An old axiom suggests that “wisdom comes from experience and experience

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Using a special date such as New Years as a watershed for personal growth

 2. Draw a relationship target.  Place yourself and loved ones in the bull’s eye.  In the second ring, list your best friends.  In the next add good friends, then on to casual friends, and in the last ring associates such as neighbors and colleagues.  Inventory where you spent time last year.  My initial assessment identified that I spent time...

The poem, Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century

A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.   Beowulf , the oldest surviving epic in British literature, exists in only one manuscript. This copy survived both the wholesale destruction of religious artifacts during the dissolution...

As a parent, I know the agony of watching children leave the nest unprepared

—an  opinion they did not share at the time.  There are many pitfalls and traps along life’s way and I wanted to protect them from serious mistakes.  They wanted to leave before I felt they were ready and I tried to hang on long after they’d already gone.  There comes...

An inordinate amount of meeting time is spent solving problems.  Even

so, many organizations experience the ‘recurring issue’ syndrome.  Resources get poured into trying to solve what turns out to a symptom, not the root cause.  This frustration confronts decision-makers all the time.  The answer is not working harder at doing more...