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Is an A Really a B?
Grade inflation is back. After a big episode during the Vietnam war to protect students’ draft deferments, grade inflation re-emerged in force starting in 1986,…
May 10, 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
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
50 Ways to Leave Your Past
Want the “Wisdom of the Ages,” CliffsNotes version? “Secrets of Success” distilled? Sit back and relax because Tom Butler-Bowdon has done all the work for…
April 19, 2010
30 Methods of Influence: #8 Live the Law of Love
“30 Methods of Influence” by Stephen R. Covey 8. Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live…
April 15, 2010
The Importance of Being a Good Follower
Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Company’s president & CEO, arrived at Ford from Boeing three and a half years ago. An engineer by training, he brought…
April 9, 2010
A Driving Fear of Failure
“Early on in my career, I recognized that I was not always the smartest individual in the groups I worked in, but I had a…
April 7, 2010
Why Not Us?
Someone has to win. Someone will stand at the top of the podium and receive the gold medal. Why not us? Why not you? In…
April 2, 2010
Victim No More: Turning Weakness into Strengths
Temple Grandin, “easily the most famous female autistic woman in the world” (The Wall Street Journal, “Life Among the ‘Yakkity Yaks,’” February 20, 2010), also…
March 31, 2010
Not Happy Yet? Just Wait!
Recent research suggests that older Americans may be happier than younger ones, that the stereotype of youth as the best time of life is…
March 24, 2010