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Saturday
Aug312013
Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, America, etc. - Who's the "hammer?" Who's the "nail?"
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 10:21AM 
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 10:21AM Thursday
Aug292013
Is Deming passe or was he ahead of his time?
Deb Boelkes Posted on Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 9:30AM 
Some of you who are familiar with W. Edwards Deming, the American Statistician, may think of him as the "Father of Total Quality Management (TQM)". While it's true....he taught "systems thinking" to Japanese automakers, I think Deming was really about heartfelt leadership.
Saturday
Aug172013
How Do You Grab People's Attention?
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 5:16PM 
In an attention challenged world, if you don't grab people's attention quickly, they'll tune out
Friday
Aug162013
Grokking Steve Jobs - Build an "Insanely Great" Business
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 at 9:27AM 
Their gap is your command
Last year like one of the multitude of enthusiastic readers of Walter Isaacson’s terrific book, I’ve been trying to grok Steve Jobs’ way of looking at the world so that my clients and I can benefit from it.
This is a work in progress but this is what I think Jobs recognized:
Friday
Aug162013
How to Deal With Distractions – Concentration Interruptus and “Pseudo ADD”
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 at 8:59AM 
When your thinking is interrupted by your brain,
you’ve got real ADD;
When it’s interrupted by the world,
you just have trouble saying, “No.”
Friday
Aug162013
Steve Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field"
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 at 8:51AM 
Steve Jobs did not have a "Reality Distortion Field," he had a "Distraction Eliminator Field."
Much has been written about Jobs creating what has been referred to as a Reality Distortion Field (RDF) that caused him to not only be incredibly convincing to others about whatever he wanted them to think but also to himself. It was that RDF that enabled him to see exquisitely clearly something the world needed and wanted that they didn't know they needed and wanted (see Grokking Steve Jobs).
Tuesday
Aug132013
Get to know some Heartfelt Leaders
Deb Boelkes Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 3:47PM 
If you haven't checked it out lately, be sure to click in on our Be Inspired section. You'll be blown away by some of the people who have been nominated as Heartfelt Leaders and who have shared their stories with us. Our latest video interview with Paul Spiegelman, Chief Culture Officer of Stericycle (a NASDAQ listed global services organization with 13,000 employees) and the Founder of BerylHealth and The Beryl Institute, has just been posted for your viewing pleasure. You'll see that Paul is one amazing Heartfelt Leader who really "gets it". It just might make your day to hear what he has to say. Enjoy and pay it forward!
Tuesday
Aug132013
"What made you smile today?"
Mark Goulston Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 11:06AM 
"Every day at least one thing makes you (and your children) smile."
- Harry Glazer
One of my close friends, attorney Harry Glazer, was telling me recently how when his kids are happy he's happy and when they're not, he's not. My wife's version of this is: "You're only as happy as your most unhappy child." I agree with both of them.