A few days ago, I sat across the table from a client — let’s call her Olivia — as she shared a very common work experience. In a recent team meeting, Olivia
More
By Robert Waldinger
Keep Reading
There is a well-known saying I like to quote: “I’m not tomato soup.” It means one does not try to please everyone with a recipe that is impossible to dislike, and I
More
An anesthesiologist we’ll call Jacob used to describe his job as “90% boredom, 10% horror.” With a few exceptions of challenging surgeries and managing a department of several hundred physicians and nurses,
More
Nearly fifteen years ago, in 2005, we published a Harvard Business Review article with our colleagues which introduced a new approach to personal and professional development: the idea that receiving affirmation is a powerful way
More
Stanford University neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty tells the story of performing surgery on a little boy’s brain tumor. In the middle of the procedure, the resident who is assisting him gets distracted and accidentally pierces
More
The Nine Lessons from Maryada Purushottam Vulnerability is Strength Duty Bound / Dharma is Divine In the Present (Now & Here) Harnessing the Potential Beyond the Comfort Zone Compassion to Accommodate Devoted
More
By Robert Waldinger
More
“You Don’t Have to Be Ruthless to Win: The Art of Badass Selfless Service” by Jonathan Keyser is a book that explores the idea that success in business and life doesn’t require
More
Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only
More
what is confidence, anyway? Often people think of confidence as something that the lucky few are born with and the rest are left wishing for. Not true. Confidence is not a fixed
More