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Everyone’s Got Something

September 2, 2010

No one’s perfect. Some people wear their imperfections on their sleeve. Some people show them off when they open their mouths to speak. And some carry their imperfections around on the inside, hidden from the world. But make no mistake: whatever you see, however perfect someone looks, you can trust—sure as God put little green [...]

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What’s Going Right?

September 1, 2010

Sometimes, all you need to do to fix a situation is turn the question on its head.

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Know Your Limits.

August 31, 2010

Do you know your limits? Do you respect them? A quick update on my workout experiment: during a jump move the other day, I pulled my quad. Nothing too bad, but rather than finish the last 15 minutes of my workout, I immediately went to the cool down and then scheduled a massage, which seems [...]

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Project Rejection

August 31, 2010

Welcome back, Michael Plahn! For those of you who don’t know, Michael runs Life Skills Authorities, a group that helps individuals with addiction treatment. Michael also runs a program called Project Rejection, with I, as co-creator of the Fail Spectacularly! Party, find freaking awesome. Here’s the scoop on Project Rejection: In the past, I would [...]

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Since our thoughts are Not Fit To Print, my friend and colleague Carol Roth and I did this little video on our take of Seth’s big announcement, including, why did it take him 12 frickin bestselling books to figure this out and a big thanks in advance for thinning the herd…

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Workout Fail…?

August 28, 2010

Long story short: I decided to get back into shape and my daughters asked me if that meant I was going to get a 6-pack. Hmm, I thought. Never had one of those. Why not? Enter P90X. Actually, enter my willingness to buy things off TV. (You didn’t know that about me, did you?) Then [...]

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You Can’t “Learn Politics”

August 27, 2010   Real Life Fails

“Learning politics” is like learning chess: understanding the rules of the game accounts for about 1/1000% of mastery. If that. If you truly want to understand politics, you need to be able to shift your entire perspective of the world around you. You need to cultivate a deeper appreciation for what drives people. And you [...]

 

Life Is Messy

August 26, 2010   Practical Inspiration

Not everything in life is clean. On the contrary, life is pretty darn messy. Messiness is a given. Your job is to do your job while also dealing with the mess. The mess could be a noisy cubemate, a bad boss, an impossible deadline, conflicting priorities, or an out-of-whack personal life. The mess could be [...]

 

Corporate Culture ROI

August 25, 2010   Tips & Tricks

You cannot calculate the ROI of culture, using modern technologies and knowledge, any more than you can calculate the value of trust or the health benefits of love. If you are responsible for stewarding culture at your organization, and you are pressed to deliver an ROI for your efforts, memorize the following passage. You’ll find [...]

 

The Quote Board

August 24, 2010   This is Bullsh*t

Years ago, I worked at a company where we had a quote board. It was a whole section of the wall in our office wing, and it was covered in completely conversational snippets things like: ‘There’s nothing at that URL.’ ‘That’s because you typed lickmyballs.com. Try lickmynuts.com.’ That line is from the actual board, and [...]

 

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