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“Large Scale Waiting”

I’m reading Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” (sorry it took me so long to get to it, Oprah!) and learning how

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“Just Three Things”

How much data can people realistically absorb? Particularly in a meeting or in a short time? There is a reason phone numbers

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“The Joys of Frugality”

There it was, right on the cover of Parade magazine in my Sunday hometown newspaper. An article titled, “The Joys of Frugality.”

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The Most Important Variable

How long would you wait for a treat? Researchers put four-year-old children, one at a time, in a small room with a

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PopCap: “From Its Poorest Citizen”

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) At its best, being an elected official is a calling, a response to a sense of duty. There

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“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

We all have many roles we play in our lives. Two major roles of mine are businessperson and spiritual being. In one

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Four Human Needs

– Love and belonging: Have people in our lives we care about and who care about us – Power and recognition: Respect

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Our Actions Influence Our Feelings

Occasionally I hear people say, “I can’t help it. I just feel that way.” It turns out, we have more control over

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Recency Bias

“Recency bias” is a tendency to give greater importance to more-recent events than to less-recent events. Recency bias is just another way

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PopCap: Excusitis

(A Populist Capitalist Blog) Excusitis is the unwillingness to accept responsibility for our actions and their consequences, either individually (the dog ate

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You can’t lose what you never had

A Team Member spoke regretfully to me the other day: She was negotiating to sell a house, going back and forth with

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Musings on Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership

Harvard Business Review’s September 2008 issue ran an article, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” by Daniel Goleman. The emphasis of