harnessing activation energy

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Harnessing Activation Energy

In physics, activation energy is the initial spark to catalyze a reaction. In life, activation energy is the motivation it takes to

daily strokes of effort

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Daily Strokes of Effort

People are creatures of habit. How could we not be? Otherwise the myriad decisions required each day would overwhelm us. It is

the comma

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The Comma

Life is complex, business is challenging. If it were easy, it would already have been done a long time ago. The world

avoid defensive bristling

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Avoid Defensive Bristling: It’s Not About Being Right but Getting it Right

You make a presentation to your boss’s boss. You’ve put a lot of hard work and late nights into the finished product.

Apple Jobs

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Meet Like a CEO: The Higher You Go, The Shorter the Meeting

On Sundays, The New York Times runs a series called “The Corner Office,” fascinating weekly interviews with CEOs of small- and mid-sized

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Under-Indulgence

Which tastes better? The first bite of that huge piece of mouth-watering chocolate cake or the last? Most say the first and

using tiger woods clubs

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Using Tiger Woods’s Clubs Every Day of Your Life

Step on to the putting green with me. I hand you a putter and I tell you it had once been used

Rectangle 10

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Self-Handicapping

Self-handicapping is behavior that protects a person from being responsible for failure. Self-handicapping can be a form of self-sabotage: Some people may

fiend for preparation

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An Absolute Fiend for Preparation

Rusty Hardin, 70, was the Houston attorney for baseball great Roger Clemens for Clemens’ 2012 acquittal on perjury charges for purported drug

feedback fuel of champions

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Feedback: The Fuel of Champions

Warning: This is a “put on your big-boy pants” blog. Ahead are ego-challenging, non-sugar-coated statements. Many people are challenged to take feedback

tips to tame email

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Tips to Tame E-Mail

– Read and respond only to those messages directed to you. – If you are only copied, the message is informational only.

first IQ then EQ and now PQ

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First IQ, Then EQ, and Now PQ

IQ, or Intelligence Quotient, measures our basic mathematical and verbal intelligence. EQ, or Emotional Quotient, measures our emotional awareness, both of ourselves