The accommodation that costs nothing
When an employee asks for a workplace accommodation, a supervisor’s first thought is usually a number. Equipment to buy. Construction to schedule. A…
Category: Personal Development
You are not wasting the AI’s time
New users often apologize to AI. They type “sorry, give me a minute” before stepping away from the keyboard, the way you would to a colleague standing at…
She had already told everybody yes
The hardest part was not turning down Elvis Presley. It was that she had already told everybody yes. Dolly Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You” in 1973…
The dignity is in the doing
We tend to assume that meaning comes bundled with the job — that the title, the salary, or the prestige decides whether the work matters. A well-known…
The reason the company put rules on AI
If your employer recently limited how much artificial intelligence you can use, the reason probably was not you. It was the slide decks. Leaked audio…
Why your chatbot costs so little
The price of AI has nothing to do with how hard the question is. A chatbot charges the same for a birthday poem as for…
Bowling together: Why work is more than a paycheck
Ask someone what a lifetime of work gave them, and notice how rarely they begin with the money. They start with people. The lunch table…
To get better answers, ask AI to disagree with you
Here is a quirk worth knowing about most AI assistants: they are built to be agreeable. Ask whether your plan is a good one, and you will often get a warm…
Give the credit away
Here is a finding that runs against instinct. When behavioral researcher Joseph Folkman studied roughly 3,800 leaders, each rated by the people around…
Why reliable beats brilliant
The most talented person on a team is rarely the one handed the most important work. That tends to go to someone who does what they said they would do,…