How I Got My Life Back
In 2016, I left the office work-setting to embark on a completely different career in a new field. I was no longer an employee with supervisors assessing my[...]
Andrea Ruth
Latest Blog Posts — Page 28
Andrea Ruth
George Washington vs. Workplace Drama
When George Washington was a teenager, he both copied out by hand and tweaked 110 “rules of civility and decent behavior.” These rules had been compiled by[...]
Jeremy Lott
Money Isn’t Everything
A surprising number of people are not primarily motivated by money. In fact, some studies have found that there is only a weak connection between job[...]
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The Science of Decision Fatigue
Think back to the last decision you made. What were your options? How did you choose what to do? Most importantly, was the outcome of this decision[...]
Erin Wildermuth
Don’t Choose Your Lunch
Back in 2014, Barack Obama declared that he only focused on making the most-important decisions. “I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Best Tools for Decision Making
Decision making is a big part of leadership. As a leader, one is expected to take decisions all the time. Some of these are of a routine nature, while others[...]
Pratik Dholakiya
Check Baby, Checklist
We are a society of list-makers. We gather groups of to-dos and to-don’ts, would-bes and should-bes, and we slap them down on legal pads and post-it notes,[...]
Andrea Williams
New Coke: Anatomy of a Terrible Decision
The Coca-Cola Company’s own website admits that it was probably “a day that will live in marketing infamy.” On April 23, 1985, Coke Chairman and CEO[...]
Jeremy Lott
Apples, Oranges, and Arguments
One of the bigger problems when it comes to rational discussion today is that we don’t quite know what we are comparing. Everybody has heard the cliché that[...]
Anthony Gill
Leader: Know Thy Biases
The road sign in my home state of Washington read: “Litter and it will hurt.” I didn’t think twice about it, but our guests from nearby Vancouver,[...]
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