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How do You Deal with a Backstabbing Coworker?

Tips from Jane Chin If your workplace is full of backstabbing coworkers, it means that backstabbing works at this company. You are in a toxic company. Polish your interview skills, update your resume, and get the heck out of there! If a backstabber comes to you with gossip about a coworker, give no input and [...]

That I Am

Video of the contest speech… this live performance differs from the transcript in that I had improvised and made reference to the contestants’ who went before me. Have you ever wondered why you believe what you believe about who you are? Do you know how easily you may form beliefs that can direct years – [...]

A Danger of “Experience”

A popular improvisational (improv) comedy exercise is called the “Cliff Hanger”: After every few lines in a scene, one of the (usually a pair of) performers would incorporate audience suggestions into their scene. Audience members may provide suggestions on pieces of paper that were folded up for the performers to open and use as periodic [...]

Doing Well Doing Good Doing Right

Steve Woodruff asks us why our company is in business and names 3 drivers that shape a business, and subsequently, our brand. These drivers are: Doing Well Doing Good Doing Right Many professionals are becoming entrepreneurs, either part-time or full time, and many more of us are “serial” entrepreneurs, engaging our various talents into business [...]