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Always Assume Postive Intent

Assuming positive intent means that you consciously chose to assume that the people you work with have good intentions, that they are

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Groupthink

Groupthink is when everyone in a group thinks alike, and consensus is valued more than independent or creative thinking. Groupthink is a

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Irrational Fears?

I have made a life-long study of risk and people’s perceptions of risk and their reactions to it. After all, the El

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Birds of a Feather

Role models and group norms are powerful, but perhaps we have never realized how incredibly powerful they can be. A recent study

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Emotion is Energy in Motion

Emotion can be thought of as “energy in motion.” To change your mood, MOVE! Or change your circumstances! The other day I

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Make it a game

We often know what we should do. But sometimes we are challenged to get ourselves to do as well as we know.

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Everywhere you go, there you are.

“Everywhere you go, there you are” means to me that change must ultimately come from within. I used to think that if

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“I Intend To…”

Effective delegation, levels of empowerment, the limits of authority. All topics worthy of entire books, much less a single blog. So I’m

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Memorial Day: Are We Worthy?

On this Memorial Day, it behooves us to remember the long line of men and women who have died that we may

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Beware “Competitive Arousal”

For a staid business publication, the phrase sounds much too…exotic? But there it was, competitive arousal, in the first paragraph of a

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If you squeeze an orange, you don’t get lemon juice

Crisis does not so much create character as it reveals character. Under stress our facade often cracks and our true selves are

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The Secret of Success is No Secret

Toyota recently surpassed General Motors in the number of cars sold in the United States. Toyota enjoys a hard-won and long-held reputation