__Where Have All the Leaders Gone__August 23rd, 2008__AdsSpy: 314 sites by this AdSense ID ____I find it disturbing that in many businesses these days we find an obvious lack of leadership. We can find managers everywhere, but no real leadership. What ever happen to independent thinking and risk taking? - Read more

__Fire Your Analyst (Part II)__August 24th, 2008__AdsSpy: 314 sites by this AdSense ID ____A recent study (Rothwell, P.M. and Martyn, C.N. Reproducibility of peer review in clinical neuroscience: Is agreement between reviewers any greater than would be expected by chance alone? Brain 2000 123:1964-1969) measured the level of agreement between reviewers of manuscripts submitted for publication in a scientific journal. These reviewers are usually professors in universities with extensive expertise in the subject of the reviewed manuscript - Read more

__Performance Management - By Assuming Nothing__August 25th, 2008__AdsSpy: 314 sites by this AdSense ID ____Unhappy as Jenny undoubtedly was, she held on very tightly to her job. After all, she had worked her way up over the years to the supervisory role she was in - and she wasn’t going to let go. Yet it was clear that she was unhappy, under pressure and unsure of what she could do to make things better. For her business and more so, for herself. For me, she was letting me down in a number of ways and my inability to resolve her performance had, for a while, been my Achilles heel in the view of my boss too. - Read more

__Butterflies Hitting Home Runs Choice vs. Chance__August 26th, 2008____AdsSpy: 314 sites by this AdSense ID ____How does one become a butterfly?____You must want to fly so much that you are____willing to give up being a caterpillar.____~Trina Paulus____I was talking with my good friend Tom Hanson the other day and the topic of “choice vs. chance” came up. Tom is a sports psychology coach (you can see all about him at www.FocusedBaseball.com) who has an extensive history of working with professional baseball players to improve their “mental game”. - Read more

Don’t despise the scraps of time or anything else in your life. Instead, use them to help achieve your goals and transform the way you live. - Read more

There are a number of easy steps to creating the reception you really want for your wedding. At first the task of organising everything seems daunting but when it is broken down it is relatively easy and with careful planning and timing it will be mostly stress free. - Read more

Shortly after the twin towers of Babylon fell, a frightened nation wrung__its hands in frustration. What should we do? The answer given was to shop. That is the duty and purpose of consumers. - Read more

Don’t despise the scraps of time or anything else in your life. Instead, use them to help achieve your goals and transform the way you live. - Read more

Don’t despise the scraps of time or anything else in your life. Instead, use them to help achieve your goals and transform the way you live. - Read more

Public relations for fast food franchises and eating establishments of this type are so vitally important to on-going sales and those fast food restaurants, which concentrate on a positive community goodwill image, do best over time. - Read more

A common mortal from a developed country would be hard to convince that in Southeast Asia and Africa, diarrhea is responsible for as much as 8.5% and 7.7%, respectively. Yet this is the stark reality. Diarrhea is mostly caused by gastrointestinal infections. About 2.2 million people globally die of gastrointestinal-induced diarrhea. The bulk of these are children from developing countries. These are countries that lack clean drinking water- the major cause of gastrointestinal infections. - Read more

There are few things in life that are nicer than going for a picnic. You take some food and drink and your friends or family somewhere nice, and then just relax: eat, drink and be merry. - Read more

It’s amazing how many people continue to entertain the notion that we Black Americans are all alike. Instead of believing what their eyes see, and what their total life experience clearly has taught them, many believe that we all think and behave the same. Whether this is a reflection of erroneous teaching passed down through generations, ignorance - or both - the phenomenon intrigues me.__So listen up… No, all of us don’t respond well to the accented greeting “What’s happenin’ brutha?” at the corner store - especially when we just heard you say “Hello, how are you today?” to the previous three non-Black customers. And no, we all don’t like chitlins. At least I don’t. I was a chitlin’ hater before I ever saw one. Check this out… - Read more

A food lover’s delight, an ecstasy for the taste buds; there’s no denying the fact that the turkey makes for a great dinner - one that all food lovers would look forward too. Every year on Thanksgiving this bird sends the taste buds of 95% of Americans into raptures. Even as we savor the turkey there are interesting facts about this about this bird that we often don’t care to take note of. - Read more

Why do they need 3 Special Reports. It seems that the Department of Defense, the Congress, and the President are all going to do special reports on what went right and what went wrong with regards to the government response to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Victims. Before this is over I wouldn’t be surprised if the State Governments also launch Investigations. - Read more

Most people don’t consider how hard their brain works for them every day. We are usually focused on the rest of our body and unfortunately, we do not know how to properly care for our hard working brain. - Read more

Summer has arrived! Woo-Hoo! Do you know what always comes along with summer? Well, besides the bugs! Weddings! Yeap, that’s right, Weddings. But I’ve got an other one for you. Years after all those wedding what else comes in summer? Nooo, not divorce, Anniversaries. All those people who were married are now going to celebrate their Wedding Anniversary. Congrats! - Read more

The cause of terrorism is ignorance. The cause of war is__ignorance. The cause of poverty is ignorance. The cause of violence is__fear. The cause of fear is ignorance. The cause of hunger anywhere, is__ignorance. But ignorance is bliss and what you don’t know can’t hurt you.__Cursed be the lips that utter such great lies! - Read more

Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 14, 2003____I have a very important question. My wife moved out of the house last year with our young son and daughter. We have done some excellent counseling and made excellent progress. She actually moved back home two weeks ago. You can’t believe the relief. - Read more

Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 14, 2003____I have a very important question. My wife moved out of the house last year with our young son and daughter. We have done some excellent counseling and made excellent progress. She actually moved back home two weeks ago. You can’t believe the relief. - Read more