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Coaching

How to Get a Great Start: “Back to School”

September 2, 2010

The art of the good, strong start is something that many of us should master, but few of us seldom do. Why? Probably because it’s a little like that set of occasions (weddings, funerals, baptisms and bar/bas mitzvahs etc.) that happen enough to notice but seldom enough to avoid generating a best practice mindset. Many [...]

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[Life Back West] August 2010 – “Great Expectations”

August 26, 2010

When you love your child as much as I do my 8 year-old son Traylor, serious discipline seldom seems simple or easy. But when you start from a point of promise, it also helps to start with the values to support and nurture those hopes. The failure to follow our family’s values got my son [...]

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What Motivates: Gold, Glory, or God?

August 23, 2010

Motivation comes in many forms, and knowing what motivates the people you work with can make all the difference from “has done” to “has been.” Pay, or as the HR people like to say, compensation, has turned out not to be the end-all-be-all for motivational purposes. As Dan Pink has ably exposed in his latest [...]

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How to Live a Better Life: Serendipity and the Accidental Tourist

August 11, 2010

Many of us live a life where there is too much going on in too little time; it happens at work, at home, and any other shred of life that’s left. But like many things, it doesn’t have to be that way, and there are a least four ways to make a change. One element [...]

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Can Good Guys Finish First?

August 5, 2010

You work hard, try to do the right thing, and frequently put the interests of others ahead of your own. You’re a good guy. But does that mean you’ll be a success? “Nice guys finish last” is an adage we all know, and it suggests that not only do nice people do poorly in the [...]

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How to Brag (Without Bragging): Blame it on Luck!

July 24, 2010

It’s a common challenge; how do you talk about what you’ve done if you’ve done well without sounding like the jerk down the hall who everyone calls a cleetus maggot? In a world where Cheat Your Way to the Top seems to be a common workplace theme song, being accurate and correctly portraying yourself and your [...]

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