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Pop-Cap: Illusions of Substance
Every day it seems we are bombarded with news of some new psychological scientific study revealing some fascinating new factoid about human nature. Perhaps a…
May 28, 2010
The Grass Is Always Greener
Oh, we humans! We are soooooo predictably irrational. We keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. It would be funny if…
May 25, 2010
10 Ways to Live to 100
One of my personal goals is to live to be 100 AND to be healthy and happy the whole way. I don’t want to just…
May 19, 2010
Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts: “Rethinking the MBA”
“Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads” (by Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen; Harvard Business Press) is an examination of…
May 14, 2010
5 Things You Cannot Change
1. Everything changes and ends Nothing lasts forever, every beginning is the start of an end. Relationships end, people die. Seasons turn, things change. Get…
May 5, 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
The Power of Personal Myth
The power of myth is the power of metaphor and poetry to capture the imagination, to inspire us to greatness. Mythical characters are simply archetypes…
April 14, 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