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Psychology At Work
Boost your talent development and organizational performance with a better understanding of human behavior and psychology.
Yesterday, I was talking to a bright young man from California on the phone. Let’s call him Dave.
Dave has a law degree from a fine California university. He is outgoing and personable, and wants to use his law degree as a springboard to an HR career. He has no work experience in HR, but [...]
Have I been deceiving you, dear reader? All the years, all the columns, pounding the same message: happiness at work comes from a variety of factors, not just money or perks. In fact, sometimes income is the worst predictor imaginable for life satisfaction – otherwise, the rehab centers wouldn’t be full of Hollywood [...]
Tiger copped a plea. Given the opportunity to conduct a gentlemanly withdrawal from the Masters after a serious rules violation – and do much to rehabilitate his battered image as club-tossing, F-bomb dropping philanderer – he hid behind a technicality: “(they) say I can keep playing, so here I am.”
By now, you probably know [...]
The unhappiest job in America, Forbes magazine reports, comes with a six-figure salary, cushy digs, an office assistant on call, expense account travel and a free BlackBerry. Yes, you guessed it, being an associate attorney in a big law firm is the unhappiest job in America. Bartleby the Scrivener, where are you?
The [...]
Marissa Mayer, whom I praised in Psychology at Work when she was appointed CEO of Yahoo, pulled a fast one on work-life balance types last week when she ended telecommuting at Yahoo. The blogosphere has lit up, with sentiment decidedly anti-Marissa. Of course, who writes blogs? People who sit in remote locations, electronically multitasking [...]
The Death Lizards are back — those soul-sucking 6-Sigmatized cyborgs from the Consultocracy who skip around corporate America turning decent, if middling, workplaces into something out of a hungover Dante dream.
Ron Johnson was named CEO of venerable JCPenney in 2011 with orders to revitalize the aging middlebrow retailer. Fair enough, it could use a [...]
Everybody wants to be happy. Books on happiness sell. CEOs want happy workers (or so they say). Consultants peddle happiness. Scientists research happiness. Academic papers on happiness get published. Governments are starting to use happiness assumptions in policy decisions. Happiness abounds. At least talk about it does.
The problem is that nobody agrees on what [...]
There is a great line from Clint Eastwood in the 1973 movie “Magnum Force”: “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
Eastwood played San Francisco detective Harry Callahan in the movie, brutal but honest, and suffice it to say the man who didn’t know his limitations – a corrupt police official – got blown away [...]
According to a recent article in Bloomberg’s Businessweek, Dish Network is a mean place. Really, really mean. And I’m not talking about how long they keep you on hold at customer “service.” They are mean to their employees, according to Bloomberg’s survey of corporate message boards.
They are also highly successful. According to [...]
It is that time of year to make a list of resolutions. Rather than offering the usual – a handful of tepid ideas to tame bad habits, doomed to be discarded by the Super Bowl (be early for meetings, keep my desk uncluttered, work out before breakfast) – I will focus on what the science [...]
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