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Learning Your Learning Style
“It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.” — Chester Barnard Everyone has a learning style or a preferred way of…
October 12, 2010
Always Assume Positive Intent
Assuming positive intent means that you consciously choose to assume that the people you work with have good intentions, that they are operating to the…
October 5, 2010
Self-Stability: “The Key Thing”
Sheila Lirio Marcelo is the founder and chief executive of Care.com. Early in her career she had the foresight and personal courage to challenge herself…
September 24, 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
“Pleased But Not Satisfied”
“Pleased But Not Satisfied” is a self-published book by David L. Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican Energy, a major subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Sokol recently was…
September 13, 2010
Feet of Clay? It’s Okay!
People want certainty, they want security. They want to feel that someone really smart, really competent, really capable is in charge. They confuse competence with…
August 25, 2010
Fear: An Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
“The primary difference between an entrepreneur and a professional business manager, generally speaking, is one of attitude. The entrepreneur, especially when starting out, knows that…
August 24, 2010
Are You Willing to Change?
If you truly expect things to change in your life, then you must be willing to change your life. To get what you’ve never had…
August 16, 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
We Are Meant To Be Different
Emotional maturity, having a healthy self-concept, and fully accepting ourselves lie in releasing the opinions of others, not letting ourselves be negatively impacted by their…
August 4, 2010
We Are Just Dealing With Thoughts, and Thoughts Can Be Changed
What we experience inside our heads—our emotions and reactions—are just inner effects of outer events. The stories we choose to tell ourselves, the way we…
July 28, 2010