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Ten Tips for Tackling Your Mountain, Part 1

Word Count: 1,351 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. At one point or another, just about everyone is faced with a mountain he or she must climb.  In most cases, it is a metaphorical mountain rather than an...

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Ten Tips for Tackling Your Mountain, Part 2

Word Count: 1,451 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. At some point, you’ll have to climb a metaphorical mountain in your professional or personal life.  You’ll have to travel through unchartered rocky...

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Self-Confidence and the Goldilocks Effect

Word Count: 1,295 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The Confidence Spectrum:  Insecurity, Self-Confidence and Over-Confidence Everyone wants to boost their self-confidence.  It is an essential quality in...

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How to Decrease Decision Fatigue

Word Count: 1,382 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. Daily Decision Overload General consensus is that the average adult makes about 35,000 decisions in a day.  That’s a LOT of decisions!  If it sounds...

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Thinking Errors and Business: Negativity Bias – Part 1

Word Count: 1,225 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The Problem with Negativity Bias and Business People regularly have ‘thinking errors’.  These errors of the mind are generally instinctive.  One thinking...

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Thinking Errors and Business: Negativity Bias – Part 2

Word Count: 1,332 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Countering Negativity Bias in Individuals and Business Negativity Bias refers to the idea that things of a negative nature — unpleasant thoughts,...

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Thinking Errors and Business: Confirmation Bias, Part 1

Word Count: 1,367 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Confirmation Bias:  The Mind Wants to be Right Has this ever happened to you?  You believe something to be true, and then a research study you read...

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Thinking Errors and Business: Confirmation Bias, Part 2

Word Count: 1,616 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. The Downside of Confirmation Bias The term Confirmation Bias was first coined by British psychologist Peter Cathcart Wason in 1960 during an...

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It’s A Matter of Time

Word Count: 1,186 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. The average life expectancy for a person in the U.S. is 79 years of age.  Broken down by gender, it’s 76 years for a man and 81 years for a woman.  The...

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10 Ways for Companies to Help Staff Grow and Develop – Part 1

Word Count: 1,423 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. The U.S. Labor Market shows that unemployment is pretty low.  The overall unemployment rate is at 4% nationwide.[1] But even that number doesn’t tell...

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10 Ways for Companies to Help Staff Grow and Develop – Part 2

Word Count: 1,289 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. Growth is an inherent part of human DNA.  Individuals begin growing at birth and the growth process never really ends.  First, it is “growing up” from...

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What To Do (and Not Do) When An Employee Resigns

Word Count: 1,803 Estimated Read Time: 7 min. As sure as death and taxes, business owners, leaders and managers should absolutely expect most employees to resign over time.  Almost no one works at the...

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Elevating Ordinary Moments to Create Extraordinary Experiences for Clients...

Word Count: 1,357 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Every company and leader is looking for ways to dazzle clients and keep top talent engaged and excited.  They want to ‘add sizzle and gleam to the...

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The Butterfly Effect on Business, Part 1

Word Count: 1,579 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. The marvels of creation attest to the Creator, as it is simply impossible for any human being to have orchestrated all these minute details. Without...

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The Butterfly Effect on Business, Part 2

Word Count: 1,947 Estimated Read Time: 8 min. In Poor Richard’s Almanack[1], Benjamin Franklin once wrote:  ““For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost....

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To Develop the Most Successful Business, Embrace Kaizen – Part 1

Word Count: 1,364 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Kaizen is the Japanese word for ‘Improvement’.  Generally, it is said that Kai means change and zen means good or better.  But it actually translates...

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To Develop the Most Successful Business, Embrace Kaizen – Part 2

Word Count: 1,653 Estimated Read Time: 6 ½ min. Change happens. Change happens in every business or organization, and those changes can either be controlled and guided by the company or are controlled...

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Why Many Overachievers, Rising Stars and Go Getters feel like Imposters

Word Count: 1,457 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Exposing Imposter Syndrome Imposter Syndrome is a condition experienced secretly — and often with deep fear and shame — by many super stars, high...

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The Importance of Organizational Confidence

Word Count: 1,653 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. Organizational Confidence:  Fact or Myth Confidence is one of those vague traits that is hard to define but you know when you see it.  It is a...

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Navigating Workplace Negativity

Is there a Negative Nancy, Glum Gus or Pessimistic Peter bringing down your entire workplace?  This negative ninny focuses on the bad to the exclusion of all positive aspects, engaging in “all or...

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