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Is Your Success Undermining Your Dreams?

January 4, 2010

“Good is the enemy of great.” This, the opening statement of Jim Collins’ Good to Great, is a primary cause of dream abandonment. You’re good at what you do. You’ve got skills. You meet deadlines. Your projects meet client needs. You bring home a paycheck that keeps you and your family comfortable. It’s so easy [...]

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5 Ways to Get Unstuck Today to Achieve Your Goals

September 22, 2009

Are you stuck in a Geico commercial? You know the one. Unsuspecting men and women are pursued by a stack of money with enormous, plastic googly eyes. “You could be saving money,” the eyes imply with their accusatory stare. Perhaps you’re not being stalked by anthropomorphic cash, but you may very well have a set [...]

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Are you the phoenix? Coping with career challenges

July 27, 2009

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix –Christina Baldwin Every hundred years or so, the mythical phoenix torches itself and its nest, to be reborn anew from a single red egg. The phoenix appears in the mythology of many cultures, and although there are variations on the story, the [...]

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Do you pay it forward? Mentoring and management

May 4, 2009

photo credit: ginnerobot Yesterday while buzzing around the house getting some chores done I popped in the latest movie in my Netflix queue, Pay it Forward. If you’re not familiar with the film, a teacher asks his seventh grade students to develop a project that will change the world, and one student decides to “pay [...]

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