The Biggest Loser is a reality show on NBC soon wrapping up its 10th season. The contestants on the show are morbidly obese, have often tried and failed to lose weight numerous times, and many have undergone gastric bypass surgery – and gained the weight back. The premise of the show is [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to work with introverts. Not to be one-sided, this post will provide some tips for introverts. After all, the world doesn’t have to cater to the needs of introverts. These tips are in the form of actions an introvert can take to work more [...]
Extraversion is one of the major personality traits. Our personality stays relatively stable throughout our lives. Personality traits exist on a spectrum, so we can be low, moderate, or high on the extraversion trait. If you are low in extraversion, it is referred to as being high in introversion.
Social media can be confusing and even threatening because of its newness and visibility. Employees have been fired over posting photos, expressing their opinions, and posting a status message on Facebook. Upon reading these tales, you’ll find that some of these stories are fair while others are unfortunate. You’ll [...]
Recently, CNNMoney and Wired ran a story about Steve Jobs and what it is like to work at Apple. Specifically, a key highlight of the article was about the internal drama that surrounded the failed MobileMe application that came out with the launch of the iPhone. The purpose of [...]
I woke up on Christmas morning to cold New Jersey rain. I had planned on going for a run. Not just any run, but my first run. I had planned to start my New Year’s resolution early, but I had not planned on this weather. Suddenly I wasn’t so sure. Tempted to stay inside the [...]
Over the past several years, there has been a rise in virtual working teams and a rise in fluid teams. A fluid team is one composed of individuals who work together to complete a project, but once finished, they disperse and go their separate ways to work on different projects, often with different people. This [...]
Setting goals is probably one of the easiest ways to get from where you are now to where you want to be in the future. There is no shortage of literature showing that those who set goals are more successful than those who don’t set goals. But not all goals are created equal. Here are [...]
Servant leadership is a leadership theory that focuses more on the followers than the leader him/herself. The concept of servant leadership comes from Robert K. Greenleaf in an essay that he published in 1970, where he wrote:
This past Saturday I ran my first trail race, the Hardcore Serious Trail Run 5k/10k/15k. This was an interesting race structure where the 5k started at 9am and the 10k started at 10am so the sign-up options were to race the 5k, race the 10k, or to race [...]
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