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It’s the NET in Net Operating Income (NOI) that counts

Several times recently Team Members have explained (fully or partially) an expense decision by saying, “It’s in the financial plan.” The rest

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Successful Failure

A successful failure is one that is not fatal or catastrophic, from which comes a material or equivalent learning experience. Successful failures

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Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences

This excerpt from “Waiting,” an autobiography by a waitress, illustrates how bonus compensation systems can create perverse incentives: In this restaurant (part

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Is Your Mind Prematurely Aging Your Body?

There is a concept called aging set point, which is that our attitudes toward aging can materially affect the way we age.

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The Power of Negative Thinking

So you’re wondering, what’s up? Everyone knows that Nathan is an advocate of positive thinking, a radiant optimist if there ever was

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Harnessing Activation Energy

In physics, activation energy is the initial spark to catalyze a reaction. In life, activation energy is the motivation it takes to

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Daily Strokes of Effort

People are creatures of habit. How could we not be? Otherwise the myriad decisions required each day would overwhelm us. It is

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The Comma

Life is complex, business is challenging. If it were easy, it would already have been done a long time ago. The world

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Avoid Defensive Bristling: It’s Not About Being Right but Getting it Right

You make a presentation to your boss’s boss. You’ve put a lot of hard work and late nights into the finished product.

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Meet Like a CEO: The Higher You Go, The Shorter the Meeting

On Sundays, The New York Times runs a series called “The Corner Office,” fascinating weekly interviews with CEOs of small- and mid-sized

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Under-Indulgence

Which tastes better? The first bite of that huge piece of mouth-watering chocolate cake or the last? Most say the first and

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Using Tiger Woods’s Clubs Every Day of Your Life

Step on to the putting green with me. I hand you a putter and I tell you it had once been used