choose or lose

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Choose or Lose

Americans revel in having choices. Fifty-five (permanent) flavors of Haagen-Daz ice cream, more models of cars than we can shake a stick

confirming satisfaction

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Confirming Satisfaction and Creating Closure: Key Customer Service Checkpoint

Closing the communication loop is vital. Too often a business gets a request or complaint and takes action to resolve the situation

dominance dependence detachment

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Dominance, Dependence, Detachment: Three Responses to Life

How much are we driven by anxiety, by a desire for security? Karen Horney; 1885–1952, was a German psychoanalyst who postulated in

pleasant good meaningful life

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The Pleasant Life, The Good Life, and The Meaningful Life

In “Authentic Happiness,” Dr. Martin Seligman; 1942–, postulates that there are three paths to happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and

look in the mirror

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Look in the Mirror

Do you want to see your biggest opponent? Look in the mirror. Want to see your biggest ally? Look in the mirror.

code of the west

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Code of the West

“Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn From The Code Of The West,” by James P. Owen, is a book of heart

quality is not goodness

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Quality is NOT Goodness, or Even Excellence

Quality is conformance to specified standards. Goodness is an undefended term, even an emotional one. Even excellence is subjective, a value judgment

sugar coating difficult conversations

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Sugar Coating Only Causes Calories: Three Keys to Difficult Conversations

Ah, difficult conversations. Those conversations we want to avoid, be it our neighbors’ noisy parties or the Team Members who seem to

Rectangle 10

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In Praise of Epistemological Modesty

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full

joys of radical acceptance

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The Joys of Radical Acceptance

Everyone wants to change the world, no one wants to change themselves. Truer still, we want others to change (our partner, our

cant make money by going broke

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You Can’t Make Money by Going Broke—if it ain’t accretive to earnings, why do it?

It may sound silly but it is true and we all know it: You can’t make money by going broke. Yet what

why not you

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Why Not You?

Today, someone will change their life for the better. Why not you? Today, someone, somewhere will practice kindness to all. Why not