Entries by First Sun Team

#Strategy : 5 Phrases That Signal You’re About To Make A Bad Decision…Sometimes Deep Down, we’re Aware that the Choice We’re About to Make Isn’t the Best Decision. Yet, Rather than Change Course, we Offer Excuses to Justify What we’re About to Do.

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Instead of Preventing ourselves from Heading Down the Wrong path–or Admitting we Made a Mistake–we Defensively Attempt to Rationalize our Behavior. Ultimately, we Keep Digging ourselves Deeper. Fotolia.com Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, everyone behaves impulsively, gives into immediate gratification, or overlooks risk sometimes. Here are five statements we try to use to justify our […]

#Strategy : 4 Tough Things you Have To Do to Win at Life…Just Because Someone else Tells you That you “Should” be Doing Something Doesn’t Mean That it’s Best to Automatically Run to Do It.

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You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be Awesome. You Don’t Even Have to be Right Most of the Time.You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be Awesome. You Don’t Even Have to be Right Most of the Time.But you can’t make excuses for what you do — and you can’t avoid working incredibly hard. […]

#Strategy : How America Became Exceptional…Just as the Foresight of our Predecessors had far Reaching Consequences, so Do the Ones we Make Today. We Should Endeavor to Make Wise Ones.

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What Made America Great was the Choices we Made. While the Rest of the World Clung to Class & Caste, we Chose to Offer Hope & Opportunity. When Europe descended into death and destruction, we chose to be a beacon for those who wanted a better life. Within our borders, desperation was transformed into hope, […]

#Leadership : Why Mean People Still Get Ahead at Work…The Crueler he (my Boss) Behaved, the More they Seemed to Follow him Around with Puppy-Dog Eyes.

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Years ago, I worked alongside a man who was a real tyrant.  He would bark orders at his direct reports, and they would practically jump out of their shoes to do as he asked. Cruel leaders may only seem well-liked. The crueler he behaved, the more they seemed to follow him around with puppy-dog eyes. […]

#Leadership : These 32 Business Clichés Need to Die…If You’re the One Doing It, Know that Abusing Clichés can Seriously Undermine your Credibility. Here is a List of Overused Business Expressions & the Reasons they Should be Put to Rest Once & for All.

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When you Hear a Business Contact Using yet Another Cliché, What’s the First Thing that Comes to Mind? For me, it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. Sure, there are times when using a cliché makes sense. When a person uses one after another, or the context is clearly not right, it’s super annoying. If you’re […]

#Strategy : Losing Sleep? Your Wallet Is To Blame…84% Feel That They are Not in Control of their Current Financial Situation. Nearly 75% of All Adults are Losing Sleep Over Some Sort of Money Woe.

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“I Think Part of the Challenge is There Hasn’t Been Real Growth in Incomes, The Cost of Groceries, Cost of Healthcare, etc, Those Kinds of Expenses have a Normal Inflationary Increase, But I Don’t Think Wage Increases have Kept in Line.” (Indeed, while the U.S. job market has been adding jobs in recent months, wage growth […]

#Leadership : Overcoming Burnout: 5 Ways To Get Back On Track At Work…What Is Burnout? Career Burnout is a Chronic Psychological Condition Characterized by Exhaustion, Cynicism & a Lack of Professional Efficacy

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Why People Experience Burnout ?  Excessive workloads, unrealistic time pressures and resulting exhaustion certainly contribute to burnout, but they alone are not responsible. Day-to-day social interactions and a lack of civility in the workplace are a primary cause. “I haven’t seen you smile in a week,” Anne vividly recalls her husband saying. She was in […]

#Leadership : How To Answer Nasty, Scathing Emails…This Type of Email is Known in Cyberspace as “Flaming,” & All such Messages have a Single Thing in Common—A Complete & Utter Lack of Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

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We’ve All Been on the Receiving End of a Scathing Email, as well as its mysterious, vaguely insulting cousins. You know the messages I’m referring to. They don’t need exclamation points or all caps to teem with anger and drip with sarcasm. Dressing someone down via email is tempting because it’s easy—you have plenty of […]