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Cool Thoughts, Hot Thoughts
You are programming your mind, day in and day out, whether or not you realize it. The thoughts you CHOOSE to think powerfully affect the…
March 28, 2013
How Would Others Rate Your Social Competence?
What is your social competence score? Your social competence is closely related to your EQ, or your emotional quotient. EQ is your ability to a. …
March 5, 2013
Broken Windows: Why the Little Things Can Be Big Things
Some things set the tone for other things. Norms are established, announcing what is accepted or permitted and what is not. Some things can be…
January 31, 2013
Four Things To Look for in a Great Hire
The New York Times has a business section Sunday feature called “Corner Office,” where the CEO of a small- or mid-sized company is interviewed. I…
January 22, 2013
Five Power Thoughts for 2013
Every new year I pick five areas to concentrate on, five areas that I believe represent the highest leverage points of personal or professional growth.…
January 8, 2013
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 19, 2012
Choose or Lose
Americans revel in having choices. Fifty-five (permanent) flavors of Haagen-Daz ice cream, more models of cars than we can shake a stick at, overflowing grocery…
November 13, 2012
Avoid Defensive Bristling: It’s Not About Being Right but Getting it Right
You make a presentation to your boss’s boss. You’ve put a lot of hard work and late nights into the finished product. You’ve even done…
August 21, 2012
Under-Indulgence
Which tastes better? The first bite of that huge piece of mouth-watering chocolate cake or the last? Most say the first and by the last,…
August 14, 2012
An Absolute Fiend for Preparation
Rusty Hardin, 70, was the Houston attorney for baseball great Roger Clemens for Clemens’ 2012 acquittal on perjury charges for purported drug use. Rusty’s secret:…
August 2, 2012
First IQ, Then EQ, and Now PQ
IQ, or Intelligence Quotient, measures our basic mathematical and verbal intelligence. EQ, or Emotional Quotient, measures our emotional awareness, both of ourselves and others, as…
July 24, 2012