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    Happy Launch Day to Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues!
    Louise Carnachan
    • Jun 14
    • 3 min

    Happy Launch Day to Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues!

    Woo-hoo! The three-year journey to the publication of WorkJerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues completed on June 14th...
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    Is Bragging Always Egotistical?
    Louise Carnachan
    • Mar 1
    • 3 min

    Is Bragging Always Egotistical?

    The tide was going out, but one feisty wave unexpectedly came running up much farther onto the sand. This necessitated a scramble to...
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    The Slash and Burn Narcissist
    Louise Carnachan
    • Jan 18
    • 4 min

    The Slash and Burn Narcissist

    Your run-of-the-mill narcissist may be self-absorbed but not necessarily destructive. This more benign version could throw a Richter...
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    Difficult People—Why Do They Behave That Way?
    Louise Carnachan
    • Dec 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Difficult People—Why Do They Behave That Way?

    Ah, the holidays 2021. You’ve got obligations, work, family, and the decisions whether to socialize as Covid continues. Welcome to a...
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    Why a Pay Increase Doesn't Create Happiness for Long
    Louise Carnachan
    • Oct 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Why a Pay Increase Doesn't Create Happiness for Long

    The 1960s psychologist Fredrick Hertzberg wrote One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees. His cutting-edge premise of the time was...
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    Are You on a Team? Make Everyone Look Good
    Louise Carnachan
    • Sep 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Are You on a Team? Make Everyone Look Good

    Off Limits (my former improv troupe) held a reunion in August. Three of us in person, three on Zoom. Our last photo was from 2014. Seven...
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    Self-soothing
    Louise Carnachan
    • Sep 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Self-soothing

    Early in my career, a colleague who’d had enough of my whining asked if I’d ever considered suffering in silence. The answer was, “No.”...
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    It's Hard to Stray from the Herd
    Louise Carnachan
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    It's Hard to Stray from the Herd

    I heard Dobie Gray’s version of “The In Crowd” on an oldies station a few days ago. Great song. I love the refrain, “I don’t care where...
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    Communicating Change- Rapidly!
    Louise Carnachan
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Communicating Change- Rapidly!

    For my birthday, my dear friend from Seattle joined me on a jet boat excursion up the Willamette River. It was so darn much fun! The...
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    It's About Time
    Louise Carnachan
    • Aug 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    It's About Time

    I sent email to an institution that shall remain unnamed. I offered something of value and asked with which department I should...
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    Reading the Signs
    Louise Carnachan
    • Jun 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    Reading the Signs

    About a month ago, I took a road trip for five days. It's been so long, I wasn't sure if my car would balk at extended driving. I spent...
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    How to Handle Unfair Criticism
    Vincentia Schroeter
    • Mar 15, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to Handle Unfair Criticism

    Guest blogger, Vincentia Schroeter, PhD, is a somatic psychotherapist and the author of Tilt: Seeking Balance in Troubled Times (release...
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    Believing Lies
    Louise Carnachan
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    Believing Lies

    Alan Alda has an avid interest in science and communication which he explores in the podcast, Clear and Vivid. Guests answer the same set...
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    Where's Pinocchio When We Need Him?
    Louise Carnachan
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Where's Pinocchio When We Need Him?

    In 1881, Carlo Collodi wrote a story about Pinocchio, a wooden marionette who dreams of being a human boy. It’s a morality tale...
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    Dealing with a Jackass Part Two
    Louise Carnachan
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dealing with a Jackass Part Two

    Note: Part of this post was published back in February, but I thought it was worth a reboot now that civil discourse seems to have sunk...
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    Dealing with a Jackass
    Louise Carnachan
    • Feb 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dealing with a Jackass

    Ever been in the situation when someone said something so appalling you were shocked into silence? After you’ve scraped your jaw off the...
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