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Why is micromanaging so attractive? How do we stop it?
What trigger snaps you into details like a hound dog after a rabbit?
Wonder: A feeling caused by seeing something that is very surprising, beautiful, amazing…*
Last week with a group of Vistage CEOs and 100,000+ other folks, I watched over 600 hot air balloons rise with the sun over a
Employers coping with the minimum wage increase. How can they do it?
I’ve been asked a lot recently, what are other employers doing to cope with the minimum wage increase? In fact, some are pretty frustrated because
Does a higher minimum wage help?
Here is the long-term problem: wages in the US at the bottom to middle have stagnated or fallen in the last 30 years.* Most millennials
Are you using your EQ as much as your IQ?
Yesterday I read the following phrase: “I don’t know how you could possibly believe that this was an acceptable way for an adult to behave.”
Do I really need to get the Sunday N.Y. Times?
Last week I talked about exercising the muscles around ethics. This week let’s do a little tune-up around expenses. Yes, I can hear you….stop saying
Are our ethics slipping?
The arrest of fashion industry company owners and managers in downtown L.A. this week raises the question: as executives, as members of the community, as
Does humor work at work?
The recent passing of Joan Rivers so soon after Robin Williams had me thinking this week about humor. What makes something funny?
I am tired of being me today.
Does it ever happen to you that you get tired of struggling with the things you don’t do well?
Act like you will live to be 95!
Imagine that you will live to be 95 – that you know this with absolute certainty. What is the first thing you would do differently?
Are demographics the underlying rhythm of our lives?
How often do you pay attention to the beat under the songs you listen to? We may unconsciously tap our foot to the rhythm. Sometimes,
Want to be more productive? Go on vacation.
People say the most productive day in the year is the one just before you go on vacation. You fly around checking off tasks that
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