How To Be Twice As Productive
“Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.” – William Hazlitt (“On a Sundial,” Sketches and Essays,…
READ MOREThe Ability to Bounce Back
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan…
READ MORESix Ways to Find the Time You Need to Achieve Your Dream
“Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains — except kill it.” – Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving, 1956) “How many of you get up at 5:30?” I…
READ MOREWhat Makes for a Well-Lived Life?
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” – Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974) The New York Times recently ran an obituary on a doctor named Salvator Altcheck. He…
READ MOREPresentations: Why Settle for Good When You Can Do Better?
“Could everything be done twice, everything would be done better.” – German proverb You can’t escape it. If you want to put in a good performance, you must practice — and then you must prepare. I had practiced my new system for critiquing advertising copy at least a dozen…
READ MORELearning about Leadership and Cooperation
As TH began explaining the rules, I felt the clutch of anxiety. His brainstorming technique, said to have originated in the offices of Walt Disney, required a level playing field for all the players. There would be no criticizing anyone else’s suggestions. No challenges, questions, or refutations. Everyone’s contribution was…
READ MOREMake Sure You Recognize The Buttons
If you want to get a lot accomplished, you need to be able to motivate all sorts of people to work harder and smarter than they would otherwise. To do that, you need to figure out what motivates them. Granted, we are all complex creatures. None of us is…
READ MORENever Stop Learning
“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.” – Confucius (Analects, sixth century B.C.) The most successful businesspeople I know never tire of learning new things. Even in the sunsets of their careers, they…
READ MORETen Traits of Successful People
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” – Washington Irving (“Roscoe,” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, 1819-20) Investor’s Business Daily, according to Investor’s Business Daily, “has spent years analyzing business leaders and…
READ MOREOne Year Later
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to human folly.” – Lyndon B. Johnson (address, Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965) Today, the “anniversary” of the destruction…
READ MOREBoost Your Creativity with “The Mozart Effect”
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate; it goes on to become.” – W.H. Auden (“Notes on Music and Opera,” The Dyer’s Hand, 1962) Researchers have discovered many interesting things about the effects of classical music — especially Mozart’s — on the…
READ MOREAbout Labor Day
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Day, you may be interested to know, has been an official holiday in the United States and Canada since 1894. But though North Americans have been celebrating this…
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