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To Know and Not Do Is To Not Know
I sometimes lead a short personal leadership course for the incoming real estate grad students at the University of Florida. I often tell them the…
November 11, 2010
The Courage to Lead: I’m Still a Work in Progress, Always Will Be
For a long time I was reluctant to engage in certain forms of leadership. The straight business side, such as goal setting, planning, and directing…
November 2, 2010
Meditating on the Move
Meditation has widely been shown to reduce stress, clear the mind, relax the body. Meditation obviously has many health benefits, both mental and physical. But…
October 29, 2010
Frugality: Both Sexy and Smart?
Can frugality be sexy? Not according to a recent survey, which asked for a word association for a hypothetical blind date described as frugal. “Sexy”…
October 1, 2010
Taking the High Road
Both Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln are said to have kept journals. They used them as tools, recording their thoughts and aspirations, goals, progress, and…
September 29, 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
Beware “Competitive Arousal”
For a staid business publication, the phrase sounds much too…exotic? But there it was, competitive arousal, in the first paragraph of a May 2008 Harvard…
September 21, 2010
Three Kinds of People
One of the mental exercises that people seem to love is to break down the world into different kinds of people. In any organization, there…
September 7, 2010
“How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like,” by Paul Bloom
We assume we like things because they feel good and dislike others because they don’t feel good. In other words, pleasure is primarily a response…
August 30, 2010
Frugal Innovation
Frugal innovation is a recently-popularized term characterized by careful, insightful, and economical use of resources, a specific kind of innovation that takes great care to…
August 20, 2010
“As If Fear Never Entered His Mind”
“He played as if fear——of Roger Federer, of Centre Court——never entered his mind.” This is how a New York Times sports writer (July 3, 2010),…
August 13, 2010