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Vulnerability is the key to likability at work (and on the farm)

August 26th, 2008
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This is the last thing I should be writing on my blog. Because it's now clear that the blog is a great dating tool. Propositions all the time. So I should not tell you this, but here it is: It turns out that I'm a lousy girlfriend.
Not the bad in bed type. Well, sort of. [...]

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What I've been doing while I've not been posting

Posted to: How to blog | Knowing yourself
August 25th, 2008
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I haven't posted for two weeks. This is the first time in ten years that I have gone two weeks without writing a column. Really. I have a track record for continuing to write when every other sane person would take a break: I wrote a column right after I delivered a baby, I wrote [...]

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Living up to your potential is BS

Posted to: Fulfillment | Productivity
August 8th, 2008
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The idea that we somehow have a certain amount of potential that we must live up to is a complete crock. People who say they are not living up to their potential do not understand what living means.
Life is very hard. We each probably have some fundamental goals, even if we don't think of them [...]

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Why you have more trouble with silence than with chatter

Posted to: Knowing yourself
August 5th, 2008
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I give a lot of speeches, mostly telling people how to manage Generation Y, and how to manage their careers so that they are not jealous of Generation Y. My charm, I think, is that I don't prepare a speech. I never know, exactly, what I'll say when I stand up. It works for me—no [...]

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