over plan and set things in stone at this stage.

Skills 100

Skills Learning Management 100

On The Job

MAY 11, 2015

In a new book, " Triggers ," author and leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith says that these "excuses" you make to yourself are really much more. In his book, Goldsmith offers some questions you can ask yourself every day to follow through on your intentions and take action instead of giving up and falling back on your past behaviors.

Assertiveness 100

Assertiveness Goals UPS 100

On The Job

APRIL 16, 2018

Andrea Bonior, a licensed psychologist, offers some potential friendship pitfalls and how to deal with them in her book, "Friendship Fix." When that happens, it's often a slippery slope because having a disagreement with a friend at work can cause you professional problems, as well. Among her tips: 1.

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Phones UPS 157

On The Job

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When I wrote my second book, that's when I finally got it. She made me jump through a lot of hoops: who could help me promote my book, what was my standing in my field, why would anyone listen to me, etc. Then I saw someone with a lot less knowledge -- and loads of bad advice -- become popular with career advice sites.

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Promotion Networking Training Goals 106

On The Job

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Dr. Seuss’s first book, “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” was turned down by 27 publishing houses and was such a flop he thought about burning it. Psychologists Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz teach a popular Stanford University course called “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” and will release a book of the same name in December.

UPS 100

UPS 100

On The Job

AUGUST 29, 2013

Twelve years after beginning a book about finding your life''s inspiration and doing something you love, she decided to self-publish. Then a senior executive at a major publishing house picked up the book because she, too, was going through a major career transition and trying to find her inspired work.

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AT&T Learning UPS 100

On The Job

OCTOBER 15, 2018

On the other hand, management guru Tom Peters says in his new book that management isn't complicated -- it just takes things like consistency and good communication. Meanwhile, a bigger boss or a board of directors is breathing down your neck, prepared to can you if you screw up."

Management 100

Management Learning UPS 100

On The Job

JANUARY 6, 2015

The book later sat on top of the New York Times’ bestseller list for 47 weeks and was the bestselling novel of 1991. But to this day Grisham will often throw away many efforts when penning another book. When my wife or my agent mark my stuff up, I want to punch them in the nose.

Travel 100

Travel Learning Management UPS 100

On The Job

DECEMBER 9, 2014

But a new book contends that it’s time other companies woke up to the reality that if they want to excel in the future – with their employees, with their customers and in running their operations – then they need to also embrace the idea of using technology to transform their business.

Social Media 100

Social Media Google Skills UPS 100

On The Job

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So using a 1950s etiquette book called “Betty Cornell’s Teen-Age Popularity Guide,” Van Wagenen began to follow advice such as being yourself, not putting on “airs” and treating everyone with the same kindness. The advice not only helped the teen become more popular, but the chronicling of her efforts garnered her a $300,000 book deal.

Etiquette 100

Etiquette Holidays Promotion Email 100

On The Job

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

In a new book based on seven years of research, Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao look at how successful leaders and companies worked to spread a culture of specific beliefs, behaviors and practices.

UPS 100

UPS Mentoring Yahoo Facebook 100

On The Job

OCTOBER 16, 2017

DeGraff promotes the idea that it’s critical to stir the workplace pot, as evidenced from the title of his new book, “ The Innovation code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict.” At the same time, he stresses that he doesn’t want chaos to be never-ending.

Stress 100

Stress Promotion 100

On The Job

AUGUST 26, 2015

The comparison is made in a new book, “ The Big Shift in IT Leadership ,” by author Hunter Muller, who contends that many CIOs remain focused inward, only concerned with technology. In Muller’s book, he makes several suggestions for those CIOs who are ready to make the ‘big shift” to key leadership within an organization.

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Collaborate Health Learning 100

On The Job

MAY 5, 2015

“The real story of motivation is that people are learners who long to grow, enjoy their work, be productive, make positive contributions, and build lasting relationships,” she writes in the book. In the book, she shares the technique and real-life “outlook conversations.”

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Stress Learning Skills Management 100