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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
No Slackers, Downers, or Jerks Need Apply
How nasty, incompetent, or lazy employees do damage far in excess of their number. Slacker: A person who shirks work or responsibility and withholds…
November 15, 2011
What Gets In Your Way?
Presuming – you know what you want in life – you’ve taken the time to think things through – come up with a “roles and…
November 8, 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
False Comfort: The Allure of Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
Any behavior that creates more problems than it solves is self sabotaging. Too often we yield to the temptation of a temporary relief only to…
October 27, 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
“The Happiness Equation”
Nick Powdthavee is an economist at England’s University of York. “The Happiness Equation” (247 pages) is his attempt to expound on the latest research on…
September 26, 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