How To Quit Your Job the Right Way By James Altucher.

When I was at a corporate IT job, I kept wondering: What are all these people doing?
Many people were on the phone. Or were already outdated by new software systems. The corporation wouldn’t fire them until much later. When layoffs were mandated.

Do You Have a Time Wasting Personality? By Alexander Levit

When I met Dana Brownlee, the founder of corporate training company Professionalism Matters, we got to talking about time wasting habits. It turns out that certain types of people are actually prone to ineffective time management.

Kobe Bryant Reflects On Leadership, Legacy And The Keys To His Dominant Success By Julian Mitchell

This story was originally published on Forbes.com

Few players will ever leave a more memorable mark on professional sports than Kobe Bryant.
Sustaining an unprecedented level of success for 20 consecutive seasons with the most storied franchise in NBA history, Kobe has remained dominant despite consistently competing against rosters of talented superstars and future hall-of-famers.

Want to Quit Your Job? Here's the Emotionally Intelligent Way to Do It By Justin Bariso.

Let me tell you about Ty.

Ty's young, smart, and dynamic. I've known him for about six months; we met when he initially reached out to say he enjoyed my writing (along with a request for advice), and we hit it off immediately. Ty holds a great management position for one of the major tech companies in San Francisco (he's been there for three years), and he loves his job.

My metric for success? Happiness By Richard Branson.

John Lennon said: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” I find this sentiment to be so incredibly powerful and true.

Facing Chaos? Focus on What You CAN Control By Daniel Goleman.

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad gear. You can’t control the weather, but you can control the clothes and gear you use to deal with it.”
That’s what an outdoor leader I know says when she hears someone grumble about freezing rain or other “bad weather.”

Silly Things You Do That Make You Less Likeable By Travis Bradberry

Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that being likeable comes from natural, unteachable traits that belong only to a lucky few—the good looking, the fiercely social, and the incredibly talented. It’s easy to fall prey to this misconception. In reality, being likeable is under your control, and it’s a matter of emotional intelligence (EQ).

How to Remember What Drives Your Career By Bruce Kasanoff.

If you can remember G2C2, you can remember the four elements that will elevate your career from pretty good to great.
My theory of life goes like this: we all know the right things to do, but on a day-to-day basis, we forget them. For example, when it's 8:45 a.m. and an unimportant emergency strikes, you begin the process of forgetting what is actually important.

Business etiquette rules high performers forget by Penelope Trunk.

At work we often have to remind ourselves that “it’s not personal-- it’s business.” And it’s no coincidence that the people who are best at running a business and managing profit and loss are usually the ones who are least concerned with peoples’ feelings.

Research-Proven Tricks That Make You Seem Smarter Than You Are By Travis Bradberry.

It’s great to be smart, but intelligence is a hard thing to pin down. In many cases, how smart people think you are is just as important as how smart you actually are.

5 Reasons StartUps Fail By Laura Mitchell.

Every day I get to work with some of the most innovative and entrepreneurial companies. They’re creative, agile, fun and inspirational. It really got me thinking about my own experience as an entrepreneur, and I thought about mistakes that I and other companies have made. What I came up with is a list of five common startup mistakes and why you should avoid them.

The Fatal Resume Mistake You Won't Realize You're Making By Liz Ryan.

If you've spent time in the business world, you are probably brainwashed. Most of us are. We've been taught a lot of things that aren't true.

Critical Things Ridiculously Successful People Do Every Day By Travis Bradberry.

Having close access to ultra-successful people can yield some pretty incredible information about who they really are, what makes them tick, and, most importantly, what makes them so successful and productive.

To Hug or Not to Hug in the Workplace? An Important Question to Embrace. By Bill McGowan.

On a daily basis, the coaches in our firm grapple with a question that is not likely addressed at Harvard Business School, unless I'm overlooking in the course catalogue something called Physical Boundaries in Contemporary Corporate Culture.

Should Leaders Focus on Results or People? Travis Bradberry.

People often debate what makes a better leader: the no-nonsense, results-focused type or the motivational, people-focused type. New research has provided the answer—neither.

Um, Ah, Er: Does Hesitation Make You a Better Speaker? By Susan Cain

Have you ever wished you could eradicate the ums and ahs right out of your conversation and especially your public presentations?

10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Blogging Gretchen Rubin

Unbelievable! I just hit my tenth anniversary for this blog. I can’t believe it. The days are long, but the years are short.

Our young can’t get started and the old can’t stop Manish Shah

There’s plenty to worry about in India at the moment – the current drought, whether we have the freedom to express ourselves or not and why we're out of the World Cup. But one of the most worrying things is the current state of employment and our preparedness for the days ahead.

Why Einstein Never Cleaned His Desk By Russell Thompson

I’m sure that we all went through “messy” phases when we were teenagers. Our rooms were our havens of disorganisation and chaos, much reflecting the tumultuous feelings running through our heads. Living in a messy room made us feel alive.