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In a Field Notes post from 2014, LeadingAgile consultant Andrew Fuqua considers Brooks' Law in the context of the Theory of Constraints. Brooks' Law is

Everyone from your dentist to your delivery guy is now popping up in your texts. New email-like tools, including Mark as Unread and filters, can help.

It’s better to overcommunicate and sound redundant than to undercommunicate and seem unclear and uncaring.

Tom Henschel

Silence may allow your brain to rejuvenate leaving you feeling a new freedom. Here's your brain on silence, read on to find out more.

Tom Henschel

A few years ago, I conducted research in the United States, Europe and Canada to see how gender differences in communication were displayed in the workplace. The first thing I found was that both men and women identified the same sets of strengths and weaknesses in themselves and each other. Top [...]

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

Do you feel like when you talk, no one listens? Or do you struggle to remember what you hear? Improve your speaking and listening skills with these talks.

Leaders give information, not instructions. Rather than telling people what to do, try giving the relevant information and allow people to act for themselves...

Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett at Gettysburg

Developing effective communication at work can be as simple as asking more questions. Learn more about improving communication in the workplace.

Unscramble your signals.

“What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters.”

Studies find the way people tell their own stories has an outsize effect on their life satisfaction.

If you're presenting soon, you may want to try speaking without notes. It sounds scary but here are some tips to help you get over the fear.

My clients love me! A customer told me I saved his life! I just had lunch with Popular Jane Entrepreneur, she’s so awesome! I wasn’t that impressed with Famous Joe Entrepreneur, I would have done this, this, and this! Ick. This is what self-promotion often sounds like online.

Sensitivity to other people’s emotions helps relationships; you can learn to be better at it.

It started as social software for work, but Slack now has our :heart:, time, and data.

Sometimes, you want to win really hard. So hard, you don't even try to do it fairly… or competently.

Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day - WTF? He'll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head. You loved him on Morning Sedition. You kinda liked him on The Marc Maron Show. You tolerated him on Break Room Live. Now, embrace him on a show from which he cannot be fired - WTF with Marc Maron.

No form of culture, no matter how self-explanatory, will escape unscathed.