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Jim Stone is the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Plymouth Rock group of companies. Jim began his career by teaching as a Lecturer in Economics at Harvard, after earning a BA (with highest honor), MA, and Ph.D. in economics…
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In his latest book, Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work, Joseph Badaracco observes, “The soundest guidance for grappling with hard, complex, uncertain practical problems is a set of five questions that men…
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Ben Dunlap is a true polymath, whose talents span poetry, opera, ballet, literature and administration. He is the president of South Carolina’s Wofford College. Ben was a dancer for four years with the Columbia City Ballet, kicking off a life…
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According to Eric Barker, there are ten initiatives that scientific research shows can help improve your life. To read the complete blog post, learn more about him, and sign up for free alerts, please click here. * * * Here…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Shawn Achor for and Michelle Gielan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…
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Many of us believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Simon & Schuster (2016) Here are several “profoundly counterintuitive perspectives on how to become a better person and how to create a better…
Read MoreEdward de Bono is generally credited with introducing the concept of lateral thinking in 1967 and then in a book, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (1970). Vertical Thinking is what Aristotle has in mind in On Rhetoric when discussing what…
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Edward de Bono is generally credited with introducing the concept of lateral thinking in 1967 and then in a book, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (1970). Vertical Thinking is what Aristotle has in mind in On Rhetoric when discussing…
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Five “Key Myths” About a Comfort Zone
Some of the most valuable material in Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence is provided in the Chapter Nine when Andy Molinsky shares his thoughts about what…
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