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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...
In Dante’s poem Inferno, a sign was posted on the gates of Hell that read: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! Today many would suggest that the...
Have you ever felt that your best wasn’t good enough? Maybe it was something a boss or coworker said or did not say about your performance. Last week...
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...
Work in any organization long enough, and you might see a familiar scene: the workaround. Someone in the organization wants their way, so they play office politics to...
The way we’re working isn’t working….you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find...
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...
A lot of rich, thoughtful books on faith, work, and economics have been published this year. Here’s five you’ll want to add to your summer reading list. Visions...
Harris Wittle is a writer for the show Parks and Recreation. In 2010, he created a Twitter handle called @Humblebrag that retweets subtly-worded boasts people post on Twitter....
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