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How Can I Be My Authentic Self in the Workplace?

April 26, 2020March 27, 2023

Live into yourself with your whole self, because the cost to not do so is too huge to pay

How Do We Measure Progress in Our Careers?

April 19, 2020February 24, 2023

Money is a shitty metric for work. Only you can find the right one. Armand Khoury on Unsplash “I wonder if you’d help me,” you wrote. “How do you measure …

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It’s what you do that defines you

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017

How often I think of thanking the people who have been helpful. But then, I don’t act on it. Sometimes it’s because I feel like that might make that person …

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GET YOUR IDEAS THROUGH

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017

A friend* went to a workshop that the OpEd project runs, whose objective was to teach how to claim and state their opinions so clearly, that they shape the opinions …

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Upright and Breathing

March 31, 2016April 1, 2016

Yes, I’m alive. Thanks, Andy, for checking in. No, I’ve not written on the blog for nine months.   This is not to say I’ve not written. I’ve written and …

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Am I Allowed to Log Off The Internet?

June 29, 2015July 13, 2015

When a Parisian friend learned I had rented a house in the south of France this summer, she was like “now, you’re getting the hang of this thing”. And then …

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How do “new people” get access to Power once denied?

May 20, 2015June 4, 2015

Power informs the fundamental conditions for prosperity. When you understand how Power works, you understand the world. It shapes society: dictating who participates, to what degree they can affect change, …

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How Can I Be A Speaker, Like You?

May 13, 2015May 14, 2015

How did you get that unbelievable keynote/speaking slot/invitation? What can I do to get on the TED stage? How can I be a speaker, like you? Those were 3 questions …

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Shhh … Don’t Tell My Boss

April 30, 2015April 30, 2015

Being a “slash-career” person, i.e. writer / speaker / researcher / professor, can mean your “boss” is a tyrant-like type who always has a new demand of you, and never …

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