Beyond food and shelter, people of all ages have two core emotional needs: connection and meaning. We want close personal relationships while we’re on this planet, and we want to make a contribution that outlasts our stay on it. Our deepest desire is to make a difference, and our.
[Read More]I’m the worst waterskier in my family. My younger brother whips back and forth like a pro, hitting the outside buoys on the slalom course and leaning sideway until he’s practically parallel to the water. My Dad has been a hot shot skier since he was 8. When I.
[Read More]Why do people fail? Is it because they’re lazy or incompetent? Perhaps the Universe conspires against us sometimes. We tend to think of failure as catastrophic. It’s a big scary horrible thing to be avoided at all cost. But the truth is – Failure is the ambitious person’s constant.
[Read More]Have you ever heard someone say, “I should write a book?” Perhaps you’ve said it yourself. I believe everyone has a book in them. As an author, people often approach me with the “everyone says I should write a book” line. They then proceed to either tell me their.
[Read More]It’s always easier to judge the past than the present. The problem is we tend to judge people by looking backwards without considering how things looked from their vantage point at the time. It’s easy for us to say that investing in a buggy whip company is a terrible.
[Read More]I confess — I’m a resolution maker. I’ve found that I’m significantly more successful if I stick to just one realistic resolution. Case in point, “I’m going all organic” in 2003 was a total bust. I was back to Quik Trip corn dogs by mid January. I’ve found the.
[Read More]Stan was excited about his presentation. His proposal was perfect. He was confident the senior leadership team would quickly buy into the brilliance of his plan. He was envisioning a fat promotion. Imagine his surprise when 5 minutes in, the CEO said, “I don’t think so, let’s move to.
[Read More]Are you sabotaging people without realizing it? We want the people around us to do their best, but sometimes, in our efforts to “help,” we wind up making them feel worse. I’ve watched well-intended bosses, parents and spouses unknowingly crush the very people they want to build up. Sometimes.
[Read More]Her name was Karen. She sold the same drug regime as every other rep in her company. Her geographic territory was a nondescript slice of interstates, strip malls, aging hospitals and understaffed, high stress, fake plant-adorned doctor’s offices, just like the other 450 reps in her organization. Yet year after.
[Read More]We tend to assume that arguments are bad. We’re wrong. The best ideas often come from arguing. Here are two examples: How fighting against a highway created a network of parks and bike trails. Back in the 1970s my mother led the fight against Route 66 in Arlington, Virginia..
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