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Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times, June 9, 2016 One of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying The period — the full-stop signal we all learn as children, whose use stretches back at least to the Middle Ages — is gradually being felled in the barrage of...
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Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree, June 5, 2016 You hear about FOMO a lot these days. In fact, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. What does it really mean? A recent study on the subject defined it as: …”the uneasy...
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Adam Grant, The New York Times, June 4, 2016 We are in the Age of Authenticity, where “be yourself” is the defining advice in life, love and career. Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the...
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Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree, May 29, 2016 We all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be kinder to our loved ones… and then we don’t do it. Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes...
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Laura W. Geller, Strategy+Business, May 21, 2016 Job seekers are keenly aware that who they know matters. A contact at a prospective employer can push a resume to the top of the pile, put in a good word, or arrange an introductory lunch. Companies, for their part, are...
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Eric Barker, Time, May 17, 2016 We all have to have difficult conversations. And they’d be easier if you knew how to be persuasive. Whether it’s dealing with family members, buying a car or negotiating a raise, persuasion is always a useful...
