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How to Fail

A guaranteed way to increase your odds of failing, to reduce your productivity, to rein in your creativity, to curb your innovation,

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The Importance of Sitzfleisch

Do you have sufficient sitzfleisch? Sitzfleisch is stamina, the power to endure or persevere in an activity. The word is German in

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How to Get Ahead in Business

These quotations are taken from a May 18, 2012, Wall Street Journal article by John Bussey, “How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice

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Tickler File: A Busy Person’s Best Friend

A tickler file is a way to write notes to your future self. At its simplest level, it is a calendar where

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How to Earn Your Boss’s Respect

Easy! 1. Proactively ‘fess up to material mistakes, significant errors, and missed targets. 2. Take full responsibility for solving challenges. Fully live

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No Whining Please

Whining: To complain needlessly, peevishly, in an unreasonable, repeated, or irritating way Okay, life can be tough at times, often unfair. Customers

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What Made Us Great? Do We Still Have It?

If you believe famed British historian Niall Ferguson, author of “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” six things led to the dominance

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A Culture of Belief

“All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results,” is a new book by Chester Elton

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How Will You Measure Your Life?

“How Will You Measure Your Life?” is both an age-old question and the title of a new book by Harvard Business School

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Motivation and the Two-Factor Theory

The opposite of satisfaction is not dissatisfaction, rather no satisfaction. Similarly, the opposite of dissatisfaction is no dissatisfaction. The two-factor theory of

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Following Feynman’s First Principle

Physicist Richard Feynman’s First Principle is simple: “You must not fool yourself… and you are the easiest person to fool.” We tend

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Muda, Mura, Muri

Muda, Mura, and Muri are three Japanese words representing core focuses in the Toyota Way of eliminating waste and inefficiency and increasing