While you may not have full-blown Cell Phone Addiction, if you’re like most smartphone users you check your phone at least 58 times per day (according to data from RescueTime), and receive 46 push notifications (according to Business of Apps – although that number seems low to me). While it’s great to be able to…
Category: Soft Skills
Soft Skills Every Leader Should Practice
Great leadership isn’t a given. Leadership is often learned by making mistakes, working your way up the ranks, and even more so, by observing leaders around you that excel and even the ones who do not. You can be a leader regardless of the position you hold. Whether you aspire to be a manager, a…
How To Use The Asoh Defense
Dale Carnegie believed in the power of admitting one’s mistakes – believed so much, in fact, that this makes up his twelfth human relations principle: If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Thirty-two years after the release of Carnegie’s seminal work, How To Win Friends and Influence People, this principle was put to…
Building A Company Culture Of Value
All of the soft and hard skills in the world will not make you successful if your attitude and approach are out of sync from your organization as a whole. That said, how do you build an organization without first building a culture? It’s easy – you can’t. More and more, employees are not hired…