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Wisdom on the Fly

I find quotations valuable because they can encapsulate wisdom. Life’s challenge is to DO as well as we KNOW; in the critical

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Dealing with Business Risk

Real estate development (versus acquisition of existing rental communities) is a major part of what I do. There is out there the

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Live Long and Prosper: Your Choice

A Swedish study of identical twins separated at birth and reared apart found that genes accounted for only 20 to 30 percent

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Personal Power vs. Positional Power

Power may be thought of as either positional or personal. Positional power is external to you. It is your important job title,

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Written Communication Skills: The Importance of Simplicity

Communication is key to gaining support for an idea or project. The ability to summarize succinctly, to get core concepts across quickly

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The Social Contract

While driving down the street the other day, I heard an ambulance siren behind me so I pulled over to allow it

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Style vs. Substance: Art of the Skillful Skeptic

Can style really trump substance? Can a confident smooth talker gain our trust more easily than a more competent but less-polished speaker?

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Memo to My Company

Please, please promise never to do this to our customers! Whenever I experience a mediocre customer service encounter, I think, “How can

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Lean and Hungry

Disque D. Deane passed away November 8, 2010, at age 89. Deane, a shrewd real estate investor who once controlled the GM

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A Nation of Sheep?

WARNING: This is a populist, patriotic “Live Free or Die” posting, a departure from my norm of personal leadership, containing Founding Fathers,

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Over Treated

Recently, I read an excellent book by Shannon Brownlee, “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.” Its thesis

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What Don’t You Want to Think About?

Avoidance is simply a way of coping by not coping, dodging uncomfortable situations, evading discombobulating challenges. There is great temptation to sidestep