Don’t Care Too Much at Work

It may sound counter-intuitive for me to recommend that you shouldn’t care too much at work.  However, after reading this story, hopefully you can understand and appreciate why you should not care too much, if you want to accelerate your career success. On Monday, I had a morning phone meeting with one of the data team…  ...  read more

Dealing with Difficult Personalities – What Not to Do

How should we deal with difficult personalities?  I have been thinking about how to write about this topic for three weeks now.  I realized it’s hard, because there are so many potential dimensions and scenarios to this question: Who is this person that you consider “difficult” – a senior executive, boss, peer, colleague, customer, vendor,…  ...  read more

Dealing with Difficult Personalities – 5 Effective Tips

In my article, “Dealing with Difficult Personalities – What Not to Do,” I talked about 4 things not to do: Don’t react emotionally or defensively. Don’t try to change this person. Don’t complain to this person’s boss to try to resolve this. Don’t gossip about this situation with other co-workers. Continuing with my example with Anna, what…  ...  read more

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