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Happy Labor Day Weekend!

View Comments September 4, 2010

Hope you’re having a GREAT weekend!

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From financial advice by a Gen-Y’er to Seniors on Twitter…

View Comments August 28, 2010

Let me run two events from today — seemingly disconnected – by you, and see if you reach a similar conclusion. My Friday morning started with coffee at Starbucks with Pete Dunn — better known as “Pete the Planner.” We’ve been connecting on Social Media, but had never met in person. Pete’s a really terrific [...]

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The Wizard…

View Comments June 4, 2010

The meeting was about to begin in Anaheim, and I was extraordinarily nervous. Sure, I’m usually dealing with “performance anxiety” before every speech, but this situation was even more dramatic. For some unbelievable reason, the organization I was addressing decided they wanted two keynote speakers during the same session. They had selected me…and legendary UCLA [...]

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A walk in the woods…

View Comments May 4, 2010

Since my wife signed me up to walk a half-marathon with her in seventeen days (but, who’s counting?) — along with my desire to get in better shape — I’m walking every morning. Usually about five miles…sometimes more, sometimes less. I’m very fortunate to have a beautiful path to walk…friendly neighborhood, through a protected wetlands, [...]

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A real guru…

March 10, 2010

With all of the discussion here lately about “gurus,” it was a true pleasure to meet a REAL one today. He stood in front of hundreds of people and announced that “consistency” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. “I wouldn’t tolerate mere consistency,” he proclaimed. “Some will consistently underperform. Some will consistently create problems [...]

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Spring IS coming…

February 22, 2010

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What, exactly, is a “mistake”?

View Comments February 19, 2010

In a little less than an hour from the time I’m writing this, Tiger Woods will make his “apology speech.” And, while I obviously do not know what will be said, there’s a darn good example of what he SHOULD deliver at CNN from John Kador, author of the book, “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building [...]

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It’s NOT about the glass…

View Comments October 1, 2009

You have heard the ancient question a million times and more: “Do you look at the glass as half-full or half-empty?” And while the question purports to be a kind of litmus test on whether you are an optimist or pessimist, it occurs to me that we really shouldn’t be examining the glass at all. [...]

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