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CNBC
A career coach's best tips for success after quitting your job: 'Get clear about your goals’
CNBC
2 min read · Aug 25th · A career coach gives her best tips for people quitting their jobs to explore new career paths. · Shared by 66
The Independent
Inside the cheating scandal that rocked the chess world
The Independent
5 min read · Sep 25th · A 19-year-old defeated Magnus Carlsen, often described as the best chess player who ever lived. Chaos followed, reports Richard Hall · Shared by 66
betterup.com
Start Finding Your Purpose and Unlock Your Best Life
betterup.com
8 min read · Sep 26th · Finding purpose can give your life meaning and help improve your overall health. Discover 12 ways to find your purpose and live your most fulfilling life. · Shared by 647
insidesmallbusiness.com.au
Rituals to create work-life balance when your bedroom doubles as your office
insidesmallbusiness.com.au
2 min read · Sep 26th · The need for incorporating easy-to-integrate rituals and practices into our working day can be helpful in striking a work-life balance. · Shared by 244
airtree.vc
Being a founder and a parent
airtree.vc
2 min read · Sep 25th · Finding the balance of being a parent and doing your life’s work, without losing out on either, is no easy task. Here's how 4 founders manage the juggle. · Shared by 63
dailydot.com
‘Here are actual ways to get a job’: Recruiter shares LinkedIn job application hack
dailydot.com
3 min read · Sep 25th · A TikToker has gone viral for sharing a tip that she says will help people land a job interview better than any blind job application. · Shared by 63
CNBC
Some of the best roles are posted on ‘hidden’ job boards—how to find them
CNBC
3 min read · Sep 22nd · “There’s a lot of great positions — at least 60%, I’d say — that never make it to the public job boards,” career and leadership coach Stacey Perkins says. · Shared by 72, including LARRY ELKAN
talentlms.com
Survey: Gen Z in the Workplace
talentlms.com
2 min read · Sep 24th · What Gen Z wants in the workplace, which skills young employees want to build, and what constitutes a great workplace for Generation Z. · Shared by 60
Inc.
Mark Cuban Says the Worst Career Advice is 'Follow Your Passion.' What Should You Do Instead?
Inc.
3 min read · Sep 20th · Turns out it's something you already do. You just need to turn it up a notch. · Shared by 70, including LARRY ELKAN
Inc.
7 Smart Phrases People With High Emotional Intelligence Keep Saying Over and Over, and Why
Inc.
5 min read · Sep 19th · Shared by 192, including Deirdre Breakenridge, Marsha Collier
fullstackeconomics.com
I'm a professional dad who "leaned out" to support my wife's career
fullstackeconomics.com
10 min read · Sep 22nd · If we want an equal society, we need to get more comfortable with unequal marriages. · Shared by 33, including Alexandra Sifferlin, Diane Coyle
Austin Kleon
Not knowing what’s impossible
Austin Kleon
2 min read · Sep 6th · Q: You got away with enormous technical advances, didn’t you? A: Simply by not knowing that they were impossible. Orson Welles on the genius in not-knowing: pic.twitter.com/uikbK3Q5ry — Austin Kleon… · Shared by 85
Morning Brew ☕️
How to change industries without prior experience
Morning Brew ☕️
2 min read · Sep 12th · What it takes to break into a new industry. · Shared by 71
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Rare Skills
collabfund.com
3 min read · Sep 9th · Three rare and powerful skills: 1. Understanding how people justify their beliefs in a way that makes you respect their delusions. A rare and useful skill is understanding that people you find to be… · Shared by 651
betterup.com
Start Finding Your Purpose and Unlock Your Best Life
betterup.com
8 min read · Sep 26th · Finding purpose can give your life meaning and help improve your overall health. Discover 12 ways to find your purpose and live your most fulfilling life. · Shared by 647
Lifehack
8 Tips on Adopting a High-Performance Mindset
Lifehack
7 min read · Sep 2nd · Curious to know how to have a high-performance mindset? Here are 8 tips to achieve this mindset to reach success and peak performance. · Shared by 488
Harvard Business Review
Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · Sep 9th · Too often, when we need to make a difficult decision, we rush through it to avoid sitting with uncomfortable emotions. But channelling those emotions — a process the author calls “emotional… · Shared by 478, including Robert Rose, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Gabriele, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, davidabrock, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Kate Nasser
Bustle
The Secret To Pursuing A Goal Without Getting Burnt Out
Bustle
7 min read · Aug 24th · Work-life balance *is* possible: Here, experts give tips for how to pursue a goal without it taking over your entire life or causing burnout. · Shared by 430, including Stephanie A Kowalski
amivora.substack.com
Soliciting hard feedback
amivora.substack.com
2 min read · Sep 5th · Last week, I wrote about ways I’ve learned to deal with hard feedback. But getting that feedback in the first place is just as important. The times most of us get tough criticism — annual performance… · Shared by 429
CNN
Microbreaks can increase your well-being, but only if you do these types of activities, experts say
CNN
3 min read · Sep 1st · Breaks lasting 10 minutes or less can increase energy and reduce fatigue for workers in some types of jobs but show minimal results for others. · Shared by 355, including Ines Bieler
radreads.co
Is quiet quitting a real thing?
radreads.co
3 min read · Aug 28th · Quiet Quitting has become all the rage for Gen Zs. Sure, you can be checked out. But at what cost? Are you missing something bigger? · Shared by 288
VANITY FAIR
The Professional Try-Hard Is Dead, But You Still Need to Return to the Office
VANITY FAIR
4 min read · Sep 6th · In the era of the Great Resignation, remote work, and “quiet quitting,” general disillusionment with white-collar striving has gone mainstream. The managerial set has yet to be CC’d. · Shared by 257, including Ines Bieler, Mo Ryan, Ed Zitron, Stowe Boyd
Greater Good
How to Learn from Your Failures
Greater Good
7 min read · Aug 24th · Research suggests that we need to overcome some emotional and cognitive barriers if we’re to learn from our defeats—but it can be done. · Shared by 255, including Nir Eyal
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Farnam Street
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Farnam Street
5 min read · Jul 10th · Don't set goals. Passion is bullshit. Mediocre skills are valuable. These are just a few of the unexpected truths you'll discover in Scott Adams' new book. Here are 10 more takeaways. · Shared by 2342, including Michelle Boisson, Ines Bieler, Mike Taylor, Tarik ESSAADI
Aeon+Psyche
How to know what you really want
Aeon+Psyche
20+ min read · 2021-12-15 · From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life · Shared by 1852, including Nir Eyal, Anita Leirfall, Ludovica Brocchi, David Nagel, Anita Hill, Vitor Furtado Silva
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Why is ambition important?
blog.superhuman.com
8 min read · Jul 20th · Why is ambition important? Learn from some of the most ambitious entrepreneurs and their successes (and failures). · Shared by 1640, including shishir das
Tim Urban
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
Tim Urban
From 2018 · Our career path is how we spend our time, how we support our lifestyles, how we make our impact, and even sometimes how we define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track. · Shared by 1598, including Hampus Jakobsson, Mike Taylor, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Kevan Lee 👋, Zain Fathoni, Dominik Grolimund, Mathias Möller, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Kevin_Indig, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Gabriele, Ricky Yean, Todd Henry, Hannah Morgan, Katja Evertz, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Sachin Rekhi, Tris Hussey, Mikael Krogerus
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Managing up
ellenchisa.substack.com
9 min read · May 29th · yes, you have to do it · Shared by 1563, including Ines Bieler, Mark Kaigwa, jorge-ferrer, Gabriele
TED Talks
5 ways to show you can lead — even when you don’t have a leadership role
TED Talks
3 min read · May 6th · If you want to become a team leader or manager, you’ll have to demonstrate that you can lead without having an official role to point to. Here’s how you do that, from organizational psycholog… · Shared by 1417, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Ines Bieler
Stylist Magazine
This is why we’re so addicted to feeling busy at work (and what to do about it)
Stylist Magazine
1 min read · Jun 3rd · The answer lies in the concept of “optimal busyness” · Shared by 1339, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Ines Bieler
Farnam Street
How to Remember What You Read
Farnam Street
~15 min read · 2021-08-16 · The benefits of reading are negated if you forget remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention. Learn how to use active reading to remember more from books. · Shared by 1178, including Stephan Spencer, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Jason Lauritsen, Tauno, Scott Monty, Stephanie A Kowalski, David Papandrew, Galen King, Víctor González Pacheco, Teresa Torres, Vikram Dutt, flawn
Farnam Street
The Surprising Power of The Long Game
Farnam Street
2 min read · 2021-12-12 · In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the… · Shared by 1121, including Johannes Dornisch, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
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