We’re all familiar with polarizing politics: splitting complex issues into polar opposite views so that we, the attention-deficit disordered American public, can sleep securely in the knowledge that our side is right; therefore, the other side must be wrong, wrong, wrong. But the black and white thinking that can.
[Read More]After a decade of working with CEOs, sales people, managers and individuals, I can promise you there’s no difference between an in-law squabble and the sales vs. accounting turf war.
The subject matter might be different, but the dynamics of the argument are exactly the same. Both sides think they’re.
[Read More]We’ve all been told not to bring our emotions to the work. But the idea that feelings don’t belong in the office is one of the biggest myths in business today. If you want passionate customers, excited employees and motivated managers, how are you going create them if you.
[Read More]In an ideal circumstance a child is raised to believe that they are incredibly special, but no more special than anyone else. This single line forever changed the way I viewed my role.
[Read More]Be it business, politics or relationships, either/or thinking is the bane of human existence. It dumbs down pretty much everything. Whether it’s an interdepartmental turf war or an argument with your spouse about the best way to load a dishwasher, the moment we descend into an either/or, I’m-right-so-you-must-be-wrong mindset,.
[Read More]Leave life to the Pollyannas, and they’ll skip us off the edge of a cliff, clutching a copy of “The Secret” to their chest, passionately chanting, “I believe I can fly, I believe I can fly.”
If only all the Eeyores of the world would start thinking more positively, we.
[Read More]Realizing that he had the rapt attention of everyone in the room my brother paused for dramatic effect and eloquently issued his one-word proclamation: “Grace.” Thus revealing to the entire crowd of assembled relatives that my parents were heathen slackers who failed to provide their children with even the.
[Read More]Contrary to what the polarizing politicians (or your own ego) may tell you, validating another person’s truth doesn’t make you weaker; it makes you stronger.
[Read More]Contrary to what the polarizing politicians (or your own ego) may tell you, validating another person’s truth doesn’t make you weaker; it makes you stronger.
[Read More]After talking with literally thousands of women, especially mothers, I can tell you – every time a woman has to badger a man to become more engaged, a little piece of her heart breaks.
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