Eight year old Sam Baker was wondering about something, so he asked his parents, “How come our town doesn’t have a Christmas tree lit up for everyone in town to enjoy?” He reasoned that other nearby towns had trees, that they had a tree at the White House, and that he saw them light a
Over the past few weeks, I have read Habit: The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore by Neale Martin. As a business owner (and therefore a marketer), this book provides valuable lessons for me about how and why people buy – and as this book shows using great examples, stories and research, it isn’t always for the reasons
In this blog, I have shared quotations from William James, often called the father of American psychology, before (here is an example). Today, I share another one – this one, full of positive possibility. “Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds and above the storms, if you only let
Surrender? When you think about surrender, you don’t likely think of great leadership. People who surrender, lose, right? The dictionary tells us that surrender, as a verb, means things like: “to yield possession or power,” “to give (oneself) up,” “to give up, abandon or relinquish.” These are hardly the ideas we connect with leaders we
Today’s Resource Recommendation is Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level by Joel A. Garfinkle. The title of this book tells you clearly this is a career management book. The title promises that it contains ideas that will help you “take your career to the next level.” This book focuses on
If you believe, like I do, that we all have tremendous untapped potential, then today’s quotation begs an important question. A question that I will ask you below. “Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” – Fernando Flores, engineer and politician Questions to Ponder How do you personally define greatness?
Excuses . . . wear me out. Here are some examples from the workplace (though I could easily give you a longer list outside of work too): I can’t learn it that way (it’s not my learning style). I need to know this first, so until I know that I can’t . . . I can’t make it work because. . . No one will agree with me. I
Last Friday I posted a “Final Four” of learning quotations, and asked readers to vote on their favorite. Last night the Men’s national basketball champion was crowned, and this morning the winner of the Final Four of Learning will be announced. Right here, right now. In a very close race conducted via comments, emails
Would you like a way to get better ideas, faster? Would you like to nearly automatically tap into your subconscious brain to help you solve your vexing problems? Need a tool that would help your team think more clearly? What if I told you that tool was free, except for the five minutes of time you had to
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