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Social Bookmarking for Your Small Business Blog

By Karen Leland on February 9, 2012 in The Perfect Blend

"If you write it, they will come." Well at least that's what all those small businesses that start a blog in the hope of driving hoards of potential customers to their site anticipate will happen. Read More

What Kind of Ancestral Leader Are You Most Like?

By Gregg Murray, Ph.D. on February 9, 2012 in Caveman Politics

What kind of ancestral leader are you most like? Evolutionary Leadership Theory identifies six leadership functions carried out in ancestral groups that serve as leadership prototypes today. Read More

Maps of the Mind and the World

By Maureen Seaberg on February 9, 2012 in Tasting the Universe

Blue cats, chartreuse kittens, and multi-hued Haitian taxis color synesthete Patricia Lynne Duffy's world. Read More

Are You Successful? Ask Yourself These Three Questions.

By Laurence Stybel, Ed.D., CMF on February 8, 2012 in Platform for Success

Are You Successful? Ask Yourself These Three Questions.

Murray Graziano works at The Golden Orchard in Toronto's famed St. Lawrence Market. One morning, I paid Murray and got three apples plus wisdom placed in my paper bag. Read More

Too Posh for Pregnancy?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in Genetic Crossroads

How many women hire surrogates because they are too busy to be pregnant or want to avoid stretch marks? Read More

Digital Dirt: Managing Your Online Identity

By Katharine Brooks, Ed.D. on February 8, 2012 in Career Transitions

It is no longer an option to monitor your online presence – it's imperative. Does your current online image reflect you at your best and convey the message you would want potential employers, customers, or clients to see? Read More

Quit: Do It Now

By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in The Science of Success

A lot of us suffer from not knowing when, or how, to quit. We take on too many projects and commitments, and end up turning in 10 mediocre jobs instead of one or two stellar performances. Read More

Six Degrees of Social Influence

By Douglas T. Kenrick on February 7, 2012 in Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life

Why would a world-renowned group of psychologists and marketing researchers team up with a man who was once the world’s most wanted computer hacker to write about one man’s social influence? Read More

Don't Treat Your Best Customers Like Morons and Marks

By Jonathan Fields on February 7, 2012 in Awake at the Wheel

I recently cancelled an online service. It was a monthly subscription model. A solid service. It's just that my needs had changed and I no longer needed it. I might have in the future, though, and figured I'd go back to it "if and when." Read More

Power Connects People

By Ilan Shrira on February 7, 2012 in The Narcissus in All of Us

When you think of people who are strongly driven to acquire power, what kinds of things do you imagine they are after? Is power about having: influence over others, money, status, glory, independence, self-confidence? Read More

Why Steve Jobs Is a Leadership Nightmare

By Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. on February 7, 2012 in Cutting-Edge Leadership

Steven Jobs was one of the most successful entrepreneurial leaders of the last half-century. He will likely be remembered as one of business's iconic leaders. Many of my students admire him. That is the problem. Read More

Is It Time for You to Finally Step Up?

By Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. on February 6, 2012 in Prescriptions for Life

Help build a better community, workplace, and world. Encourage tolerance and kindness. End bullying. Improve morale. Save your relationship. Is it time for you to step up? Dr. Susan Biali, M.D., shares concepts and tools from Stepping Up for Change, a new book from bestselling author John Izzo, Ph.D. Read More

Don't Look for Pity When Looking for Work

By Gina Barreca, Ph.D. on February 6, 2012 in Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Presenting one's self as a victim, or as accustomed to tragedy, or even as filled with weltschmerz (because who wouldn't be?) is no way to land a job. Sure, you had a lousy childhood and now have insomnia, issues with food, emotional stability, and anxiety. What you would really like to do is write, paint, or act. Yes, you are pretty much like everybody else. Read More

Bosses We Love, Wish Were Better, or Outright Despise

By Karol Wasylyshyn, Psy.D. on February 6, 2012 in Behind the Executive Door

Think about the worst boss you ever had. Or the best one. Or those who fell somewhere in between just OK and aimless. And moving from their report cards to yours, how good were you at finding productive ways of working with—or at least adjusting to—these bosses?  Read More

5 Reflections for Women Who Do Too Much

By Sherrie Bourg Carter, Psy.D. on February 5, 2012 in High Octane Women

Five reflections from Anne Wilson Schaef, addressing everything from meaningful dialogue to the profoundness of silence, for those who do too much. Read More

Help a Self-Centered, Bad Boss Change His Tune

By Lynn Taylor on February 5, 2012 in Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant

If you have a bad boss who acts as if the universe was created solely for his own gratification, you may have to deploy some managing up techniques. And the sooner the better. Read More

Find Your Sweet Spot–and Stay There

By Peter Bregman on February 4, 2012 in How We Work

There’s a simple way to assess an opportunity. Next time you’re given an “offer you can’t refuse,” ask yourself if it will place you squarely in your sweet spot. Read More

Longing for Change? How to Turn Nothing Into Something

By Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. on February 4, 2012 in Prescriptions for Life

The experiences or achievements you long for the most can seem so overwhelming (and so far away) that you never even start. Life coach and self-development expert Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. shares tips from the great Jim Rohn, as well as her own strategies, for turning what seems like nothing into that great big something. Read More

Ten Ways to Wow Your Audience

By Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. on February 4, 2012 in Fulfillment at Any Age

From an informal toast to a high-stakes job talk, public speaking is part of our daily lives. Even if you hate giving speeches of any kind, you’ll find that these simple pointers will ease your mind and please your audience. Read More

Believing Our Own Lies

By Michael Michalko on February 3, 2012 in Creative Thinkering

Why cognitive dissonance between what we believe and what we say and do causes us to change our belief rather than our behavior. Read More

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