18. No Feelings Please, We're At Work
I read a book a little while back, called Passionate Medicine. Five doctors and two vets told the stories of their working lives, lives...
17. The Trouble With the Things Unsaid
A friend recently told me this story. As a teenager, he was living in Nottingham, and one day the council was putting up two signs as...
16. How Do You Treat Yourself?
"You idiot! What did you do that for? Will you never learn? You make the same mistakes again and again and again. You're useless,...
15. What is Your Genius?
One of the fastest ways to get ahead at work is to do things that play to your strengths. When you're playing to your strengths you get...
14. Getting Ahead at Work (4)
I'm away on holiday at the moment and yesterday, after three days away, I had a look at my emails - there were 43 new ones. A modest...
13. Getting Ahead at Work (3)
Building relationships at work Something that rarely appears on individuals' to-do lists is 'be good to my colleagues', and yet paying...
12. Getting Ahead at Work (2)
Taking time to educate and develop yourself If you read my last tip you may have been surprised to find the list of work-related...
11. Getting Ahead at Work
How do you spend your time at work? 'Being busy does not always mean real work.' Thomas Edison Whether you are young and setting...
10. Simple Questions for Tackling Any Problem
Even in the most tranquil of lives there lurks the Difficult Person. It might be a colleague who never does what he says he'll do. Or a...
9. The Power of Life's Little Pleasures
Would you humour me by doing a little experiment? Here's a scale of 1 - 10. It's for you to measure your mood, right this minute. The...