Niall continues to assert the usefulness of assertions, but this month, he shows you how to make your own. Last month we discussed the use of the assert() macro. Now we're going to look at how you can ...

Have you ever sat in a meeting and felt ignored or utterly unimportant? Perhaps you offered up an idea that someone else seized upon. Maybe you inserted yourself into the conversation but no one gave ...

Getting people to respect you is easy if you learn how to be more assertive by improving your communication skills the right way. A common misconception is that you need to act like an extrovert to ...

You're a grown-up girl now, but sometimes interacting with your co-workers can leave you feeling the same way you did in the second grade when a friend told you that you were stupid and she wasn't ...

Giada De Laurentiis can take the heat – literally. After years of working in other people’s restaurants, she opened her own, GIADA, in a prime location on the Las Vegas Strip. Two years into its ...

Learning to speak up and assert yourself is difficult. It requires a reconditioning of your default responses and an ability to tolerate the inevitable discomfort to create change. But nothing high ...

The key trait shared by all the managers I spoke with was perseverance. Steve Sherr, who works with Soundgarden, Lenny Kravitz and Chris Cornell, says: “If you are not aggressive and you are not ...