career Archives – Decision Fish: Decide For Yourself

‘Hey Boss, Can You Lend Me $4,000?’

Brett F. Whysel — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:00:23 +0000

How You’ll Know There’s a Problem Sometimes employees’ financial stresses get so intense, they become unavoidable management issues. They can reduce productivity and engagement and increase turnover, healthcare utilization, absenteeism and worse. Employers’ resources for addressing this kind of issue are typically very limited. It’s not unheard of for employees to directly ask their managers ... Read more

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Career Advice from a Stoic

Brett F. Whysel — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:00:31 +0000

I recently visited with a 27 year old who asked me for help in figuring out what to do with his life. He is about to start at a prestigious graduate school and is feeling pressure to make some big career decisions quickly. Here’s the letter I wrote him, inspired by Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Before you ... Read more

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Got a Tough Decision? Fuggedaboutit!

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:08:17 +0000

I’ve got a wickedly complex decision to make. What should my priorities be now that I no longer have a full-time banking job? I’ve got at least a dozen different alternatives, each with subtle-to-obvious differences with respect to my key values including impact on my family, benefit to society, intellectual challenge, financial security and leverage of ... Read more

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Career Decisions & the U-Shaped Happiness Curve

Brett F. Whysel — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:41:36 +0000

The Atlantic recently ran this terrific article by Jonathan Rauch about the nearly universal u-shaped path of happiness that most humans and some primates follow: Happiness starts relatively high in early adulthood, declining steadily until late 40s or early 50s, when it picks up again until the final years. It appears to be much more ... Read more

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Approach and Avoid: How to Use the SCARF Model to Set Better Conditions for Career Decisionmaking

Brett F. Whysel — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:45:52 +0000

We can we improve our ability to make wise choices in business and personal life by better understanding our brains and setting up conditions conducive to good decision-making. A good example is when we are confronted with a major life decision such as whether to seek (or accept) a new job. While few would argue this ... Read more

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