Archive for the 'Values' Category

The New Year 2012

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

  “Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look on the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory. Let us cultivate sunniness, resist sourness. We can better wrestle with difficulties, obstacles, problems, in a spirit of [...]

How We Learn to Lead Without Integrity

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Let’s assume that Bloomberg (the publishers of Businessweek) understand their target audience. Let’s also assume that their target audience are the executives and leaders of our corporations, academia, healthcare and political institutions. In other words, these are the people who lead and guide and are the custodians of our society. A recent article in two [...]

Loyalty not Lock-in

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

I’ve often wondered why my wireless provider needs to put handcuffs on me in order to provide the services I need. It’s taken me a while, and a lot of insufferable service and interactions, but I’ve finally figured out the reason. If you provide†services that are so bad that customers would defect at their earliest [...]

The Power of Your Past

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

All my friends seem to be launching new books at the same time!†John P. Schuster launches his†timely and profound new book called The Power of Your Past: The Art of Recalling, Reclaiming, and Recasting on April 13th. In this new work, John systematically demonstrates that our pasts are our greatest and most accessible resource for [...]

The MAP: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life

Monday, January 24th, 2011

I have known Colette Baron Reid for more than 20 years and in that time I have seen her grow into a formidable leader in the human potential movement.† She has an amazing gift of perception and she is an outstanding coach. Today, she launches her new book The MAP: Finding the Magic and Meaning [...]