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“When your intelligence don’t tell you something ain’t right, your conscience gives you a tap on the shoulder and says ‘Hold on.’ If it don’t,…

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional, and are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce This certainly puts a different…

“Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of…

aeda, John with Becky Bermot. Redesigning Leadership. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011. …courage is a noble form of stupidity that aids getting impossible things done.…

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” One may assume that Plutarch intended…

“Be not simply good; be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau This is great advice; but try not to be too much of a…

You have a job only you can do. The job you have is being you. At the end of each day you must take a…

“Are things out of control?” This is a most interesting question. You likely ask yourself this question sometimes and experience pronounced anxiety as you consider…

“Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.” — Glen Beaman Stubbornness certainly has its up…

Do you want to know everything there is to know about success in about five minutes? If so, please press play and learn. If not,…

There is a space between you and me where the balance is just about right, but if the balance gets out of balance, all is…

orris, Tom. If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards. New York: Doubleday, 2006. The greatest teachers are always…

Come with me now into the heart of the pulsing confusion that passes for reality. There we find all of the experiences that register as…

This episode of Audio Tidbits is no more nor no less than you might expect from an episode called Random Wisdom. If you are already…

ockell, Leslie and Adrienne Avila. The 100 Greatest Leadership Principles of all Time. New York: Warner Business Books, 2007. Leadership is a matter of intelligence,…

In these days of fake news and intentional misinformation, it’s easy to wonder if anything we read or hear is true. Maybe even more alarming…

You’ve probably heard the advice that tells us that we have to go along to get along. Much of the time, if it’s not altogether…

There is a popular notion that advises that we can’t succeed without first failing. The idea is that we fail forward to success. There are…

I am reluctantly considering the conclusion that much of what I have believed for as long as I have believed anything may represent far more…

I’m tempted to initiate our conversation by saying, “There are two types of people: ….” Since my plan is to talk about advice and attitudes,…