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Feedforward
Feedforward is in contrast to feedback. Feedback often focuses on what people have done wrong in the past. Thus it frequently engenders emotional resistance as…
October 27, 2010
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 never sits on…
October 26, 2010
Harriet Lerner’s “The Dance of Intimacy”
I began re-reading this old favorite the other day. “The Dance of Intimacy” deals with relationships and the patterns of distancing and pursuit (approach-avoidance behavior)…
October 21, 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
Thirty Methods: Overcoming Three Big Mistakes. Mistake #3: Assume That Good Example And Relationship Are Sufficient
“30 Methods of Influence” by Stephen R. Covey “In our attempts to influence others, we commonly make three mistakes, all related either to ignoring or…
October 7, 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
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 May 2008 Harvard…
September 21, 2010
Celebrating Everyday Heroes
You see them every day. You may not realize it, or stop to think about it, or pause to appreciate them, but you do see…
September 14, 2010
“The Secret Door To Success,” Florence Scovel Shinn
Sometimes that which we most urgently desire, we drive away and that which we most desperately fear, we attract. All of us have seen the…
September 8, 2010
100%/0%
100 percent/zero percent is shorthand for the concept that you should give your all without expectation. Give 100% and expect 0% in return. In high…
September 1, 2010