self-coaching: bad habits
We all do things we wish we didn’t. Bite our nails, procrastinate, eat junky food or spend too long at the office. I don’t believe in blaming it on habits, though. We do things for a reason. If you can […]
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We all do things we wish we didn’t. Bite our nails, procrastinate, eat junky food or spend too long at the office. I don’t believe in blaming it on habits, though. We do things for a reason. If you can […]
Read More »The thing about job interviews is – they’re for the candidate too. You’re not there to talk someone into giving you a job. You’re there to decide if the job is right for you. Asking questions is a big way […]
Read More »If you’d like to read more of my writing, here’s how to do it. 1. I write for UN Dispatch, a foreign affairs website. My articles are here. 2. I used to write at Blood and Milk, a personal website […]
Read More »Some people look as failure as a bad sign. Failing means you’re a loser, that you did things wrong. That you’re stupid or incompetent. Others see failure as a good sign – they believe failing means you tried something major. […]
Read More »This was written for a project which will never happen, but I thought it might be of use to people who work internationally but not in global health. Infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms, usually bacteria or viruses, and they […]
Read More »I went on a jet-ski ride last summer with two of my oldest friends. A jet-ski, for the uninitiated, is one a two or three-person watercraft, pretty much the boat equivalent of a motorcycle. It turns out that maybe putting […]
Read More »This is the best use of big data ever; it does something that has never been tried before using the kind of computing power we’ve never had before, to solve huge, complex problems. Duck of Minerva provides an thoughtful and […]
Read More »Food Security: According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and […]
Read More »These aren’t so much resources for change as resources for better travel, but travel’s a big part of this career, right? If you are flying to an EU country on an EU carrier, or out of the EU on any […]
Read More »Next week I head off to TED Women, theme – “It’s about time.” (If you want to do in-person coaching in San Francisco, email me quickly because my schedule is firming up.) This week’s self-coaching is also, therefore, about time. […]
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