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One Million Miles: My Favorite Places

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Gladness and sadness, weddings and funerals, business meetings and baseball tournaments. Fishing trips and horse farms. Cons, thieves, murders, and rip-offs. Airport security and insecurity. Flight attendants, lousy food hot and cold, organized crime, currency exchanges, and slovenly dressed, poorly behaved travelers who do not travel well. Welcome to my world, the world of the […]

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Why Companies Herd Cats

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My friends in the staffing and recruiting profession stay relentlessly busy and vital to their organizations because of a universal reality: Not everyone on the payroll cares about the company paying them. Every organization, small or large, is comprised of good workers, great actors, and others who vacillate between the two. Depending upon how much […]

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Why Good Workers Get Stuck Doing More

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I am proud of my website and readily admit I had very little to do with its design or construction, other than answer questions for a tremendous thinker, Boston’s Steve Bennett. Bennett specializes in author websites. He developed my cocktail napkin design after interviewing me for an hour with my publicist and one of his […]

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How to Connect with People You Meet

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Ever meet someone and click instantly? Or face the opposite problem: struggling to have an easy, unforced interaction? Chances are you’ve done both. A big reason this happens is due to how the mind operates. People tend to think in one of two directions, either concept-to-detail or detail-to-conclusion. Most people can flex from one direction […]

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How I Got My Pen Name

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When my life skills book Managing the Worry Circle was released, I wasn’t totally surprised to receive global radio and coast-to-coast TV requests to talk about it. Worry is a universal subject; we all do it and people tend to be curious about learning why. Far more surprising than interest in the book was the […]

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What’s Your Head: A Castle or Open Bar?

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The more things we invent to simplify our lives, the more complicated they’ve become. With sensory assault bombarding us with relentless velocity from every conceivable direction—and some new ones COMDEX hasn’t unveiled yet—it’s no wonder heads are spinning. Which begs the question, “Is your head getting crowded, too?” Since competition for mindshare is increasing—some of […]

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