by speakwellpartners | Uncategorized
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...
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I went to a workshop several years ago led by an “award-winning” comedian. I remember that his topic was about how to use humor in the workplace, and that his audience WIIFM (what’s in it for me) was that every one of us works with a fun-sucker – that person whose...
by speakwellpartners | Uncategorized
You do not have to read the papers to know that things are bad at the U.S. Post Office. Lines are ridiculously long. The one postal clerk at the service desk is trying desperately to ignore the line of fuming customers. I have been to three different post offices in...
