Your emotional maturity dictates your ability to adjust to adverse conditions, deal with difficult people, and move past obstacles. It may even impact how you read this. That’s because emotion colors everything we do; it’s like the current on a river, carrying us whether we’re aware of it or not. If we don’t adjust for [...]
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“Hey! Why are you so impossible to deal with?!” Breaking relationship patterns in your life is hard. Usually, when you get the chance, you’ve just heard a comment like the one above… and it’s right there—right after you’ve heard that sniping comment, in in that fraction of a second before your emotions get the better [...]
I had lunch the other day with someone who told me she was sometimes appalled by how people need to be reminded of such basic skills such as how to be polite. Frankly, I don’t know why she was appalled. It’s not like any of us elitists are any more perfect than the masses—we’re just [...]
Sad but true. Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.
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 [...]
Abstract: identifying good communication skills in yourself and others.
If you don’t need to fight, don’t. If you do, fight to win.
I'm the CEO of Ajax Social Media. We're helping 1 million people shine by making their online stories better. 