Many times over the past 15 years of my professional life, I have dreaded my birthday. It wasn't the getting-a-year-older thing. It was the let's-all-gather-in-the-conference-room-for-cake-and-forced-fun thing. Or at least, in most offices I worked in, it usually felt like forced fun to me. It got to the point where if my birthday fell on a weekday, I'd choose to take that day as a personal day, … [Read more...]
FREE Introvert Insight eBOOK! (A bit of shameless self-promotion + a word of advice)
While I'm pretty sure it wasn't an introvert who first said, "The more, the merrier!", that's what I'm saying today. Fri, Aug 10 and Sat, Aug 11, I'm offering the Kindle edition of my first book, "Insight: Reflections on the Gifts of Being an Introvert," for free. Already more than 1,500 people have downloaded their copy. That's merry, indeed! Since the book first became available at the end of … [Read more...]