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Posts Tagged ‘ear’

Bernie Madoff’s Exciting, New Opportunities!

In the next few years, Bernie will be enjoying a simpler life. Exercise. Reading. Watching occasional television. He will probably even make a few friends. He will give up the massive weight of the past transgressions he has been shouldering for years. I imagine that he hasn’t felt this free [...]

Purple Cow

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s work of art over the past few weeks.
What has really grabbed me is that many people feel as if they don’t have the time to be totally remarkable. The only way a business or organization will succeed in the future is by embracing and amplifying [...]

Live to Work, or Work to Live?

A wise leader and I were talking about this other day. He shared that his (he is in his fifties) and many previous generations have seemed to live to work. In other words, much of their identity lies in their “job.” People who place their identity in a job or position sometimes forget [...]

Unrealistic Expectations

My wife woke me this morning because our dog, Sippi, was barking (or coughing… hard to determine). She shouted “this is amazing. You’ve gotta see this.” I thought it was snow. Oh, the surprise good snow in years! I am so excited! There must be white, frozen fun [...]

3 types of Credibility

I had a conversation the other day with a friend, who spoke about the three types of credibility:
•Educational Credibility- This doesn’t always look the same. Could be seminars, colleges, conventions, conferences, online training, books you’ve read, etc. Doug Fields says ‘leaders are learners’… That is powerful. People who are willing to [...]

Secret Confession #8- One Pierced Ear

In middle school I used to pretend I had one pierced ear (which I later achieved as a cool senior in high school) …. i pretended this by folding a staple around my ear lobe to “appear” like an actual piercing. It didn’t look real, I came to find out later.