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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
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
Attitude Is the Edge
Attitude is NOT everything. I’m not fond of the sayings “Attitude is Everything,” or even “Your Attitude Determines your Altitude.” Why? Because they take a…
October 8, 2010
Micro-Victories
There is very little difference between people, but that little difference makes a BIG difference, especially compounded over time. The secrets of life-long success are…
October 4, 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
In Praise of Humble Beginnings
Scottie Pippen, a seven-time NBA All Star and six-time World Champion with the Chicago Bulls, was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in August…
September 27, 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
“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
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