Last Friday, I featured a quotation from this great author. Today, another one from him. Why? Because it is important, because it connects to the one from last week, and because we all need to be reminded of it. “Effective people are not problem-minded; they are opportunity- minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” –

By Richard Farson According to Dictionary.com, paradox is defined as: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. a self-contradictory and false proposition. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion. I operate as a consultant

About 15 years ago, I started sending emails each weekday to a few colleagues and Customers. I called them Powerquotes, and they were simple – a quotation and some questions to ponder. I did that for many years – at the peak sending over 20,000 emails per day to those that asked for them. That

Over the years, I’ve watched as several presidents made critical, literally life and death decisions in different moments of crisis. Agree or disagree, those are the moments when the president earns his paycheck. As leaders, there is no escaping that we also must make lots of decisions. While ours won’t necessarily be as complex as

In many parts of life, timing is everything. That is certainly true for training. People may want and need training, but the timing has to fit their schedule, their development and their budget. Often times people don’t get the training they need, when they need it, because it isn’t available. We’ve been in the learning