We love arrogant sitcom characters. Every TV generation has them. There is Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory. Before Sheldon, there was Dwight on The Office, Niles on...
Love at work – is that allowed? This question launched a lengthy blog discussion a few years ago. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of talking with a...
What is it about comic book villains? They love evil. They love carnage. They love to make others suffer. Recently there has been a resurgence in movies based...
Earlier this week, a JetBlue flight was forced to make an abrupt landing because one of its engines caught on fire. The cabin filled with thick smoke. The...
Captain James T. Kirk likes to get his way. In the 2009 movie reboot of Star Trek, while a cadet at Starfleet Academy, Kirk has to take a...
We long for love, joy, and truth. And yet, we often feel the pressures of the workplace require us to hide and misrepresent the truth. In 1 Corinthians...
We face delays every day in the working world. The Internet goes down just as the web meeting is about to start. The copier breaks just as it’s...
Common courtesy is increasingly uncommon. In a 2011 survey, researchers Christine Porath and Christine Pearson found that 50% of workers experienced rudeness or incivility at least once per...
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