Work Less and Do More

I’ve been exploring ideas around self-promoting at work, being recognized, and motivation as it relates to recognition and achievement.
What is the relationship for you between achievement and recognition? How do you know you’ve achieved something? What forms of recognition do you want for your achievements (from self? others?)? Is there a relationship? If you achieve [...]

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Update the handout again to include a slightly reformatted Happy vs. Successful diagram and a list of my web resources: ten-cultural-career-lies-v4

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In yesterday’s post Can money buy happiness, people seemed to agree that money doesn’t buy happiness directly, but it can buy choices, security, freedom, etc., which can help happiness.
This question isn’t for the book, but for my own curiosity. I was talking with several people from European countries this February. We compared tax rates, and [...]

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Well, isn’t that just the cat’s pajamas. There’s a new study out that shows that happiness may be linked to absolute levels of income, after all. Of course, as the article states, it’s linked to other things as well, like time spent with friends. This may change part of my thesis for the book. …. [...]

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I’d value your thoughts. I just wrote a fairly rambling post about my frustration at how we ignore data in favor of superstition, and that could lead to stuff like, oh, the collapse of modern society.

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One of my projects of the last year has been turning recordings of speeches and workshops I’ve given into products. I’ve got about 10 I want to produce.
I made the huge mistake of trying to work on several at once. My sound engineer returned to school halfway through. Now, I can’t even locate all the [...]

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@stephenparker on Twitter asked an excellent question:
Is it better to be objective in our decision making, or should our relationships play a role? Is it better to be right or loyal?
What a great question. Here’s my answer:
I used to be very into “being right.” After many, many years, I reviewed it (as in my “review [...]

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In my business blog today, I got a little, er, hot about tax season. In my footnote, I flamed on about the 2004 elections, noting:
One thing I’m sure of: none of you stopped to analyze the quality of your 2004 decision-making and explicitly change the criteria you used to make your bad decision. It may [...]

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People liked the “Ten Career Lies” so much that I’ve decided to share my “How to Write a Cover Letter” audio, “before” and “after” cover letter text. I created this page so I didn’t have to have the same cover letter discussion with two dozen MBA coachees every year.
http://www.SteverRobbins.com/coverletter

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Steve Mills pointed out that the Ten Cultural Career Lies handout was framed entirely in terms of limitations and negativity. I’ve revised it. See the attached ten-cultural-careers-and-success-lies-v3
See the article as a web page at: http://www.steverrobbins.com/articles/ten-career-lies.htm. If you like it, please digg it!

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