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Yelling Ain’t Selling (or leading)

If you go to someone’s house, knock on the door and they refuse your offer, yelling and calling them names is not likely to achieve the results you desire. It may rationalize (in your mind) why that person rejected what you were selling, but you are wrong about...

Accenture

Back in the late ’80s, I worked for Accenture. They weren’t called Accenture then, they were the consulting arm of Arthur Andersen. Right as I started, they were forming a separate partnership called Andersen Consulting, then they fully separated and...

What does that mean?

You may have noticed I like to look up the definition of words. Maybe it goes back to the 1970s when my family had a Reader’s Digest subscription (did every family?). Reader’s Digest had a regular feature called “It Pays to Increase Your...

Who do you think I got that from?

I’ve been hearing that question a lot lately. And it’s not so much a question as a statement. With two college students home for a short time and a third in high school, my children don’t take comments from us without making a comment in return....

Gone Fishin’

Recently,  I went to Wyoming on a fly fishing trip. The last time I went fly fishing before that was probably when I was 15 or 16 on the little lake I grew up on. Ok. it was more a pond than a lake, but we always called it a lake. Delusions of grandeur, I suppose....

Outlast

Outlast is the third tenet of Survivor and in the end, it is the one that matters most. Cuz if you don’t outlast…, well that’s self-explanatory. As a contestant, you outwit and outplay so that you can outlast everyone else and win the game. At the...
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