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Today is a New Day…

“Today is a new day and I am a new Nathan, totally free to make new choices.” This is one of my

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Too Easy = Harder?

Princeton University psychologist Daniel Oppenheimer did a study where information was presented to two groups in two formats: One printed in small,

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Every Yes is a No

Most of us are limited in some respect, often by time, money, or energy. This is true for organizations as well as

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The Not So Sorry Sorry, or the Apology That is Not an Apology

All of us have received an insincere apology, one we doubted was authentic. Here are some thoughts on apologies. How to give

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Don’t Solve the Problem, Build the Problem Solver

This most definitely falls under the heading of sharing what I most want to learn. When you are good at problem-solving it

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To Know and Not Do Is To Not Know

I sometimes lead a short personal leadership course for the incoming real estate grad students at the University of Florida. I often

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Directing the Monkey Mind

Lee Kuan Yew was prime minister of Singapore from its founding in 1965 until 1990. As the father of modern-day Singapore, he

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Mental Muscles

About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I

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Conflict Avoidance: Passive—Aggressive Coping Mechanism

Conflict avoidance can be a major stumbling block in resolving ongoing problems in any relationship or organization. Awareness is the first step

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Waste Not, Want Not

Up to half the almost 600 billion pounds of food the United States produces each year goes to waste at a cost

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Hard Drives Out Soft

When I started out in the real estate ownership and management business, I decided there were three things I had to emphasize

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Star Tasks vs. Guardian Tasks: Harvard Business Review and Pirates

According to Hayagreeva Raoa’s guest column in the October 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), “What 17th-Century Pirates Can Teach Us