Discipline Equals Freedom - A Winning Equation It’s one of those counterintuitive ideas that when you first think about it might not make sense. Discipline equals Freedom.  It’s one of the key principles for success highlighted in the fantastic leadership book ‘Extreme Ownership’ written by a couple of Navy SEALs last year. But it’s not a new idea. Aristotle said it this […]
What's the point of being a connector?
  photo by Ben Alford  I was at a networking event the other day and one of the people that I was meeting with remarked “You’re a Connector, aren’t you?”. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term Connector in his best selling book The Tipping Point a few years ago.  Simplistically Connectors are people that know a […]
The Power of Positive Thinking?
So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]
Do you choose great customer service?
I’m on a newsletter list for The Simple Truths which is an online company that specializes in inspirational books and CDs for the workplace.  The owner, Mac Anderson, was previously the founder for Successories and has taken a similar approach with books and movies that was so successful with motivational prints. They have a great article (part of a chapter […]
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