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Tuesday
Nov262013

Stuff Your Turkey With Giving Thanks

http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Thanksgiving-Dinner-2013.jpgWhy settle for giving a "thank you" when you can give a POWER THANK YOU*?

Make giving thanks the center piece of your Thanksgiving by having each person give a Power Thank You. It has 3 parts:

Part 1: Thank someone for something specific they did for you (it can also be something they refrained from doing that would have hurt you).

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Saturday
Nov232013

Entrepreneur vs. Homemaker - Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Entrepreneur Spouse: What’s wrong now?

Homemaker Spouse: Nothing.

ES: Why are you in such a sh-ty mood?

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Tuesday
Nov122013

Human Cooling, Global Warming and Childhood Obesity

http://wellness.nysbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Obesity-in-Children-childhood-obesity-problems.jpgBring back that lovin' feeling! - The Righteous Brothers

Are we getting even with an unloving world by taking from Mother Nature and then eating poorly?

Tell me I'm wrong about these twenty two observations:

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Saturday
Nov092013

Making Affordable Care Doable

Preventing Obama’s Bay of Pigs – Part 1 - From Resistant to Doing to Listening

JFK: What did we do wrong? How did we screw up?
Eisenhower: What you wanted to do wasn’t wrong, but you didn’t have a process.

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Friday
Nov012013

From Suicidal to a "Killer" Idea

http://www.bigideaswilmington.com/Content/Images/heading-big-ideas.pngThis is a work in progress.

First check out this article: LA Times: A Breakthrough Moment for Us Both

I’ve been trying to figure out that episode for thirty years so that not only could I repeat it, but so others could too. Along the way to deconstructing it, I not only discovered what happened that got through to this patient, I also discovered the components of what any idea needs to be a big idea.

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Wednesday
Oct302013

Verify, Then Hire

http://www.forcounsel.com/products/2146.jpgI am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people.  At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

- Larry Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell and former CEO of Allied Signal

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Tuesday
Oct292013

Fortune Growth Summit 2013 - 5 Qualities of an Influential Leader

http://upkesgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/logo-300x112.pngDo you agree with this? If not, what would you change? what would you add?

 

  1. Wisdom
  2. Judgment
  3. Integrity
  4. Character
  5. Courage

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Sunday
Oct272013

The Innovation Checklist - Don't Leave R & D Without It

INNOVATION = In + Ovation

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