Sitemap - 2024 - Curiosity > Certainty

#197 - Exploring my human iceberg

#196 - Choice and obligation

#195 - Designing a dream balcony and a fulfilling career: how they’re surprisingly similar

#194 - How come standing your ground feels like just standing to a few and impossible to most?

#193 - A Ph.D. is just a sign of docility

#192 - You seek change but you resist being changed

#191 - What's worth trading when you fail?

#190 - The devastation of failing

#189 - Beliefs about money...

#188 - Observations from coaching people

#187 - Learning is not a motivation problem

#186 - A better manager: wins an argument or finds the best argument?

#185 - Home truths about the Tightwad Employer

#184 - “The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet got stuck to the honey pot...”

#183 - The curse of adult learning

#182 - The four ways people show dissatisfaction

#181 - The self-conscious and the self-centered are locked in the same prison

#180 - Goodbye, old hat

#179 - Your doctor is a tailor

#178 - The sorting function of education

#177 - To be a Truthy or a Smarty?

#176 - The bully and the pushover are not that different from each other

#175 - Three leadership delusions

#174 - Do you work in an organization where everybody works one level lower than they should?

#173 - The negotiating trick few talk about

#172 - The difference between informing and evoking

#171 - What is so hard about saying NO?

#170 - Essence of strategy, rationalization, and a question on processing emotions

#169 - Feedback, observation, and coaching

#168 - Are you solving a higher class of problems today compared to yesterday?

#167 - Skeptical and open-minded: operating in two modes at the workplace

#166 - Learning from my younger selves

#165 - What's the big deal about being independent?

#164 - Three questions for your work and life

#163 - What makes work meaningful and tasks meaningless

#162 - Laziness is exhaustion

#161 - SMART goals are doing your team harm

#160 - “Could adopting a leadership style that’s not your default/natural style backfire?”

#159 - How to track a life: discovery or outcome?

#158 - Something you may miss while managing a business transition

#157 - Searching for originality

#156 - How to spend your time in the first 90 days anywhere

#155 - Just knowledge doesn't change behavior

#154 - Two stories about humility training

#153 - What we need from a job

#152 - Getting clarity when pursuing multiple, contradictory goals

#151 - Would you rather be disciplined or devoted?

#150 - When working for free makes sense

#149 - Games people play—the anatomy of social interactions

#148 - Head without heart is a logic bully

#147 - How to run multiple projects in parallel

#146 - Why is the quest for mastery so embarrassing?

#145 - Why AI may not leave us jobless

#144 - How did they achieve so much?

#143 - Strategies to be insatiably curious

#142 - Specialization is for insects

#141 - The inefficiency is the point

#140 - Be the only, not the best—the overlooked lesson in building a career

#139 - Why is hiring talent like buying a boring car?

#138 - What causes success?

#137 - Managing your perception at work

#136 - Akbar, don’t worry about Birbal

Midweek #135 - The Sorry, I Goofed Up Manager

#135 - Second-Order Thinking: The Seen and Oh, the Unseen

Midweek #134 - The Middle Manager Playbook

#134 - Premortems: Why should you kill your dream project to save it?