How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count Just a Few Ways
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” is a famous line from an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem. Counting the reasons you love someone (or like a friend, enjoy your car, prefer a certain store, etc.) is only good advice if you don’t have to count too high. In fact, I’ll go so […]
The Secret to Motivating a Slacker on Your Team
This week’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo, the co-author of and the author of . He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the U.S. Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding his own company, he was an […]
You’re Sure You’re Right? Really Sure?
No doubt you’ve heard Donald Trump is running for president. It seems as if The Donald has said he might run each of the last four presidential races but he surprisingly took that step this time. The bigger news story came with his remarks about illegal aliens, especially people coming from the Mexican-American border, and […]
When the Good Becomes Bad
Have you ever noticed how something good can slowly become bad? I’m thinking of things we start for good reasons that end up getting distorted and becoming bad. Here are some examples: In the Bible, the Pharisees, a religious sect of Judaism, aspired to be right with God. They knew the commandments but wanted to […]
You Teach People How to Manipulate Others
I attended a networking event/cocktail hour recently and was engaged in conversation with the woman I was seated next to. She asked what I did and I told her I was a sales trainer for an insurance company. She asked if I had a background in education and I told her I did not. She […]
