What Happened?
by From Volume 16, Issue 9:My friends at The Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in North Dakota, a Lutheran home for off-track kids, say that the question to ask about each child is not “What’s wrong?” It’s “What happened?”
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The Positive Power of NO redux
From Volume 16, Issue 8:It’s been 20 years since we published The Positive Power of NO: How that little word you love to hate can make or break your business.
Child-like? Or child-ish?
From Volume 16, Issue 7: Most of us can be and have been both Jekyll and Hyde. But why do we present ourselves so differently at different times? And so extremely?
It ain’t fair
Fair strikes me as an interesting albeit elusive concept. TV’s delivery of baseball games is a good place to see this in action. On your …
The right kind thing
From Volume 16, Issue 5:What’s the best thing to do? What’s right? Or what’s kind? It depends on your goal, I suppose. If I’m in a contest that I really want to win… or perhaps must win (to relieve financial stress), then I will definitely put all my efforts into being right.
You’ve been lied to.
From Volume 16, Issue 4:I’ve often commented that I, and most Baby Boomers in my situation, were born at a fortunate time and place and to parents who, from their experiences in life (Great Depression, WWII, Post-War recovery) were well suited to teach me the ways of life.
Permission
From Volume 16, Issue 3: It’s virtually impossible for me to learn something (add or change a belief, initiate or learn a skill, etc.) when I believe I know the subject matter. Almost inevitably I will take the information that someone is trying to teach me and compare it against what I already know. And then, with no motivation to do otherwise, I’ll discount it, or even argue with it either covertly or overtly.
Learning to learn
From Volume 16, Issue 2:Every one of us owns a pool of knowledge. It’s the sum and total of everything we’ve learned to date. We probably know hundreds of thousands of….things. Not only things, but how these things interact. And what they mean to us
Resolve to Not Resolve
From Volume 16, Issue 1:So your New Years’ resolution didn’t work? Want to know why?
There are two schools of thought about how we act in such situations.
The Value of Clarity
From Volume 15, Issue 1: It’s been almost 20 years since I assembled the team that wrote the book, The Positive Power of NO. At the time there were dozens of books on the subject of YES: Getting to YES, Yes is the Answer, etc. I had gathered a half dozen of my fellow business consultants and asked if they found themselves counseling their clients to reign in the “you can do it” mantra and start to set limits. In other words, figuring out what to say no to.