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Rationalize = Rational Lies
Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing but rational lies…
April 21, 2008
You Can’t Make Money by Going Broke—if it ain’t accretive to earnings, why do it?
It may sound silly but it is true and we all know it: You can’t make money by going broke. Yet what we say we…
October 2, 2012
Choosing Your Reality
There is a story about a man piloting a small boat in an early morning deep fog on a large lake nestled in the forests…
December 5, 2008
Rationalize = Rational Lies
Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing but rational lies…
February 1, 2011
It’s RESULTS That Count
A recent New York Times article (see below) dealt with college students’ expectations that they should be rewarded with grades based upon their effort, rather…
March 12, 2009
Project Management: The Proper Place for Pessimism
While we might not think of it as such, we are all “Project Managers” at some point in our lives. We all have things we…
May 31, 2022
The Inevitability of Adversity…and the Benefits Thereof
I work in multifamily real estate, university housing to be exact. Real estate, along with our entire economy, has fallen on pretty hard times. We…
August 24, 2009
Impossible is Only in Your Mind
To think a thing impossible is to make it so. On a recent November weekend, four Top 10 football teams fell to underdogs, 2 of…
November 29, 2011
The Power of Upstream Thinking
You are walking by the side of a river when you hear screams of distress: a child is drowning. You plunge into the water and…
December 10, 2020Creating a Company Culture
I realized a long time ago that every company had its own unique culture. I wanted to have a special company, where people enjoyed working,…
October 26, 2007