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“The Long and Winding Road”
Steve Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since 2000 and by his own admission he is a “chop, chop, chop, chop, chop” (yes, that’s…
June 25, 2009
“The Power of a Positive No,” by William Ury
I know, “positive no” sounds like an oxymoron. But it is possible to deliver a no in a positive manner. A manner that affirms the…
June 18, 2009
Self Trust
I’ve been listening in the car to a CD of Stephen M. R. Covey’s book, “The Speed of Trust.” Its essence is that things work…
June 16, 2009
PopCap: “Teach Your Children Well”
“Which Movie Studios Will Cause the Most Youth to Start Smoking This Summer?” How do we, as a society, teach acceptable social norms? What collective…
June 5, 2009
The Pitfalls of Unbounded, Undisciplined Compassion
Often as a nation and as a community, we are unwilling to face the need to eat our spinach, to make REAL changes and, yes,…
June 2, 2009
“Endlessly Curious”
It is easy to say that life is a matter of how you look at it, that things turn out best for those who make…
May 26, 2009
“Just Three Things”
How much data can people realistically absorb? Particularly in a meeting or in a short time? There is a reason phone numbers are separated by…
May 20, 2009
PopCap: “From Its Poorest Citizen”
(A Populist Capitalist Blog) At its best, being an elected official is a calling, a response to a sense of duty. There is an acute…
May 15, 2009
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
We all have many roles we play in our lives. Two major roles of mine are businessperson and spiritual being. In one role I am…
May 14, 2009
Recency Bias
“Recency bias” is a tendency to give greater importance to more-recent events than to less-recent events. Recency bias is just another way of saying people…
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Musings on Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership
Harvard Business Review’s September 2008 issue ran an article, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” by Daniel Goleman. The emphasis of the article was…
May 6, 2009