Ethics is No Match for Adrenaline - The Neurochemistry of Business as Usual

One person’s value is another person’s ROI.

What does this mean?

When you're a company your value is in how well your products and/or services serve your customer's and client's needs and wants; when you're an investor, like Vince Lombardi said about "winning," "ROI isn't everything, it's the only thing."

What fuels this seemingly insurmountable gap?

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What Caused the DC Shooter to Snap?

After feeling put down and pushed away long enough by the world, your mind can sometimes create voices telling you to get in and get even.

Well another tragic shooting and tragic loss of life that again seems so senseless.  As a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist I have tried my best to make sense of what, why and when causes Aaron Alexis and other shooters to snap.

This is a work in progress and I invite any and all to refute, dispute or refine what follows.

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What should Obama do when Congress says, "No" regarding Syria

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing - Edmund Burke

Given President Obama taking his case for action to the world and Congress against Syria in response to their use of chemical weapons the above quote might be amended to say, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people become so war weary that they do nothing."

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Obama and Putin - "They don't see the sky"

You can't solve a tranformational problem with a transactional solution. 

What follows (and I can't attest with certainty to whether the pictures are in the correct order) is what happens when two transactional warriors meet.

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Bottom Line Secrets - Shrewd Hiring Tips

Works Well for All Businesses 

reprinted from, June 1, 1999, Bottom Line Secrets

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Why we'd rather talk than listen

Years ago I was hiking with two close friends and when we finally got back to our cars I said to my friends, "Did you notice that the first half of our walk took much longer than our return to the parking lot?" One of my friends with a wry sense of humor looked at me and smiled, "That's because you didn't stop talking on the way back!"

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Are you a blessing?

I have often suggested my executive coaching clients might do well to think of themselves as role models to others. I say this because they ARE role models, regardless of whether they see themselves in that light. When they are confronted with a challenge, I ask them, "what would YOUR role model do?"...referring to that person they most admire and who helped instill their values. When they answer me, I generally say, "Why not do that?”.

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How to Leverage Your Accomplishments - The DNA of Success

The problem for many people in their career is that they can sometimes come up with a dream job, have the correct mindset and skill set for it and then go to the right person hiring for that position, but then be told, “No.”

How come? What’s missing?

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