Kindness is rarely inappropriate.
Compassion, breathing, noticing — that buddhist sense of detachment. All can help us be better leaders and better human beings.
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Month: June 2013
Those Grammar Gaffes Will Get You
It pays to nitpick.
I’m definitely a badge carrying member of the grammar police…and I make mistakes sometimes. This snippet as part of an HBR blog series has some useful tidbits. Please, please, please learn the rules of “I” versus “me” — getting this right really means something!!
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Can You Overdo People Skills?
Lessons from one revered American president who might have been too soft.
Yup, an overused strength can be problematic. Even good people skills. Learn from Lincoln.
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Robert Cialdini explains the six ways to influence people
One of my favorite bloggers provides this terrific and brief overview of Cialdini’s 6 classic principals of influence:
- Reciprocity
- Consistency (reminds me of Emerson’s “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
- Social Proof
- Liking
- Authority (as in being know as one)
- Scarcity
Seems so simple and yet so few people do it well…
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