Personal Improvement

I had a power outage. Flipped all the relays, but that didn't help. So I flipped them all again, harder, and that did it. When something doesn't work, don't just give up. Try your solution again with more intent and focus. It

Two hallway ceiling lights both went dark, and at first I thought we had a fuse problem. But  when I took them apart, I found that all three bulbs in each fixture were burned out. I then deduced that the

If you were standing midway around an oval track, and someone said, "Get to the point opposite as fast as possible," would you run around the track or simply cut across the middle?! If you want to change from who

I'm in Adelaide at 5 am Monday morning and I found a channel showing all the NFL games in live action, alternating whenever there is a scoring play or exciting action (it's Sunday afternoon back home). I wish I could

Practice keeping things simple. Don't provide "background." Ask a simple question in one sentence. Respond to a question with brevity. We often confuse complexity, length, and convolution with intelligence. Actually, they are in inverse proportion.

I have found that audiences are far better served with provocation and by challenging them with new ideas than they are with commiseration, pandering, and "comfort food" (which many presentations resemble). Of course, the speaker must be oriented toward helping

I don't know if there are the proverbial "two kinds of people," but I do know there are two kinds of responses to new ideas: Let me tell you why that won't work. Let me figure out how I can

When I lived in New Jersey, I would take a Pan Am helicopter from Newark to LaGuardia or Kennedy, fly to Montreal or Toronto, conduct business and sales calls, then return to New York, take the chopper back to Jersey,

The best groups I've ever formed or facilitated have members who are uniformly comfortable being vulnerable. My wife commented once, while sitting in with the group's permission, that it was the first such meeting she'd ever attended where no one,

Whenever someone from a client told me that their boss was the problem, I always asked, "So, what do you plan to do about that?" About 90% of the time they told me they were powerless and afraid of being fired,