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100%/0%

100 percent/zero percent is shorthand for the concept that you should give your all without expectation. Give 100% and expect 0% in

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Creating Value vs. Transferring Value

As a business person it is my goal to create value. Value is created when the whole is more than the sum

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“How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like,” by Paul Bloom

We assume we like things because they feel good and dislike others because they don’t feel good. In other words, pleasure is

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Just How Big an Ego Do You Need to be a Leader?

George Steinbrenner, long-time owner of the New York Yankees, passed away at 80 in July 2010. Steinbrenner was well-known for his passion

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30 Methods of Influence: #27 Delegate Effectively

“30 Methods of Influence” by Stephen R. Covey 27. Delegate effectively. Effective delegation takes emotional courage as we allow, to one degree

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Feet of Clay? It’s Okay!

People want certainty, they want security. They want to feel that someone really smart, really competent, really capable is in charge. They

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Fear: An Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

“The primary difference between an entrepreneur and a professional business manager, generally speaking, is one of attitude. The entrepreneur, especially when starting

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The Extra Degree

The difference between hot water and steam is 1 degree. At 212 degrees everything changes. Are you willing to go the “extra

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Frugal Innovation

Frugal innovation is a recently-popularized term characterized by careful, insightful, and economical use of resources, a specific kind of innovation that takes

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30 Methods of Influence: #26 Speak the Languages of Logic and Emotion

“30 Methods of Influence” by Stephen R. Covey 26. Speak the languages of logic and emotion. The language of logic and the

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“Hold Fast Your Dreams”

Okay, I’m a businessman, an attorney, an accountant, have a building contractor’s license. All serious, serious stuff. Far removed from perhaps the

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What is your HLP? (Highest Leverage Point)

Life is wonderful but it also is rather finite (anybody find a way out of here alive, please let me know). I