Denice Kronau

I am an optimist by nature, a glass half-full kind of person. (Funny aside for a moment -- a colleague once said to me, "I don't see the glass as half full or half empty, I see the wrong-sized glass.") I rarely use my blog to complain about something. This...

How do we connect in a disconnected world?

I realize that I am not the first to address the communication challenges of today, when we're all connected 24/7 and via a multitude of electronic devices -- PDAs, tablets, laptops -- the list is endless. While offering convenience, these devices also...

If you're someone I admire, please come sit next to me. I could use a little time breathing the same air as you.

Most people I know admire people who are out of reach -- Mother Theresa, Derek Jeter, Lady Gaga -- to name a few and I do as...

Does anything really good happen before 9 a.m.?

I am firmly convinced it doesn't. And please, folks, don't ask me to meet with you before 9 a.m. You might have something important to say, but for me it's the equivalent of fingernails scratching a blackboard.

I just think talking before...

This week I was speaking to a colleague who has made a significant life choice in respect to her job: she's following a new path and will take a brief sabbatical before venturing in a new direction.

It's actually an old direction: she's going back to the work she loves....

Do you remember your first job? More specifically, do you remember when you first got paid to do something?

Mine was picking fruit.

I was 10 years old and my maternal grandmother, Stasia, had a strawberry patch in her yard. It seemed enormous to me at the time, but...

Having spent the last five years writing about being happy at work, I am often asked: "What do I need to do to be happy at work?"

Frankly, it's the same as the old joke about Carnegie Hall in New York City. A tourist was visiting New York and asked...

How do you recognize when you are working too much and for the wrong reasons?

Who today truly keeps their perspective of what's normal or acceptable when it comes to work? Surviving the economic crisis of 2009 has pushed the limits of what is normal working behavior. The rules are...