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Continue reading →: The Value of your Word
How much is your “word” worth? Well, I think in order to assign a value, tangible or otherwise, we must first understand what is being asked. Keeping your word, in essence, is making a promise to do something and, when you don’t live up to your word, you are in…
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Continue reading →: NABC
In business, as in life, you come across many situations where you find yourself needing to address an issue of some sort. The challenge, often, is that many of us do not take a holistic approach towards dissecting the condition and applying a logical framework to move us towards resolution.…
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Continue reading →: Life’s Resets…
If there is one thing that I have come to learn, accept, and expect throughout my life, it’s that, whether in a personal or professional capacity, people will experience what I call, “life’s resets”. In fact, people will experience many of them and in some cases cause them. Basically –…
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Continue reading →: 20 Months – My Thanks to PKE 126
Written: October 21st, 2011 Dedicated to my fellow classmates in the Presidential and Key Executive MBA Program at Pepperdine University – Cohort #126. Twenty months ago, 18 of us embarked upon a journey but unfortunately, we’d lost a couple along the way. When we started, we had no idea who…
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Continue reading →: The First 90 Days (on a new job)
The number one question on everyone’s mind, including those running in the current GOP election, is “When will the economy get back on track?” Of course, for the average citizen, the implication behind this question is “When will the unemployment rate reduce?” (i.e. when can I expect to find a…
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Continue reading →: The Trio of Trust
At the foundation of any real relationship, whether personal or professional, is trust. In fact, a relationship itself cannot sustain or survive without it. Imagine asking a friend for a favor and not trusting in the fact that they would actually deliver – what’s the point of asking in the…
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Continue reading →: What’s The Problem?
Recently, I took some time out and watched the movie Moneyball. For those of you don’t know the story, it’s predicated on the thesis that a player’s ability to get on base is far more valuable then their ability to hit home runs. Accordingly, for every player that gets on…
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Continue reading →: Natural (Universal) Laws
As the years of my life have gone by, I have to come accept, and more importantly, believe that there are natural laws that exist in the universe. While I cannot explain with absolute accuracy the origin of these laws, what I can explain is that in its simplest form,…
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Continue reading →: We The People…
Once the words of our founding forefathers, today, “We the People” has taken on a completely different meaning in my life. In lieu of the recent “Occupy” activities that have been occurring, it really begins to showcase how powerful people, when united around a collective effort, can actually be. While…
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Continue reading →: Time to Say Goodbye…
At some point in every manager’s career, there comes a time when you will need to terminate someone’s employment. Typically, this situation falls into one of two categories – a corporate layoff due to cost cutting / restructuring or letting an employee go for performance-related issues. Regardless of the reason,…
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