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Leadership

[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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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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The Trouble with Success

June 27, 2010

Given the choice between career success and career failure I’ll likely take success. Heck I’m like anyone else; who do you know who hates succeding? The trouble with success – one of many – is that most of your learning comes from the bumps of failure, not the sweetness of accomplishment. The biggest derailer in [...]

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[Life Back West] June 2010: “Never Can Say Goodbye”

June 24, 2010

My 96-year old mother died last week after a 12-month bout with dementia, and a much briefer tussle with pneumonia. While I had been fortunate to spend good time with her in Portland earlier this year while she mostly remembered who I was, I missed her passing by an hour Thursday. The flight that I [...]

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The Psychic Blogger: Pfizer to Pay Academics to Find Uses for Molecules

May 25, 2010

The headline for the story in the Wall Street Journal by Jonathan Rockoff said it all: Pfizer to Pay Academics to Find Uses for Molecules. Rather than have their own researchers take a crack at it, Pfizer is spending $22.5M to have researchers at the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis review approximately [...]

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How to Say Yes (When You Really Mean “No”)

May 14, 2010

The problem from the client was common. His boss had agreed to something the CEO had asked to be done, and now it was being passed along to him to execute. The problem was that the idea was flawed – “a turd on the table” as a former colleague of mine might have said – [...]

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