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“When Ideas Have Sex”
“When ideas have sex” is science writer Matt Ridley’s provocative way of describing innovation in his new book, “The Rational Optimist.” Ridley’s hypothesis is that…
June 23, 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
“No Room for Failure, No Room for Laziness”
Julian is a 12 year old from Montana, Joy is a 15 year old from Texas. They share an unusual love, a rare desire: they…
June 14, 2010
Big Rocks
Big rocks is a time management technique of always scheduling the most important things first. Big rocks are the things that absolutely must happen, the…
June 8, 2010
10 Ways to Live to 100
One of my personal goals is to live to be 100 AND to be healthy and happy the whole way. I don’t want to just…
May 19, 2010
Expect Success, Plan for Failure
The more complex a system or situation, the more true this phrase is. I am a firm believer in having backups within backups for all…
May 18, 2010
Birthday
Yesterday, May 11th, was my birthday, the date of my birth. I think of birthdays as a great time to reflect, as accountability checkpoints. What…
May 12, 2010
You Can’t Win If You Don’t Play
You can’t win the game sitting on the bench. It’s hard to impact results standing on the sidelines. You have to get involved. You have…
May 4, 2010
The 5 A’s We All Need
Primates are unusual among mammals. In times of danger or crisis, most mammals run somewhere. We humans tend to run to someone. We need each…
May 3, 2010
Entrepreneur’s Manifesto
The bright side of economic downturns is that they force everyone to examine all aspects of their lives, question protected interests and make hard choices,…
April 28, 2010
The Paradox of the Happy Peasant
Miserable millionaires? Happy poor? The phrases seem backwards, almost an affront to our deep-seated but often unspoken belief in the power of prosperity to create…
April 21, 2010