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Dealing with Business Risk

Real estate development (versus acquisition of existing rental communities) is a major part of what I do. There is out there the

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Asking Effective Questions

Not all questions are created equal. An effective question is one that is – Open ended (difficult to answer yes or no),

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“O would some power the gift to give us, to see ourselves as others see us!”

“…O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free

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Reframing

Everything we observe or experience comes with a “frame,” a perspective, a point of view, a history of past experiences that outline

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

I discovered Dale Carnegie’s classic, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” in my early twenties. I had long since vowed to

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Big Rocks

Big rocks is a time management technique of always scheduling the most important things first. Big rocks are the things that absolutely

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Real Magic

A fellow by the name of Wayne Dyer once wrote a book called “Real Magic.” Actually Wayne Dyer has written many books,

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Cold Stoves: Learning the right lesson

It is said that a cat, once burned on a hot stove, never sits on a hot stove again. But the cat

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Plane to Las Vegas…

Las Vegas can be a nice place to visit. But not if your plane ticket was to Los Angeles. On occasion, some

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“Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in.”

When I was building my organization, I had a lot of young people working for me who had tremendous potential but were

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Ethos, Pathos, Logos

In 350 B.C., in “On Rhetoric,” Aristotle described three categories of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos, Greek for character, refers to

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Small Secrets

I find that many people subscribe to some version of the “big secret” theory of life, also known by its variants the