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Seppo Helava’s post is spot on in examining the tension between tolerating difficult working environments and overdelivering. One of the harder years of my life was 2009, when I worked most if not all weekends, and I think Labor Day was the first holiday that year that I wasn’t in the office. And yet I…

“Freedom is being disliked by other people.” I’m reading The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichirou Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, which is an exploration of Adlerian psychology through a fictitious conversation between a young man and a philosopher, and just came across this quote which I assume serves as the basis for the book title….

Give yourself time to explore. In your career, it can be tempting to choose the next available option. I did this for the first 20 years of my career. I would get bored at one job, I’d start looking around, and then take the next job that accepted me. I would take a couple weeks…

Take the next step until you don’t want to take another step. It can be overwhelming to figure out what you want to do when there are many available options. Rather than spend time dithering about what the “right” thing to do is, I often find it more helpful to pick a step, any step,…

There are many people I know who believe the world shouldn’t be this way, that ideas and issues are what matter. I’ve had people tell me that Pfeffer’s descriptions of how power works in his books Power and 7 Rules of Power are “gross”. And I wish they were right, that these tactics wouldn’t be…