Category: Professional Development
Career and leadership themes
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Assertiveness as Authenticity: Believing in Yourself
Assertiveness can be confused with other, neighboring attitudes and behaviors with good reason, since it is often used to signify an expression of agency as do words like advocate or declare. And some may use it to convey a forceful tone, behavior that is not only direct but blunt and confrontational. When it is used Read more
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Are You Working Too Hard?
You have probably heard reference to the Protestant Work Ethic, an attitude toward work characterized by a pioneer in the field of Sociology, Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism). It’s an attitude, which Weber saw exemplified in Calvinism and most fully manifested in America. It regards work as a moral virtue, Read more