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The Joys of Radical Acceptance
Everyone wants to change the world, no one wants to change themselves. Truer still, we want others to change (our partner, our kids, our boss).…
October 4, 2012
Successful Failure
A successful failure is one that is not fatal or catastrophic, from which comes a material or equivalent learning experience. Successful failures are errors or…
September 13, 2012
Meet Like a CEO: The Higher You Go, The Shorter the Meeting
On Sundays, The New York Times runs a series called “The Corner Office,” fascinating weekly interviews with CEOs of small- and mid-sized companies. While each…
August 16, 2012
Under-Indulgence
Which tastes better? The first bite of that huge piece of mouth-watering chocolate cake or the last? Most say the first and by the last,…
August 14, 2012
Using Tiger Woods’s Clubs Every Day of Your Life
Step on to the putting green with me. I hand you a putter and I tell you it had once been used by golfing great…
August 9, 2012
In Memorium, Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey, Herald of Good Habits, Dies at 79 By DOUGLAS MARTIN As appeared in The New York Times, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Stephen…
July 20, 2012
Opportunity Meetings
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. “All one can hope to get by solving a problem is to restore normality. All…
July 3, 2012
How to Get Ahead in Business
These quotations are taken from a May 18, 2012, Wall Street Journal article by John Bussey, “How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice from Female CEOs,”…
June 21, 2012
How to Earn Your Boss’s Respect
Easy! 1. Proactively ‘fess up to material mistakes, significant errors, and missed targets. 2. Take full responsibility for solving challenges. Fully live up to this…
June 14, 2012
Muda, Mura, Muri
Muda, Mura, and Muri are three Japanese words representing core focuses in the Toyota Way of eliminating waste and inefficiency and increasing profitability. MUDA –…
May 22, 2012
Wantology
Wantology is a process for clarifying what we REALLY want rather than what we think we want. Most of us do not put a lot…
May 17, 2012