In life and in work, it is often easy to focus on what is going wrong than to consider what is going well. We accentuate the negative rather than the positive—and sometimes that can be the right thing ...

People don't leave organizations, they leave managers. And the data backs this up. Numerous studies have shown that a poor manager-employee relationship is one of the top reasons talented employees ...

Even when everything is going well in your life, and there's a lot of drama in your relationships, it can still be hard to find ways to be appreciative in your everyday life. Of course, no one means ...

2020 has been hard on everyone, business owners included. Now that 2021 is upon us, how do we pick up the pieces and rebuild going forward? After what has seemed like a never-ending free-fall of ...

From the moment Jason entered my office, I could tell something was amiss. I knew he had taken some recent losses in his account, but at a hedge fund that was not necessarily a big problem and I knew ...

Change management has a negative reputation — it’s often seen as synonymous with a reorganization, downsizing, restructuring, merger, and more. However, the biggest problem with change management is ...

Editor's note: The following is a contributed piece by Lindsey Godwin, academic director at the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at the Robert P. Stiller School of Business at ...

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) departs from traditional problem solving by discovering the strengths of an organization or community as the building blocks for creating and implementing a vision for the ...

Ed. Note-I am on Spring Break this week. The Two Tough Cookies graciously agreed to once again provide a week of guest posts. So, you have done your cultural assessment, you have identified gaps that ...

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