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Innovation & Change

Free Webinar Series – Growing Your Small Business (without giving up your life) -Starts June 24

Please join me for a free webinar series:Growing Your Business (without giving up your life) Starting JUNE 24 We’ll cover: Networking – How to generate leads,  when you don’t have time to get out into the community Motivation- How to get your employees engaged, when you can’t afford raises.

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Why We're Weirded-Out by the "L Word"

People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod.  Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.

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Why We’re Weirded-Out by the “L Word”

People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it. We’ll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod.  Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One.

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Is Fast Food the New Smoking?

If you’re under thirty-five, you probably don’t remember the days when people smoked in meetings.  The image of a bunch of execs puffing away in a conference room seems like something out of an old movie. Your eyes start to water at the mere thought of it. Yet I.

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Undercover Boss Reveals More About the Boss than the Workers

What do employees say and do when their boss isn’t watching? Organizations say they want to know what goes on behind the scenes.  But more often than not, senior leaders, particularly those at the top of the corporate food chain, don’t spend enough time in the trenches to get an.

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The Mancession: The Numbers Reveal A New Normal

It’s 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and instead of a gaggle of mothers waiting outside the elementary school to walk the kiddies home, there’s a herd of dads in Bermuda shorts who look a little embarrassed to be there. It’s being called the Mancession. Men have lost three out.

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How To Get What You Want Without Alienating Others

“At a certain point it gets to be about me, right?” He was a seasoned professional who’d been in business for years, and when he asked me this question near the end of a workshop I was giving, I knew that he was struggling. In his way of thinking,.

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Self-Discipline: The Pain and Pleasure of Teaching Yourself To Do the Boring Stuff

I have a love-hate relationship with self-discipline. I love the results, but I hate the process. Discipline can be a loaded word. We tend to think of discipline in terms of punishment.  As in, you have to discipline children, or when you do something wrong, the boss takes disciplinary.

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Conflict: Great Catalyst for Creativity and Innovation

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Mary Kay did it when she combined selling and nurturing to create a cosmetics empire. Apple.

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Is Silencing Your Truth Noble, or Fearful?

You know who they are.  They’re the Type As who storm their way through life assuming that their opinion is the only one that counts. Whether they’re dominating the boardroom, the family dinner table or the church finance meeting, their truth, as they see it, takes precedent, and heaven.

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