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Jack Welch: Behaviors that Kill Careers, Annotated by NSC (Bold Italics)
Complacency — you’ve stopped growing. Deep commitment to continuous, lifelong learning is a MUST if you wish develop yourself, professionally and personally, to the max.…
January 8, 2015
No “One Size Fits All” Rule Exists to Substitute for Critical Thinking Skills
My business is real estate, the ownership and management of apartments. At the highest conceptual level, the business is about creating value in the hearts…
December 30, 2014
Are You a Waiter or a Grabber?
In the famous Marshmallow Test, 4 year olds were given the choice of instant gratification via immediate consumption of a marshmallow or waiting 15 minutes and…
December 9, 2014
Do You Suffer From Vergaderziekte?
Vergaderziekte is a Dutch word meaning “meeting sickness”. It is estimated businesses waste an average of 20% of their payroll on bad meetings, the equivalent to sending…
December 4, 2014
Why Affirmations Work
Affirmations work because properly done (present tense, positive, personalized), they bolster our self- concept— the collection of beliefs we hold about ourselves. Affirmations also can…
December 2, 2014
Count Your Blessings: Make it Truly a Day of Thanksgiving
Want to cheer yourself up? Find energy on even the darkest days? Count your blessings! Enumerate all the things you have to be thankful for,…
November 26, 2014
When Egos Overwhelms Mission
First Look Media had a clear mission: hold the powerful accountable. Backed by Pierre M. Omidyar – billionaire founder of eBay, it was and is a noble…
November 11, 2014
Thinking is a Skill: The Acquisition and Use of Critical Thinking Skills Turbo Charges Success
Simply because they have thoughts (i.e. words form) in their heads, most folks think they know how to think. But if you define thinking as…
November 6, 2014
When “Circling the Wagons” Makes Things Worse
I am proud to be a lawyer, a member of the Florida Bar. Yet I’ve noticed a tendency in my profession to defend any member…
October 16, 2014
The Seven Habits of Highly INEFFECTIVE People
As always, I share what I most want/need to learn. Sometimes it clarifies things to look at what we SHOULDN”T do; making it easier to…
October 14, 2014
Life Changing Thoughts
“Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I CAN.” – Michael Jordan “Sometimes the biggest problem is in your…
October 9, 2014