Work on your time management, communication skills and assertiveness to improve your performance this year, Maurie Backman writes. Doing so will improve your work relationships and open up opportunities.
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It's not always helpful to jump in when a colleague pauses, as it can make a conversation more like a competition, writes Jennifer V. Miller. "When talking with someone, learn to view these verbal fillers as a request for a few more seconds of airtime for the speaker, rather than losing patience or seeing the person as less credible," she writes.
A shrinking labor pool has employers hiring people they normally might pass over, such as those with a criminal record and those who have been out of work. The shift has put more prime-age workers -- people ages 25 to 54 -- into the workforce, economists say.
Complacency could be holding you back from new opportunities, Gary Burnison writes. Consider looking for openings within your company, network and commit to the challenge of job seeking even if it seems hard to begin.
The Isabella Stewart Garden Museum in Boston is seeking to recover 13 works -- including ones by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet -- that were stolen in 1990. The museum's board has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the works, which are valued at $500 million.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
