The love of money isn’t the root of all evil; arithmetic is the root of all evil. More specifically, counting. Learn how the Oft Acclaimed management tool of counting stuff just might be destroying your life.
A friend asked: What is personal integrity? Does a person have personal
integrity when their personality is integrated, or what?
Interesting question. One meaning is that you act congruently with our values, tell the truth as you see it, etc. This is “integrity” n the sense of having societally-accepted good values like telling the truth and [...]
I’d like to share with you a LinkedIn exchange I had on the topic of whether Being Nice is a good business strategy.
I just had this exchange of answer/email/response on LinkedIn on the topic of: should you be nice?
The original question:
Is there power in being nice, with people in general or as a management tool?I’m reading the new book “The Power of Nice” because it was sent to me by Bzz Marketing. It is quite interesting and [...]
Just returned to the so-called “real world” after a week camping at a festival. Well, car camping. We had running water, a little shack happily selling us gyros, port-a-potties, and garbage collection. So we weren’t really roughing it. But happily, the campground had no internet access or cell phone. So it was a truly un-connected [...]
Wow. Walking through the airport, I saw a sign:
Shell Oil says: When Mother Nature doesn’t back down, we have experts up to her challenge.
Think about that framing! Shudder. That’s the framing of extinction. Mother Nature, dear Shell Oil, is what gives us life. Food. Clothes. Even *gasp* oil.
Maybe we are, indeed, at war [...]
I’ve totally internalized the media images of the Ideal Male Body. Abercrombie & Fitch, galore. So, in a very 21st-century way, I often feel inadequate with my body. Like every time I walk past a mirror. Especially in summer. The amazing thing is that we’ve created these images of beauty for marketing purposes, so people [...]
I’m going to be working with an experienced PBS Producer on how to break into the media. Before we meet, she’s asked me to poll some colleagues as to what qualities make me stand out, and what they find special about me.
Being typical, non-emotional, task-oriented guy, I thought of this purely as a request for [...]
Loved Nora Ephron’s take on email today. You can find it at http://SteverRobbins.com/r/m1nog.
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Have you noticed that people don’t like to say,
“I’m making this decision because it’s convenient for me. It may hurt others. It may even hurt them a lot, but my convenience is more important.”
They don’t like to say it because it forces them to face up to their own selfishness. While I’d love to [...]
