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Give Your Mind a Workout! 101 Brain Teasers That’ll Improve Your Memory 

July 13, 2020

Here are ten of 101 relatively easy brain teasers compiled by Marilyn Liles for Parade magazine’s website.  If you prefer stiffer challenges, white caps on your gray matter, check out what MENSA offers by clicking here. * * * Did…

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Martin Seligman on “learned optimism”

July 7, 2020

Here’s a portion of a recent blog post by Tom Butler-Bowdon that I am eager to share with you. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * What makes a person pick themselves up after rejection by…

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10 Interesting Facts About The Human Brain

July 6, 2020

Here is an especially interesting item I found at the SCIENCEFIRST website. The more we learn, the more we realize how much we do not know. For example…. The human brain is one of the most important organs in a…

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Six steps for leaders to develop their integrative awareness

July 5, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article Written by Jacqueline Brassey and Michiel Kruyt for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…

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Why “we have to use radiation and chemotherapy to kill the host to kill the cancer.”

June 25, 2020

This election “is no longer about Donald Trump’s tweeting and whining,” conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson told Fox News host Tucker Carlson the other night. Nor is it about “a lockdown, the virus, the economy, [or] foreign policy. It’s an…

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Navigating to the next normal: The first 100 key insights

June 23, 2020

For those executives now trying to decide how to prepare their organizations for “the next normal,”  here is direct access to 100 articles that have appeared in The McKInsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. The firm now makes them…

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Keep Your Reader Front of Mind in Your Writing

June 16, 2020

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. *     *     * Strong professional writing is an essential skill for…

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The wisdom of Confucius

June 9, 2020

Over several decades, I have accumulated quotations from hundreds of sources and Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) is one of my personal favorites. Confucius, also known as Kong Qui or K’ung Fu-tzu, was a Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure. His…

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Books by and about a great president: Harry Truman and David McCullough

June 5, 2020

In Author in Chief, one of the most interesting books I have read in recent years, Craig Fehrman “tells the story of how, when, and why America’s presidents began writing books — and why Americans have been been so consistenty drawn…

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Doris Kearns Goodwin on Turnaround Leadership

June 3, 2020

In Chapter Eleven of Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how Franklin Delano Roosevelt began the first of his four terms as president of the United States in 1932. During the first 100 days, he focused on the…

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