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What Nature Teaches Us About Working Under Pressure
The Venus Flower Basket Glass Sponge (euplectella aspergillum) is a type of deep sea animal. It’s also an endangered one. The sponge extracts silicic acid from seawater and converts it into silica, forming an elaborate skeleton of glass fibers. This ocean animal...
Mid-Career Crisis and What to Do About it
By Karen Darrin According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the definition of “mid-career professional” is someone who is 10-15 years into their career. If you’re like many mid-career professionals, you’ve spent more than a few years working your way up to...
Checkout the Millennial Checklist
Did you know, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates released a few months ago and reported by PEW, that Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation? Millennials (defined in 2015 as those between the ages of...
Navigate the Workplace like an Orb Weaver Spider
Any child can tell you that the whole point for a spider to weave a web is so it can catch its supper. When all grownup, the child (now adult) will go one step further and describe the spider’s web as a highly efficient method for eating dinner. After all, there’s no...
The Goby Fish and Pistol Shrimp Know a Thing or Two about Alliances
Who would have thought that the symbiotic relationship between Goby Fish and Pistol Shrimp could be a surprisingly useful point of reference when discussing smart alliances? Not me – until that is, I actually looked at these two small marine critters and noticed some...
In Pursuit of Pause
How Mindfulness can enhance Creativity & Innovation by Shannon Jordan, M.A. Mindfulness – What’s All the Hype About? The past several years have seen a proliferation of mindfulness references in both the popular media and academic research circles. The positive...
Want a better job? Make your writing more gooder.
To this day I am astounded (and befuddled) by the number of brilliant graduates fresh out of college with top-notch degrees ready to seize the working world, and yet, come across as nincompoops because they fail to write in a way that compels their readers to want to...
Collaboration in 4 Inches
Collaboration in 4 Inches Apple recently announced the introduction of the 4 inch iPhone SE – evidently in response to consumers saying they wanted something smaller now that the iPhone “5s” has been out for a couple of years. The head scratcher is that the “5s”...
Mentor Like a Meerkat
Mentor Like a Meerkat Taking Workplace Cues from Nature ~ Meerkats are those cute little critters that scurry about in an almost attention-deficit-hyper-active manner striking an upright posture when on the lookout for food or danger. What you may not know, however,...