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Who Drives You Up The Wall?
Is there someone where you work who absolutely, totally, and unequivocally drives you up the wall? Do you sometimes feel like climbing the wall all by yourself as the quickest way to escape? If you are saying Yes! Yes! Yes!, this article is just what the doctor ordered. It shows you how to manage those who play B t B: By the Book.
The Tie That Binds
You are about to learn the secret recipe for the tie that binds. The ingredients and how to lovingly combine them have been protected and tenderly passed down, hand-to-hand, through the generations. This article holds the key to a long and satisfying relationship with your beloved.
The Ten Commandments Of Leadership
There are many behaviors and approaches that enhance your ability to work successfully with people, especially if you are in management or supervision. As you know, they also work well within families, with your friends, and as you participate in your community. You are up-to-speed with the latest and greatest strategies and techniques. What you may not know are the ten commandments of leadership. This article brings them to you.
The Mystery Of Intuition
Intuition is elusive. You know it exists but it’s difficult to explain. You experience insight or understanding; you know what to do or not do; you can predict outcomes and avoid dangers. Jonas Salk said, “Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” Why do you now know what you didn't know just moments ago? This article helps you better understand your intuitive processes and take full advantage of your hidden, intuitive capacity.
The Marriage Triangle
Think of your marriage as a triangle with lovers, friends, and partners as its sides. Understanding and succeeding in each dimension is the key to happiness, the foundation of the tie that binds. This article helps you understand the marriage triangle and strengthen that tie, strengthen your marriage.
The Key To Virtue
"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him." -- Charles Horton Cooley -- There are three concepts here that represent an unusual juxtaposition: "conflict," "the game," and "virtue." This article discusses virtue and how you can assure that you are actually behaving virtuously.
Taking Care Of Business
Have you ever had it stuck to you by one of those hit and run types whose motto is "Business is Business?" Their trick is to never try to do business tomorrow where they setup shop yesterday. It is a strategy best suited to those whose bottom line is merely the bottom line. If instead, your bottom line depends on long term relationships with your friends and family, customers and co workers, this article is for you.
Stop The Bullies
What is a bully? When does the typical behavior of children (younger and older) stop being normal and expected and transcend to bullying? Those seem like fairly easy questions and they used to have fairly easy answers. We used to know which children were bullies and were reasonably clear about when normal behavior crossed the line into bullying, but no more. This article examines the underlying issues in today’s society.
Some Stuff I Have Learned
The toothpaste won't go back into the tube. I learned this important fact when I was about 6. I don't remember how I managed to get the toothpaste out of the tube and all over me, the bathroom, and my new shirt. But I sure do remember that there was no way to get it back into the tube before my mother asked the question all mothers ask. 'What in the world do you think you are doing?' …
Secrets Of Proactive Leadership
Proactive leaders are cautious without becoming paralyzed by the potential downside of action. They pursue their goals continuously but incrementally, testing/evaluating progress toward the goal. This truth introduces the twelve secrets of Proactive Leadership. This article reveals these secrets and shows you how to incorporate them into your leadership practice.
Puppy Power
I'm sitting here watching our puppy bark at his reflection in the window in the door to the back yard. His goal is to get outside but he has a problem. There is a guard dog on the other side of the window, staying right with him, bark for bark, preventing his exit. He first runs up to the other dog, tries to get past him, then backs away to analyze and evaluate. This article has the rest of the story.
Pass It Along
As you think about what you ought to do for other people, passing your character along to your children is both a responsibility and an opportunity. Children don’t come into the world with their character pre-packaged. Rather, it develops and evolves through their early years. Character is learned and thus, is taught. This article shows you how you are key to their learning process.
Nerves And Butterflies
Just imagine it. There you are, mentally ready and eager; but nerves and those pesky butterflies are holding you back. The next thing you know, you are pacing the floor and ringing your hands. Is that the pits or what, your becoming unhinged over a few uncooperative butterflies? Indeed it is! This article helps you get control of those butterflies and give your success your best.
Negotiations: Some Advanced Techniques
The techniques covered in this article are used by serious and expert negotiators. Watch for them when negotiating. When they appear, know immediately that you are negotiating with an expert. Over time, you will find them becoming more and more a part of your negotiating style.
Negotiations: Preliminary Tips & Techniques
Being a good negotiator is a skill you will find useful in many situations. The skills you will develop will facilitate your being more effectively assertive, being a better problem solver, and being a better conflict manager. Developing the skills is sometimes tedious and requires a lot of practice. The payoff is both substantial and positive, though. This article focuses on what needs to happen before negotiations start.
Monkey Bridges And PRIDE
Your personal monkey bridges are usually easy to see. They loom monstrously in the path to your success. Your challenge is to approach each one with PRIDE and then reach down deep inside for the strength and confidence to just do it. This article shows you the meaning of PRIDE and how to handle those pesky monkey bridges that are blocking your path to success.
Management And Guiding Principles
All management is based on guiding principles. This is true whether the principles are appropriate or inappropriate, reasonable or unreasonable, consistent or inconsistent. This article will help you understand the most appropriate guiding principles and how to use effective strategies to assure organizational excellence and better assure your success as a manager.
How To Rate Your Boss
Theodore Roosevelt said, “The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” This article gives you a strategy you can use to rate your boss and shows you how to evaluate your rating.
Gurus On Success
Do you like to pop a tape into your cassette player and learn the secrets of success? Do you enjoy listening to a motivational speaker encouraging you to get your get up and go up and going? Are you eager to take on the tiger, go for the gusto, pursue that pot of gold at the end of your rainbow? If so, this article tells you what world-class success experts agree on when it comes to the ways of winners.
Fired With Enthusiasm
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." = "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." – Horace -- Along with “Carpe diem,” Horace said, “He has the deed half done who has made a beginning." Indira Gandhi also thought that getting on with getting on is the way to go, "Have a bias toward action....” If you are ready to Seize the day, this article is just what you need to consider.
Fathers and Father's Day
It certainly comes as no surprise that fathers are important or that a special day has been set aside for remembering Dad. Sure, mothers got their day first; but the people in charge of designating special days finally got around to the obvious: Fathers deserve being honored too. This article does that and helps you do it for your dad too.
Facing Angry Bears & other Realities
Sometimes you need to take a chance but it’s recommended only when it’s “indicated.” Therein lies the rub. How do you tell when it’s indicated? Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you; but you may want to double check to be sure the attack is imminent before you pursue hand to paw combat with the bear. This article tells you how to decide and then shows you the hidden reality behind success and failure.
Conference Room Wars
Have you been through the conference room wars? Do you recognize warriors in action or is it just business as usual? Are the players productive and oriented to the goals of their company or are they pursuing their own agendas? There are definitely warriors at work and the article shows you how to successfully manage them.
Children Are People Too
“Children are our most important resource.” This is usually simply asserted as a given, with no further justification or explanation. You have likely heard it so many times that it has become little more than a cliché. It sounds right so everyone just takes it for granted that it’s right; but are children actually “our most important resource?” More to the point, are they a resource at all? This article explores this important question.
Can and Did
How should you approach success? What is the best strategy for blending did and can? Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out, “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will.” The message is that you can’t simply “will” things to happen. You have a wide range of options for doing but no magical powers. This article helps you understand and exploit the options you actually have.
Business As Usual And Other Facts Of Life
It probably comes as no surprise that merely trusting others is not the end of it. The question is not just, "Who do you trust?" It isn't, "Who trusts you?" either, since even world class scoundrels likely are trusted sometimes by someone. The question is, "Is there any good reason why anyone should trust you?" This article explores this and other principles of personal success.
Broken Men
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." -- Frederick Douglas -- Whether this is true or not is certainly less than obvious. The lack of clarity starts with the meaning of “strong children” and “broken men.” This article explores these questions and how you can assure that your children are "strong."
Agitators In The Office
Understanding the motivations of agitators is not too difficult if you look at their behavior and then ask yourself why they are behaving that way. More to the point, what do they get out of it? This article helps you understand their motivations and, more importantly, how to effectively manage their disruptive behavior.
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