In business, we don’t like it when people allow their emotional “baggage” to get between them and a smart decision.
Interestingly, we generally expect such behavior.
Generally.
With one critical exception: When planning.
During the planning process, we tend to assume that people are perfectly able to get their acts together on call. Never mind that we are surrounded [...]
Abstract: identifying good communication skills in yourself and others.
If you don’t need to fight, don’t. If you do, fight to win.
On your way up the corporate ladder, you are bound to come across “zero sum” situations in which there will be a winner and a loser. When you reach one of these moments, compassion, honor, and self-indulgence will suddenly become luxuries you cannot afford. In a battle for that single open slot, the compassionate candidate can be hurt, the honorable shamed, and the self-indulgent ridiculed.
Rejection won’t kill you; how you handle it might.
Abstract: Branding yourself as someone who is a passionate go-getter by communicating with emotional impact during a job interview.