Category: The Doing (Accountability)

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The Shortest Distance isn’t Always a Straight Line

Sometimes going directly for what you want isn’t the best strategy. We seek ‘Perfect Outcomes’ when perhaps we should really be focused

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Are You Ready for Luck?

The unsuccessful sometimes attribute the success of others to good luck. Balderdash! Luck, good and bad, comes to all. As the good

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Speaking Gently: Three Gates Plus a 4th

The great Sufi poet, Rumi, believed that before we speak, our words should pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it

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Are You Watering Weeds?

We ‘water weeds’ when we waste our time/energy. Weeds come in many forms: Saying yes to the unimportant, to others’ priorities that

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Gut Check Truth

“Reading without application is just a form of wasting time.” I read that sentence in a TM’s email* and it was a

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Reach for the Broom

Are you willing to step up when the need arises? When the call comes, do you step forward? Raise your hand and

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The Invincible Summer Within

There is a famous quote by Nobel Literature Prize winner Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there

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True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and

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What We Need is a Bigger Hammer…NOT!

The ‘Bigger Hammer’ approach is simplistic thinking that blithefully assumes that more of the same, just increasing intensity or scale, will work.

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."

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Difficulties in Telling Truth to Power… even when Power Wants to Listen

I recently managed to lose $12 million dollars in just over two years. Since the biggest mistake is the one you don’t

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I Have Trust Issues

I made the statement ‘I Have Trust Issues’ in semi jest replying to an inquiry as to why The Collier Companies always