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Who Do You Think You Are?
“Who do you think you are?” is an idiom, an expression, a rhetorical question that is often used to confront someone we believe has shown…
February 7, 2011Can You Summon Your Talent at Will?
In the movie, “Devil’s Advocate,” Al Pacino is the devil in human form attempting to tempt Keanu Reeves, both of whom play attorneys. Pacino interviews…
February 3, 2011Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable
I have a button that says “Spending my life in Plan B.” I think most of us have spent a lot of our lives in…
January 27, 2011Don’t Do It Yourself
So I’m the quintessential maverick, the self-starting entrepreneur, the guy always trotting off on the path less traveled (heck, there is less traffic), the classic…
January 19, 2011“I am the one I’ve been waiting for…”
Every now and again I find that I’m waiting for something or someone to come along and resolve something or make something happen. This desire…
January 13, 2011Creating Value vs. Transferring Value
As a business person it is my goal to create value. Value is created when the whole is more than the sum of the parts,…
January 6, 2011No ANTs at the Picnic, Please
ANTs are those Automatic Negative Thoughts that we so often allow to run in the background of our minds. ANTs are the output of our…
January 5, 2011Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
Third in a series of blog posts urging, begging, pleading with you to turbo-charge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year! I think…
December 29, 2010Wisdom on the Fly
I find quotations valuable because they can encapsulate wisdom. Life’s challenge is to DO as well as we KNOW; in the critical moment of decision…
December 20, 2010Lean and Hungry
Disque D. Deane passed away November 8, 2010, at age 89. Deane, a shrewd real estate investor who once controlled the GM Building on New…
December 6, 2010R-E-S-P-E-C-T
A recent Business Week article focused on the lack of etiquette skills of the millennials currently graduating from college: “They’ve grown up with this Web…
November 19, 2010