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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 daily affirmations. It…
November 18, 2010
Never Major in Minor Things
The New York Times recently reported, “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the publicly traded newspaper…
October 19, 2010
The Wolf at the Door
What motivates? In the final analysis, pain and pleasure. We move away from pain, we move toward pleasure. There are as many permutations and ramifications…
October 11, 2010
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. Simple solution: Make…
September 28, 2010
Can Conflict Be a Good Thing?
Or put another way, can excessive politeness stifle problem solving? Can gentle civility, carried too far, keep ideas from being properly challenged? Sufficiently tested? Can…
September 20, 2010
Creating 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,…
August 31, 2010
Continuous Change: 1000%, 1% at a Time
The Collier Companies recently sent our entire team of six regional community managers (RCMs) to New Orleans for a National Apartment Association conference. RCMs typically…
July 6, 2010
EQ: The Beginning of Rapport and a Relationship
IQ primarily deals with math and verbal skills; vital and important, but in today’s increasingly interdependent world, where the fast-growing service sector increasing dominates and…
June 22, 2010
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
“’A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,’ Vinod Khosla laments to Larry Page (co-founder of Google). The two Silicon Valley luminaries are chatting one…
June 15, 2010
Finding the Gift
A friend recently went on a 13-day rafting and camping trip in the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, she experienced a rather bad sprain, her ankle swelling…
June 11, 2010
Everyday Leaders
It is the task of a leader to bring out the best in people. And, we ALL are leaders. We all are examples, role models,…
April 16, 2010