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Fascinate and Find Out: August Highlights

It’s the August Edition of Fascinate And Find Out (#FAFO) where we recap what we’ve found Fascinating out in the wild. (Have something you want us to consider for September? Send it our way! Email us…

12 Instant inspirations for a more fascinating YOU

For your reading pleasure… my hand-picked collection of a dozen instant inspirations. Ready… set… go! 12. The greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. On some level, we all have a…

Personalites on your team (and how to lead them)

Are you motivated by enthusiasm and praise? Or are you motivated by the threat of negative consequences? In other words… carrot, or stick? (Me, I’m a carrot person.) People respond in very individual…

Your personality’s dark side: Double Troubles

Your personality has valuable, captivating differences. These attract people to you, and help you build relationships. Yet we all have one fatal flaw. When you get stressed, or tired, or out of whack…

How to know if your job is energizing (or just draining you)

Let’s be honest. You dread certain tasks. Really dread them. You might even wake up in the morning and experience a sinking “uuuugh” feeling when you remember one of them. Here’s the kicker: not only…

An introvert’s guide to feeling more fascinating

A quick introduction from Sally: A while back, a young woman walked into our office for a job interview. She wasn’t outgoing and bubbly. In fact, she almost didn’t make eye contact with me. She was…

Beware vanilla. Embrace pistachio.

Vanilla ice cream is a crowd-pleaser. Most people like it, and almost everyone will eat it. It’s easy, comfortable, and safe. The Gap khakis of ice cream. Vanilla is the comfort zone. Far fewer…

3 Insights about YOU (and your team)

Conflict can rip a team apart, skyrocketing resentment against management or even pitting co-workers against each other. But office conflicts will calm down, or even dissolve entirely, once people…

How our kids fascinate the world

As I was working on my latest book, I reflected on this sweet memory from several years ago, when I was putting the final touches to FASCINATE: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist. I just had…

8 ways to make someone happy in a “wimzickle” world

One day, when my kids were young, they were all having a bad day. Nothing made them happy. So I asked them to make a list of ways to make other people happy. Here’s what they wrote... 8 ways to make…