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“It ain’t about you!!” is an often exaggerated tagline from Dr. Phil, but when you really think about it…it’s good advice. The world is a better place when we consider others before ourselves. My personal perspective got an adjustment last night, and it came in the form of a speech by a young man named…
I just got the sobering Social Security Statement that shows my lifetime history of work and how much I made each year; kind of like “This is Your Life” through a financial lens. A couple of very interesting data points jumped out at me… First, I made only $413 in the first year of my…
My teenage son was NOT hungry. That should have been our first warning sign. He complained about an upset stomach and the usual remedies did not help. Within an hour he was doubled over in pain and we could not figure out why. My wife Carol asked him again, “Are you SURE you didn’t eat something strange…
Originally published at Ideas in Motion. That’s not a typo in the title. I’m talking about the inane commentary that initially turned me off to Twitter. Why does anyone care if you blew out a tire and fell off your bike? Well, if you’re Lance Armstrong, there are lots of people who care. Some high…
Have you ever attended a formal meeting or special event and wondered “why all the rules?” There are so many traditions, customs and parliamentary procedures… there’s no way to keep track or live up to all of them. And you may think “why bother?” Why not just wing it? I’m sure you’ve had to sit…
We had an interesting presentation about influence at work recently. One of our executives led us through an exercise where each of us had to sell a “magic” pen to the person sitting next to us. It was a compressed timeframe and the pressure was on. Afterwards, she asked which person talked the most in…