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What’s the difference between sharing something you know with 3 people or 300? What is it about standing in front of a larger group that strikes fear into our hearts? I did some unscientific research (surveyed 12 friends) and confirmed my hunch… it’s the fear of not meeting expectations. We all want to be perceived…
“Look me in the eye and tell me you did not hit your brother!” Any parent knows that the eyes are the ultimate lie detector. They are the mirror to the soul, the barometer of emotion and the great revealer of attention deficit. Likewise, if you want to show someone your passion, confidence or sincerity,…
I know what you’re thinking; the business world does not have enough acronyms. So allow me to propose one more for the lexicon. When you hear the word TEAM, it could easily stand for Tyranny, Entropy, Anarchy & Mass confusion. Lots of teams start out with best intentions, but end up devolving and dissolving into these non-productive…
I was paddling like crazy and getting nowhere. Lying face down on my 6 foot surfboard, smelling the bubblegum flavored board wax, I was trying to ride a wave into the Huntington Beach beach. Learning to surf was one of the first things I wanted to do when I moved from Indiana to California, but it…
When is the last time you heard the phrase “Hey, it’s nothing personal, it’s just business”? Translation… “Hey, I know I just screwed you over but you should not be mad at me because it’s widely accepted that you don’t have to treat people as human beings in a business environment. So don’t make me…
Multi-tasking is not a crime. For knowledge workers today, it is a survival skill. If you can’t manage and filter streams of data coming at you from multiple synchronous and asynchronous channels, you are doomed to drift aimlessly at sea. The ability to keep swimming in a somewhat forward direction requires tremendous effort, and the…
For a DJ, the worst possible disaster is dead air, the agonizing moments of silence when you should be filling the airtime with words or music and there is just nothing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a technical glitch or human error, you can almost feel the impatient audience “tuning out” with each second that goes by. They’re…
Just got challenged by my friend and co-worker to “write a blog post on that.” This challenge came right after I asked him “Got everything you need?” Now that I think about it, that really is an impossible, rhetorical question to answer. No one EVER has ALL of their needs met at any given time,…
“You’re aaaallll sinners! Repent before it’s too late!!” I turned to see where the voice was coming from. I was late for my freshman psychology lecture, but I had to see what was going on. There in the middle of the grass mall was a large circle of 50 students with a skimmer straw hat…
Social media allows anyone to connect directly to authors and thought leaders and have unfiltered conversations that were just not possible in the past. I just had a lunchtime exchange on Facebook with Larry Winget, author of the upcoming book “No Time for Tact.” A self-described pitbull of personal development, Larry’s in-your-face, direct style can…