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How to keep quiet politeness from killing your sales, marketing and probably your business.

Self defeating games play a huge role in undermining our mindset. I came across this list in my notes from a course I attended a few years back.

“Sorry I’m late. Traffic was awful!”How many of your meetings start with this lame excuse? You know it’s a cop-out, yet an irrepressible urge makes you take the easy way out

The only thing standing in the way of you creating the life of your dreams is not fear, it is your relationship to fear.

We all know we're supposed to get eight hours of sleep a night. But these days that number seems impossible, right? There's work to do. Books to read. Movies to watch. And Facebook doesn't check it...

I started talking about systems thinking at work, and elicited interest. This is of course good, but I was asked to write something up on different management models. So I decided to do a cartoon i...

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good. The same thing is true of just about anything that matters in the connection economy. A consultation with a surgeon,...

We all want to be happy. But we have preconceived notions or beliefs about what needs to happen in our lives before we can be happy. Maybe we need to get that dream job. Or we need to have a million dollars in the bank.

Are you a creative or an innovator? What’s the difference between creativity and innovation? Creativity deals with original thought, asking “what comes next?” Innovation is about building on what...

Hi :) Today a practical tip for building a Sprint Backlog aka Scrum Board. Why should we have a board? The board main function is to allow team to visualize remaining work (tracking) and facilitate...

on productivity, christianity and other weird stuff

For those of us who suffer with a mental disorder, such as depression and anxiety, we are all too familiar with the funk.

26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Known at 20 Etienne Garbugli Product Design & Marketing Consultant

We hear it all the time, "Our thoughts control our actions" but it often goes misunderstood. We believe our thoughts think us and we don't have a choice but we do. We have made it a habit to follow every thought to completion because of this belief.

Your brain only works with what you've got. Creativity comes from everything you already know. Your brain comes up with original ideas by evaluating existing ones. So, always remember, you get out of...

Mindfulness has been a tool to enable me to step off the treadmill of life and live in the moment. While it remains a work in progress, the effects are life-changing. What is mindfulness? It is a way of being.

Related to fear, low confidence will stop you from doing great things. Ambition the night before shows you want it, but it could be that deep inside you don't believe you'll get the results you want.

A recipe for personal and brand triage... We invest our time in hopes of a return, prioritizing the important, but sometimes, we waste it on the urgent instead. What's worth focusing on improving? How about a combination of these three:...

Years of observing people stumbling over the concept of self-compassion has shown her that we commonly think that treating ourselves kindly will result in being lazy, self-indulgent, and wallowing in self-pity.

Like most people, I have several pet subjects – that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don’t get me started on happiness, or habits, or children’s literature, or

In an article I wrote many months ago (If you haven't read it, I suggest you do, otherwise this post may not make as much sense) I wrote about the fact that money and happiness are not always direc...