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Years ago at IBM I was promoted to a job in division headquarters. It was a nice step up on the corporate ladder, a chance to get some "inside baseball" and learn how the business worked from that side of a paycheck. One of my first assignments was to design a "platform" to better support [...]

By |2021-01-19T09:46:12-04:00October 15th, 2010|Communication, Competence, Thinking Differently|0 Comments

The best story wins

Monty Roberts is a horse whisperer. He is one of a few horse trainers that use specific methods to start horses rather than break them. Roberts notes that the “secret” to his process is clear and in the open for any and all to see: horses have their own ways of communicating, el lenguaje del [...]

By |2021-01-19T09:46:12-04:00October 11th, 2010|Communication, Competence, Leadership, Things I Believe|0 Comments

If you could make God bleed…

"If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him... there will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come." Ivan Vanko (actor Mickey Rourke), Iron Man 2. In the movie Iron Man 2, the hero, Tony Stark (actor Robert Downey, Jr.) has made the world aware of his dual identity, [...]

By |2021-01-19T09:46:13-04:00October 6th, 2010|Character, Communication, Competence, Life|1 Comment

Speak as if you’re right; listen as if you’re wrong

Do you ever feel like you're arguing with idiots? Most of them actually aren't (idiots). Some probably are. For those, remember, "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." (Wm. G. MacAdoo) In most business and professional discourse someone has to be the grown up and it might as well be you. Here's [...]

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