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Noble Purpose Newsletter

Divorce: The Devil is in the Details

We all know them; you might even be one of them. They’re the bitter divorced people who five years later are still seething with anger at their ex-spouse. The question is, what causes the anger? The marriage, or the way they divorced? It’s ironic; people often divorce in the.

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Human Interaction: A Skill Nobody Ever Teaches You

What’s more important: knowledge, work habits or the way we interact with others? Recently, one of my clients was creating a project team. Several people volunteered, yet when they found out that Ms. So and So was going to be part of it, they quickly retracted their offers. The.

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Creating Systems for Success, Not to Impress

Can you give a great presentation if you have a messy office? Can you be a fabulous parent with laundry strewn all over the house? On the one hand, it might seem like you’re too busy doing your “job” to worry about little details like filing or cleaning out.

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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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Appreciating the Fragile Beauty of the Mundane

My neighbors just lost their 17-year-old daughter to cancer. She was diagnosed 13 months ago. Up until three weeks ago, she was responding well to the treatment, and everyone thought she was going to get better. Then a scan revealed that the cancer had returned with a vengeance, and.

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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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