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Always Assume Postive Intent
Assuming positive intent means that you consciously chose to assume that the people you work with have good intentions, that they are operating to the…
June 6, 2008
Irrational Fears?
I have made a life-long study of risk and people’s perceptions of risk and their reactions to it. After all, the El Dorado of investment…
June 4, 2008
Birds of a Feather
Role models and group norms are powerful, but perhaps we have never realized how incredibly powerful they can be. A recent study by Dr. Nicholas…
June 3, 2008
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…
May 23, 2008
You can’t get enough of what you don’t need
“You can’t get enough of what you don’t need.” You may think you need it, but do you really? Is it what you really are…
May 15, 2008
30 Methods of Influence
Listed here are Thirty Methods of Influence from Stephen R. Covey’s “Principle-Centered Leadership,” (Simon & Schuster, pp. 119-128). I could easily write a blog on…
April 28, 2008
The Golden Opportunity You Are Seeking…
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, It is not in luck or chance, Or the help…
April 16, 2008
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die
In 1969, Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying” and popularized the concept of the grief cycle: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally…
April 15, 2008
Never Major in Minor Things
The New York Times recently reported “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the publicly traded newspaper…
April 14, 2008
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…
April 4, 2008
The Power of Letting Go
Sometimes we sabotage ourselves by not letting go of things that we should. We hold onto patterns or emotions or habits or thoughts long after…
March 28, 2008