by The Learning Advantage | Apr 3, 2025 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
I work with some brilliant leaders who see solutions to issues long before their peers and directs and often before their bosses. Their acuity can make them become impatient and cranky when others don’t see what is obvious to them. When asked for clarification they...
by The Learning Advantage | Mar 2, 2025 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
I was talking with a friend who I’d thought of as driven, motivated, and always on top of things. But he admitted that he often struggles with procrastination. What was his secret to overcoming it, I asked. He told me he eats the frog first. The phrase “eat the frog...
by The Learning Advantage | Feb 2, 2025 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
What makes people believe negative things they hear about others? When I hear someone spreading harmful stories about someone else, I tend to question their motives. And it makes me distrust that person and wonder what they are saying about me. Too many careers have...
by The Learning Advantage | Dec 8, 2024 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
Last November at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, best-selling authors Ina Garten and John Grisham shared their sometimes surprising paths to career success and the lessons they learned along the way. In his latest book, Framed, Grisham...
by The Learning Advantage | Nov 3, 2024 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
An otherwise competent employee often complains about people in other departments who aren’t working hard enough, don’t come to the office enough, and take too much time off. He doesn’t realize that he also takes time off and can’t be working that hard if he has time...