Five (5) Reasons Marrying The Boss's Daughter Will Lead To Disaster.
In a recent interview Michelle Obama admitted that being First Lady is not always the dream job folks assume it is: “One fantasy I have…” Mrs. Obama allowed, “is to walk right out the front door and...
View ArticleAn Apology Should Help You Soar With Eagles, Never Leave You Eating Crow
Mitt Romney really muffed a chance to appear Presidential, evince noblesse oblige, and exude the kind of energizing power Americans are hungering for, when he responded to the Washington Post’s exposé...
View Article5 Ways To Shut Down A Narcissist
For two weeks prior to Facebook’s IPO a stockbroker friend of mine was uncharacteristically unavailable. When I finally got hold of him he apologized: “Every guy I know –and many I don’t, but who claim...
View ArticleDo You Feel Underappreciated? You're Only 5 (Small) Steps Away From Ending...
A few weeks ago at the end of an interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams, David Letterman launched into a diatribe defending President Obama’s record. Pausing for a breath, Letterman asked –to no...
View ArticleThe 7 Habits Of Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs
At this very moment in business schools, libraries, and foundations across America, intelligent men and women are splitting hairs in pursuit of an ironclad definition of “entrepreneur.” These folks, in...
View Article6 Signs You Are Suffering From Guilt And Probably Don't Know It
William Shakespeare, the most brilliant psychotherapist who never once treated a patient, described guilt (in Macbeth) as life’s fitful fever. Anyone who has suffered pangs of guilt knows that the Bard...
View Article7 Reasons Brilliant Ideas Die On The Drawing Board... And How To Overcome Them
This, the second week of Startup Month, will satisfy the hunger of anyone yearning turn a cocktail napkin business plan into a corporation. Anyone, that is, but the person stuck at a drawing board, as...
View Article5 Ways Anti-Competitiveness Kills Teams, And How To Prevent Death By Kumbaya
In business psychology, the importance of a concept determines how actively pseudo-mavens mangle it. Since “entrepreneurial team work” is as central to the success of startups as transmissions are to...
View ArticleWhen A Key Hire Won't Take "NO" For An Answer
One of the key ingredients in the bouillabaisse responsible for entrepreneurial success is perseverance. Getting up when you’re knocked down is, in my view, what distinguishes men like Sir Richard...
View ArticleHow To Avoid The Urge To Strangle Liberals
Human behavior amazes and dumbfounds the heck out of me, which is why I’ve studied it since I was old enough to drive. And while I’ve been able to analyze and explain some incredibly paradoxical...
View Article5 Entrepreneurial Alternatives To "Traditional" (Actually, Insane) Reactions...
Moments after the Aurora, CO shooting spree ended geniuses began weighing in with insights about how we can prevent similar acts depravity from occurring. The one that caught my attention came from...
View ArticleOffice Politics Got You Down? Three Tricks From The Sweet Science
I’m elated that Clint Eastwood, the Oscar-winning director and movie star, has endorsed Mitt Romney. Ever since Romney threw his hat into the ring Team Obama has had him on the ropes, a problem...
View ArticleThe Three Major Ways High Expectations Cause Failure and How To Prevent Them
Look, I don't care who it was. Expectations were way too high.
View ArticleIn Praise of Whistleblowers - Yes, Even Julian Assange
After months of being confined to the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Julian Assange –the world’s most famous, living, self-appointed champion of free speech— emerged yesterday to rekindle the crusade he...
View Article10 Responses To Foul-ups That Foster Success
Mike Maddock, The Idea Monkey, concluded a recent post of his with this observation: Intelligence is learning from your own mistakes; wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. Long ago Henry...
View Article5 Ways Family Business Founders Can Change A "Made Up" Mind
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain…
View Article12 Ways To Feel Psychologically Better Off Today Than You Did 4 Years Ago
Countless gurus make a living identifying and interpreting alleged signs of the Apocalypse, but not me. For no fee whatsoever I will address a revelation I had when I heard the recycled Romney/Ryan...
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