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This week, I am sharing two short articles that upend some fundamental assumptions about what drives excellent performance. 1. Be Nervous: This TED blog relates how speaker nerves fuel better, more passionate and more creative presentations....
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Are you familiar with the Red Car Syndrome? You buy a red car and then everywhere you look you see red cars? That’s what happened to me since I wrote last month’s post about Dana Carney’s research on how our physical stance determines the degree of confidence we...
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Ann Romney tells the story about helping her reluctant husband decide to enter the presidential election, saying, “Mitt, can you save this country?” To which, he apparently could only reply, “Yes”. And so on primary day in New Hampshire, we wait for the polls to...
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I tripped on one of those Most Awesome Business Books of 2011 lists that materialize in the month of December right along with inflatable Santas and those hideous LED lights. One of the entries on the list caught my eye. It’s called Consider: Harnessing the Power of...
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I stumbled on a blog in the Huffington Post this week. It was a spiritual column written by a Buddhist. That’s all I can remember and despite thirty minutes of online searching, I can NOT find it anywhere. I don’t even remember what most of the blog was about except...