Month: August 2008

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Expect Success, Plan for Failure

The more complex a system or situation, the more true this phrase is. I am a firm believer in having backups within

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Portion Control: Making Empowering Choices

A while back, I was at a dinner for a large group of people. I mean large both in terms of number

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Coat & Tie vs. Global Warming: Which One Wins?

A recent New York Times article dealt with a 30-day experiment raising the thermostat settings (72 to 77 in general, 70 to

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You can’t win if you don’t play

You can’t win the game sitting on the bench. It’s hard to impact results standing on the sidelines. You have to get

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Debt: Friend or Foe?

Debt: Friend or Foe? In some respects this is a silly question. I might as well ask “Food: Friend or Foe?” In

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Four Ways to Spend Money

There are four ways you can spend money: 1) “You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, you

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“Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress”

“Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress,” is a collection of essays edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington. Its

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“I intend to” vs “Immediate I have”: Empowerment and win-win performance agreements

Empowerment has been globally defined as “the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform

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A Plug For Contentment

I think of contentment as the stepsister of happiness. If happiness is the swan, contentment is the ugly duckling. Everyone is pursuing