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J. Mike Smith

The Coming Armageddon in Private Liberal Arts Higher Education

September 3, 2010

It’s back to school time across the nation. Kids (and adults) ranging from preschoolers to people doing post-graduate work are packing their backpacks and heading to class. For alumni and students of private liberal arts colleges, schools that number in the hundreds across the United States, it’s a time time though before the perfect storm [...]

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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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