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Do you know what it means to have 20/10 vision? To be able to see things clearly at 20-feet, that other people can only see while standing 10-feet away — literally having a bird’s eye view of your world.

What would it mean for you to have 20/10 vision in your life? Can you think of how much more you could accomplish with this level of attention and motivation in 2011?

Focusing on your vision will help increase your confidence, so you’ll be able to meet your current challenges; plus you’ll learn to anticipate and sidestep new roadblocks that might pop up throughout the year. One way…

With an unprecedented 278 women running in Senate, House, and Governor races this year, 2010 has aptly been dubbed “the year of the woman.” Look closer and you will see that this surge of women is led by a number of businesswomen throwing their hats into the political arena.

In California, Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard is the Republican nominee for Senate, and Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, is the Republican nominee for Governor. Across the country, Linda McMahon, former head of World Wrestling Entertainment is the Republican Senate nominee in Connecticut. Alex Sink, who…

Just caught myself out.

I read an article about Gen Y’ers. The article made the assertion that this group of individuals has a particularly egregious trait. The article suggested that all Gen Y’ers are narcissists.

I kept reading because I was intrigued. I wanted to know what the author meant by ‘narcissist.’ And I wondered if it was possible to so stereotype a group of people. I noticed too how irritated I was. Now that’s weird – it was just an article.

Reading further, I found no definition of narcissism. Hmmmm.

Then I asked myself if it even made sense that 10, 20 and 30 yr…

Reviewed By T. U. Dawood

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist was one of those life-changing books that contain poignant words of wisdom. In it he espoused that when one is on one’s true path, the entire universe conspires to expedite the process and make one’s dreams come true.

Inspirations, Coelho’s latest work, sheds light on the author’s own life path, particularly the journey that made him the bestselling writer and philosopher that he is today. In the book he has arranged his selections from classic literature into four sections — water, earth, air and fire — which reflect the four eleme…

The human side of enterprise is any gathering of people for a specific purpose. That’s it. It’s not more complicated than that.

(And if you believe that I have a bridge in…:)

Let’s give this a go and take a look at the parts. At the macro level, the enterprise is the business; at the micro level, the enterprise is a meeting, as in a leadership team meeting, a board meeting, and so on.

The purpose of the gathering is the “IT” – the driving force behind why we showed up in the first place. At the business level, the IT or ITS (plural) is to be, do or have the mission of the busin…

Compassion is not simply for chaplains, counselors or churchgoers; it is for all as we are all members of communities. As someone who has been given, what I now determine to be the blessing of being out of full time work, I am using the time I have to glean life lessons that I can share with others.

Though I am a staunch defender of Gen-Y, I believe every generation, including my own, could use a dose of compassion. What is compassion? It is awareness and sympathy for another’s suffering. The attitude, “It did not happen to me, therefore it does not affect me nor matter to me,” is quite…

This week’s post is the first in a series that speaks to new ways of being in our corporate settings. This information is derived from the many old Indigenous People’s Ways, and I share them with deep respect for these Ways. All of these systems and approaches are designed to bring about harmony and balance, particularly in communities that are in dscord and disruption.

Sounds like the job arena to me, how about you?

The Talking Stick Ceremony. Here is a “hypothetical” situation. A very toxic division is stymied by discord, the individuals have long since stopped respecting each oth…

Ever hear the old joke about three men who are playing golf and telling each other all the things they had to promise their wives in order to get there? The list of honey-do’s is long, until finally, one guy says, "I didn’t have to promise her a thing. I just set the alarm for 5 am, and when it went off, I rolled over and said, "Golf course or intercourse? and she said, “Wear your sweater.”

This week’s tip is about trade offs and it’s called the ‘100 Pennies Rule.’

It’s a super simple, often overlooked, methodology. You learned it when you were a kid. Remember when your Dad said, …