“You made me a better person.”
It was a sweet moment with a client, offered up at the culmination of our coaching relationship. A man of few words was expressing a sense of peace with the leader — and person — he had become. Read More
Category Archives: Management
The ability to read others will greatly affect how you deal with them. When you understand how another person is feeling, you can adapt your message and communication style to make sure it is received in the best way possible.
But what should you be listening for? And what other signs can tip you off to what someone is thinking or feeling? Read More
Most people learn time management the hard way: by trial and error.
Étienne Garbugli, a Montreal-based product and marketing consultant and the author of “Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want,” distilled the lessons he wishes he’d known when he was 20.
He created the following presentation, posted to SlideShare, which we’ve shared here with his permission. Read More
Tyler Bosmeny is the co-founder and CEO of Clever, which is a fast growing company in the education space. He recently gave a talk at Sam Altman’s How to Start a Startup class at Stanford University describing how startups can get their first $1 million in sales. Read More
After his second year of graduate school at Princeton, Richard Feynman faced his oral examinations.
Feynman was not yet the famous physicist he would soon become (as his biographer James Gleick put it, “His Feynman aura…was still strictly local”), so he took his preparation seriously. Read More
Healthcare and tech are among the fastest-growing sectors of the US economy, and several well-paying jobs in those industries are primed to expand dramatically in the next decade.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its biennialprojections for job growth across hundreds of occupations between 2014 and 2024. Read More
Warren Buffett has been auctioning off a “power lunch” since 2000 at his charity event forGLIDE Foundation, an organization dedicated to reducing poverty and marginalization.
The highest bidder gets to bring up to seven people to dine with the steak-loving business magnate at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in Manhattan. Read More
When people first find out that Peter Buffett’s father is Warren Buffett — investing legend and the third richest man in the world — they’re shocked.
They’ll often say, “But you’re so normal!” Peter tells Stephen Dubner on a 2011 Freakonomics podcast. Read More
Within seconds of meeting you, people are already making judgments about your personality.
Those assessments can influence whether they want to hire you, date you, or be your friend. Read More
If you want to build a great business, you have to be very deliberate about whom you let into it. Read More
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