Miscellaneous

Attending networking events and connecting on LinkedIn doesn’t mean anything unless you make a personal connection. The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: What’s the best way to network? is written…

After an unfulfilling internship with a U.S. Congresswoman, my career in politics was over as fast as it started. The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: What advice would you give…

Have you ever been blindsided in a meeting? You adequately prepared. The objectives were clear. But then, BLAM! Someone objects to one of your assumptions about halfway through the meeting and others just add to the objections. You try to explain your reasoning, but no one comes to your defense. Others join in and you…

Filipino food once again took the spotlight by making it to a recent international poll. In a Facebook poll, CNN asked “Which destination has the world’s best food?”

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Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with some freakishly intelligent people. When interacting with them, my MO has always been to keep relatively quiet, remembering the words of wisdom commonly attributed to both Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln: “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it…

There’s always a significant adjustment to make when transitioning from school to the workforce, with the sudden realization that no matter how smart or talented you are, you’re starting at the bottom.

Back in 2006, when I began researching my book Breakdown, Breakthrough about how women can overcome (or bypass altogether) the twelve most common professional crises and learn to thrive, I was floored by some of the advice and stories I heard. Rather than learning about huge cataclysmic changes that altered their lives, I heard more…

Science confirms what high performers have known for years: It’s not easy being so competent. A new study from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business suggests that people with high self-control — the kind of people who remember birthdays, choose the salad instead of the fries, take on extra projects at work, and resolve conflicts easily…

Gavin McMahon, cofounder of fassforward strategy and communications consulting group in New York, thinks that it’s a fundamental mistake to see presenting advice as one-size-fits-all. He’s spent the last seven years collecting data from his company’s work with clients like Microsoft and Estee Lauder. He’s determined that presenters naturally have different ways of prioritizing words,…

Who hasn’t fantasized about walking into the boss’s office, saying: “I quit!” and then marching straight out the door? The rational side of you knows, of course, that that’s the wrong way to resign from a job. But what is the right approach? Who should you tell first? How much notice should you give? And…

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinas ranked eighth in the list of sexiest women in the world based on a survey conducted by a dating website. The 2015 Sexiest Nationalities survey, conducted by MissTravel.com, cited former Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, whose father is Filipino, and Filipino-American actress Vanessa Hudgens of “High School Musical” fame. The…

If you are one of the unlucky people who must deal with a clueless colleague or a brutish boss, you’re not alone. Sadly, far too many people at work lack basic emotional intelligence. They simply don’t seem to have the self-awareness and the social skills that are necessary to work in our complicated multicultural and…

Whatever you may have heard to the contrary, Chip Wilson is not an idiot. The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. Idiots are very rarely any of those things. But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and…

MANILA – The Philippines ranks 64th in the world in terms of social progress, a new report showed.

The Philippines is among the happiest countries in the world based on the results of a global survey ranking countries in terms of positivity, which was released on the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness last Friday.

Horrible bosses come in all shapes and sizes. You can probably think of a few previous bosses you’ve had the (dis)pleasure to work for. According to a recent poll of 2,700 respondents at Monster.com, more than one in three consider their boss to be “horrible” (38 percent) and 54 percent of respondents gave their boss…

Difficult conversations — whether you’re telling a client the project is delayed or presiding over an unenthusiastic performance review — are an inevitable part of management. How should you prepare for this kind of discussion? How do you find the right words in the moment? And, how can you manage the exchange so that it…

By Wilson Lee Flores (The Philippine Star), June 8, 2015 I believe the most important of all freedoms is economic freedom or financial independence. No matter what our politicians claim with pious speeches every Independence Day, I will only be satisfied if and when visionary and gutsy leaders can finally deliver the majority of the…

On a chilly Paris morning some years ago, I was talking to a group of young managers about building high-performance teams. As our conversation progressed, I asked them why they hadn’t already executed some of the ideas we had been talking about. I was completely taken aback by the response: Most blamed their bosses for…

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Leadership is never easy. People desire positions of high leadership without knowing the many challenges that accompany such titles. Most people equate leadership with high positions, but this is not quite the case and I do have an explanation for this.

It is wise to consider error as a friend, Let us reflect on the four interesting aspects of error: First, note its value in exact science. The “margin of error” is important to scientists in perfecting their experiments. They resort to repeating their trials to lessen the “margin of error.” Next, is the principle of…

When a colleague is mean to you, it can be hard to know how to respond. Some people are tempted to let aggressive behavior slide in the hopes that the person will stop. Others find themselves fighting back. When you’re being treated poorly by a coworker how can you change the dynamic? And if the…

What would you do if you had a working prototype of a revolutionary tablet computer that was receiving rave reviews well before Apple came out with its iPad? Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? In hindsight that seems crazy, but it’s exactly what…

‘Do we really understand the growing problem of mental health crisis and suicide? If only we can take pause to listen and show someone that we care’ We, Filipinos, have always been known to exhibit a sunny disposition in life. Despite the tragedies and the daily chaos that we face, we can always muster the…

A person may have rights under our laws. But like all rights, they have limitations. So if one goes beyond these limitations he/she may be held liable for damages as demonstrated in this case of Karen.

A successful student is someone who knows how to manage their most critical resource i.e. time. So, here are a few time management strategies to help you in becoming a good student by managing time:

BO SANCHEZ, lay preacher and bestselling author, recently launched his 38th book titled How To Deal with Difficult People, with this introduction: “Warning: This book will give you so much freedom, you’ll hate me for writing it only now.”

It was one of those rare beautiful afternoons in Dubai. The sun was out, not with guns blazing, as it usually does in the desert city. It was a perfect day to have lunch outside, under the shade of the palm trees, with my usual lunch buddies, colleagues from all over the world.