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Time to START
Time to start what? Time to start thinking about your roles and goals for the coming year. It is mere days until the New Year.…
December 20, 2011
It’s the System, Silly
Sufficient credit often is not given for the supporting system in the success or failure of a business or enterprise. A recent case is the…
December 15, 2011
100,000 Americans Die…
100,000 Americans die each year from hospital-acquired infections, many passed on by hospital workers from sinks and hand sanitizer dispensers inside and outside patient rooms.…
December 13, 2011
They Had No Right to Win
“They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war…even against the greatest of odds,…
December 8, 2011
After-Action Report
How to maximize learning from an experience? How to wring out every little bit of knowledge possible of every significant situation or major event? Too…
December 6, 2011
Not My Job vs. 360-Degree Awareness
Every organization has its weaknesses, known failure paths where danger lurks and breakdowns tend to happen. If you have any knowledge of human frailties, if…
December 1, 2011
It’s the Mind That Matters
“Physically, there is not much difference between No. 78 in the world and Nos. 2, 3, 1, and 5,” said Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked men’s…
November 3, 2011
Hard Work Required
“I think he finally got the message that he’s got a lot of talent and he has a lot of ability but without the work,…
October 25, 2011
Unconscious Living
Ran across a golf book recently called “Unconscious Putting,” by Dave Stockton with Rudy Matthew. Its thesis is that while the long game in golf…
October 20, 2011
On “Willpower: The Greatest Human Strength,” by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
Science has turned its attention of late to the study of willpower, and it should be no surprise that research has shown that self-control is…
October 11, 2011
A Commander’s Creed: Netanyahu and the Raid on Entebbe
On June 27, 1976, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Air France Flight 139 and flew it to Entebbe, Uganda. All non-Israeli passengers, except one French citizen, were…
September 2, 2011