Irrational Expertise

An MBA in the Emotional Drivers of your Workplace and Career

Dr. Judith Sills is a media psychologist, keynoter, and workplace consultant, as well as author the Excess Baggage and five other popular psychology books. See full bio

November 19, 2009

My New New Boss

Shuffle Ball change. That's the current dance step in so many offices.

It's ironic in a way. With the job market frozen so that even the unhappiest amongst us are advised to take a deep breath and endure for the nonce, some companies are undergoing internal change at an unexpected pace. Read More

November 10, 2009

Part II: Good Girls on the Line

The last post on this subject described an emotional response pattern that SOME women have to one type of man: namely, the good girl's automatic, often barely conscious, knee jerk need to please a difficult Alpha male. (Not all Alphas are difficult, arrogant or temperamental. It just all the ones that you know.) Read More

November 6, 2009

On Crazy Shrinks

Our patients. Clients. Call them what you will. They suspect us all the time anyway. That we are secretly the crazy ones; they the stolid norm. They come for our help and often we heal, but still that resentful suspicion lingers. They may sit in the patient chair, but always slightly the doctor is devalued as much as he is idealized. Read More

November 3, 2009

Good Girls and Alpha Guys

"I cannot stand to disappoint him. It goes way beyond doing my best. It's doing my best with a claw in my chest." -- Third year associate, speaking of the law partner to whom she is assigned. Read More

October 29, 2009

Emotional Leadership

This will be a blog about emotion in the workplace. Basically, it will be an ongoing discussion of the wolf in the sheep's suit we all wear to work. Read More

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