You Don’t Need to Know
From a very early age, we have been taught to get good at and to value knowing the answer. In the classroom, on tests, and …
Productivity Boost From NOT Improving Your Productivity System
A productivity system helps us capture, organize, and plan things to do. Whether we use an electronic or paper-based system, we want it to be …
When We Remember
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain And when we remember that we are …
Perfect Pricing (and Salaries)
We can set prices (for our salaries or for the products and services we sell) perfectly by following these two rules: Our clients (or employers) …
Nucleation
Just as a single fleck dropped into a supersaturated solution creates awesome results, it takes just a spark of optimism to turn everyone toward possibility, progress, and profound success. …
Practice
Ever wonder what it will take for our ship to come in, for us to be finally more calm, for things to start working right, …
They Set the Date
A great leadership adage goes, “If I tell you, I still own it. If you tell me, you own it.” If we as leaders say, …
Give Yourself These Important Gifts
Running around, overwhelmed, and (truth be told) only just keeping it together probably isn’t what we signed up for. But it is not necessary to be …
Seeing the Good
Listen to conversations on the street, through the media, at work, and even at home. Much of what we hear is complaint. And too much …
At Each Others’ Throats
For the most part, we can all agree about the symptoms of a problem (say, the volume of traffic at rush hour or a spike in complaints …