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10 Life-Giving Work Habits

November 14, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Sometimes it’s the little habits that you pick up that can have the biggest impact on your productivity. Here are my favorites.

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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Work / Life Balance

October 9, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

A constant storyline in your life and within our society is figuring out how to reconcile work and life. How can we be successful and live a good life? If getting crazy rich isn’t an option, how do we have a good work/life balance? Although there are many answers, I am convinced that most of what we’ve been told is insufficient. Even worse, it undermines our ability to enjoy life.

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Office Drama? Understanding the Difference between Disagreement and Disobedience

August 29, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Two executives disagree while looking at a laptop monitor.

Disagreements amongst your staff can be essential to your company’s success. However, disobedience can undermine your team, and ultimately lead to failure. Know the difference between people who disagree, and those who disobey. What I am writing about today is obvious to most of us on a personal level, but somehow within the complexity of […]

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Lessons in Adulthood: You Don’t have to Put Up with Jargon

August 7, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

I have always hated jargon. Why do we use made-up words and silly phrases? What are we trying to prove? What’s wrong with speaking clearly? Everyone should hate these made-up words as much as me. Before I teach you how to get gangster with jargon, first lets identify 4 different kinds of jargon: Jargon that […]

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Summer 2019: Fun Changes to the Website and the Blog 🎉

July 9, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

We recently launched Version 3 of smithhousedesign.com, and we want to tell you about what we changed and why.

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Be Brave: Ask the Hard Questions

October 15, 2018 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Video thumbnail. Be Brave: Ask the Hard Questions!

I am afraid that in most meetings, even in high-level meetings, people spend too much time posturing themselves to look cool. It’s different than “looking cool” that we all practiced in high school, but the motivation is the same. We want people to like us and think we matter.

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