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Please Join Us! What: #MTtalkWhere: TwitterWhen: Friday, December 8 @ 1 p.m. EST (6 p.m. GMT / 11:30 p.m. IST)Topic: Things That Interfere With My Family TimeHost: @Mind_Tools “Success at work without success at home isn’t success at all.”― Dale Partridge, U.S. entrepreneur and speaker How Much Is Enough? Several versions ...

“’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…”– from The Night Before Christmas, or A Visit From St. Nicholas So goes the much-loved poem that will be read to countless excited children all round the world this Christmas Eve. If only ...

You’d think that respect is a timeless value that needs no explanation. But there have been large shifts in what it looks like in the workplace over recent years. For example, not so many years ago, male managers would likely have expected to be addressed as “Mr.,” while their team ...

Turning a Blind Eye “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true,” Margaret Heffernan says in her book, “Willful Blindness.” It is often easier to ignore the truth than to look it squarely in the ...

Please join us! What: #MTtalk Where: Twitter When: Friday, November 24. 1 p.m. EST (6 p.m. GMT /11:30 p.m. IST) Topic: Minorities Matter! Host: @Mind_Tools “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” – Bertrand Russell, British ...

“You know what, Simon? I think they should fire you for what you’ve done.” As conversational gambits go, it was a showstopper. It certainly stopped me in my tracks. I began to panic. I couldn’t talk. I tried to breathe normally. This was going to be a more difficult conversation than ...

Bridget checked Instagram over breakfast, then glanced at the text notifications on her cell. She replied to a few WhatsApps before heading off to work. Bridget’s office phone showed three voicemails. She ignored those. Then she logged on to her computer, where 108 new emails beckoned for her attention. Those would ...

An Unwanted Crop Imagine that a farmer wakes up one morning to find that his crop of tomatoes has mysteriously transformed into chilli peppers! Unlikely, isn’t it? It means that he would have had to have bought chilli seeds instead of tomato seeds by mistake and then not paid any ...

When it comes to motivational clichés, I’ve heard them all. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”  Or perhaps that old classic: “Keep calm and carry on.” But, before you roll your eyes, clichés can work. Just look at Nike’s world-famous “Just Do It” slogan. It’s one that reportedly helped the ...

Please join us! What: #MTtalk Where: Twitter When: Friday, November 10 @ 1 p.m. EST (6 p.m. GMT / 11:30 p.m. IST) Topic: Small Choices, Big Changes Host: @Mind_Tools “It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us ...