Overreliance on Computer May Leave You Ill-Suited for High-Trust Jobs
[NOTE: This post was updated March 2018] Many of us have seen, heard, or read about the computer geek who is so consumed about...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Mar 8, 2012
A Positive Mindset and Happy Attitude Help You Succeed at Work
In his book, “The Happiness Advantage” (2010) Shawn Achor asserts that happy employees can actually help improve an organization’s bottom...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 21, 2011
Virtual Workplaces and Telework
I saw an article on Time magazine’s website today called, “The Beginning of the End of the 9-to-5 Workday?” (Schawbel, 2011). The article...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Oct 3, 2011
Bosses and Powerful People Do Not Listen
A recent study found that the more power people have, the more likely they will discount advice due to an elevated sense of confidence in...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 28, 2011
Steve Jobs Resigns – The Failure to Disengage and Price of Workaholism
Steve Jobs, the charismatic and visionary founder of Apple Computers has resigned (August 24, 2011). Not to worry, he’s now assumed the...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 19, 2011
The Three Burnout Subtypes
[NOTE: This post was updated November 2016] Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job,...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 27, 2011
Lack of Sleep Contributes to Unethical Conduct
Most of us understand the importance of sleep and its impact on our health and safety. Extending the importance of sleep further into the...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 14, 2011
Failure is a Better Teacher than Success
“Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
May 18, 2011
Information Overload: Too Much Information Becomes Noise
[Note: This post was updated January 2021 for freshness & clarity.] In “Information Overload: Causes, Symptoms and Solutions,” an article...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 3, 2011
Multitasking Doesn’t Work
[NOTE: This post was updated January 2017] Multitasking is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. But it’s important to...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 14, 2011
Creating an Ethical Organizational Culture
[NOTE: This post was updated October 2016] “Having an organizational culture that emphasizes ethical behavior can cut down on misbehavior...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 5, 2011
What Happens When Leaders Set High Expectations?
Some of you may have heard that when leaders set high expectations followers rise to meet them. Well, there’s actually a concept called...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 14, 2011
Less Talk, More Action-The PAR Technique
In his book, Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton talks about a problem many of us see in our workplaces — too much talking and not enough...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 9, 2011
The True Financial Cost of Job Stress
It is estimated that job stress cost U.S. businesses between $150 billion (Spielberger, Vagg, & Wasala, 2003, citing Wright and Smye) and...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Nov 26, 2010
The Dangers of Charismatic Leaders
[NOTE: This post was updated December 2022 for freshness & clarity, and to remove and replace broken URL links.] Professor Robert Sutton...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Nov 5, 2010
Workplace Incivility Causes Mistakes and Even Kills
Research on workplace incivility (for example, emotional abuse or rudeness in the workplace) revealed that if someone is rude to you at...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Oct 29, 2010
Customers Hate Rudeness Even When It’s Not Directed at Them
In their research studies, Porath, MacInnis, & Folkes (2010) “demonstrate[d] that witnessing an incident of employee-employee incivility...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 30, 2010
Work Stresses, Bad Bosses, and Heart Attacks
“In 2007, nearly 80 million Americans—one out of every three adults—had some type of cardiovascular disease (CVD)…[In fact,] CVD has been...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 18, 2010
Busy Work and Fake Work
In “Fake Work” Peterson & Nielson (2009) contend that “much of the hard work people do for their organization does little to link people...
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Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 3, 2010
Coaching and Mental Illness
“Coaching is normally seen as an activity to enhance performance and achievement of goals” (Buckley, 2010, p. 394). When coaches talk...
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