October 2010

[Life Back West] October 2010 – “Screenless Sundays”

The impetus to ask my spouse to trade up to the 21st century and get a smartphone that texted came from practicality. In a world where many of us simply speak a number or name with voice enabled devices to get connected with someone  (FaceTime calling?) I was punching in three sets of phone numbers [...]

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You Did What? (And How To Get More Common Sense)

Thomas Edison noted “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-itiveness, and third, common sense.” Carol Dweck, Anders Ericsson, and Angela Duckworth have the first two qualities well-covered, I’ll take a crack at the third. “Common sense,”  it’s been said (C. E. Stowe) “is the knack of seeing things as [...]

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Job Different than Your Job Title? Here’s A Simple Way to Explain It

It never ceases to be an interesting world in which we work. Job titles have morphed (inflated would be another word) as companies have paid in title to augment what formerly would have been paid in compensation, or have countered the title inflation of their competition – like Dr. Seuss’ Butter Battle War – with [...]

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How to Succeed? Try and Fail! And Try Again.

Albert Einstein noted “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” So what’s up with the craving for the sweet smell of success people that people are determined to avoid the taint  of failure? Biotech CEO Robert Johnson told me that when he did business development at Lilly he was paid [...]

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