Confirmation bias is like wearing tinted glasses—you only see what supports your current beliefs, and everything else gets filtered out. When we engage in conversation, especially on sensitive or controversial topics, this bias acts as a gatekeeper, deciding what gets through and what doesn’t. Instead of listening with the intent to understand, we often listen […]
Emotional Intelligence EI (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is a term that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? At its core, emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize, understand, manage, and influence both your own emotions and the emotions of others. It’s like being fluent in the language […]
Leadership As a writer, I try to simplify, to summarize, to capture the essence of something in a phrase. I don’t always succeed, of course; I am too often wordy, loquacious, distracted and meandering. In my upcoming book, Change Leader? Who Me? I repeatedly describe the difference between management and leadership: Managers: thrive in a […]
“People say I should have known. Maybe. There was that thing at the holiday party, but he was really drunk. The girl was drunk too, by the way. And anyway everybody agreed to drop it and she got another job soon after, so everything worked out. “He was such a sick programmer, I mean, really […]
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