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Titles Don’t Make a Leader, Six Principles of Leadership That Do

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On the Importance of Being a Good Bad Loser

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The Joy of Satisficing

Satisficing is a combination of the words satisfy and suffice. Satisficing is a decision-making tool that refers to being content with finding

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The Little Big Difference

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“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”

“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way,” by Amanda Ripley (Simon and Schuster; 320 pages: $28) Journalist

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That’s NOT Love

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It Takes A Hot Fire to Forge Steel

Deeply committed to being a life-long learner, I was fond of the saying “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,”

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Are You Captious?

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Success: The Cliffs Notes Version

This is as concise as I know how to make it: 1. Set Goals: You GOTTA set goals. If you don’t have

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Beware The Invisible Gorilla

The world we see is not the only world that exists. We tend to see what we expect to see; remember things

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Where Does the Baton Get Dropped?

In relay races, if the baton is dropped, it is almost always dropped at the handoff. If a relay race is a