Many of us find our work rather boring and when we do, we tend to blame ourselves.

Many of us walk the earth with a feeling that, in order to acceptable, we need to be something very special indeed.

For most of history, we had no choice around most things in our lives: there was only one job we could do and it would be chosen for us by...

Both at a psychological and at a political level, we have backgrounds that have emphasised the art of indirectness.

Diplomacy is an art that evolved initially to deal with problems in the relationships between countries.

One of the worst ways to try to get anyone to evolve is to imply that their difficulties might be theirs and theirs alone.

That said, if there is one generalisation we can hazard about humans in the workplace, it is that they are - first and foremost - tricky: they make too much...

Imagine someone who is deeply efficient. Their life is full of the best sorts of habits.

There’s a fundamental distinction to be made between two kinds of thinking: figuring out what we would like to achieve and working out how to achieve it.

When we get angry, impatient, disappointed and generally maddened by those we work with, there is a fatally attractive explanation of our troubles always to hand: we are surrounded by...