David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
How are you doing? If you’re like a lot of people, your response to that question is probably some form of faux-exasperated “busy.” “How are you doing?” is just a rhetorical greeting—a form of “hello.” […]
By now, you’ve probably heard about deliberate practice and the famed “10,000 Hour Rule.” If not, it’s an idea developed by K. Anders Ericsson and popularized by mega-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell; the idea is that […]
I’ve always appreciated this wisdom from Randy Pausch, of Last Lecture fame: “Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.” It encapsulates the value of learning from our mistakes and summarizes […]
Maybe you don’t. Hopefully, you don’t. I was raised by parents in a generation where discussions of politics or money were taboo to all but very close friends. (Of course, I’ve abandoned that part about […]
Overall, we’re pretty terrible at hiring. Not you per se, but collectively, in the “business” world, we’re pretty bad at finding and welcoming new people. Despite mountains of evidence of their ineffectiveness, most companies still […]
There’s an old saying that, when it comes to deciding what to wear at the office, you should “dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” I’ve always found this maxim a […]