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A Bountiful Life Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
Perhaps the most gratifying way to hone one’s talent is to use it in support of someone who is diligently working on a dream project. Those who work hard on something new tend to appreciate unexpected...
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Where Does Your Kind of Humor Get You With Others?
“Wall Street swindler Bernie Madoff failed to protect his assets with a bankruptcy motion. His lawyer tried to get all charges dropped. He argued that Madoff is no longer a threat to society because...
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Your Key Skill to Thriving in an Uncertain World
The shocking moment for rising stars is when they meet someone who’s rising faster. For some of us this happens in fourth grade, for others it’s in college or on a job. The good news is that you’ve...
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Use Humor to Defuse Tension, Befriend and Have More Fun
Humor requires a target. If you make a bulls-eye out of someone weaker, particularly if you initiate the attack, you look like a bully. Take aim, instead, at the powerful. Or, rather than getting...
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See the Power of Teamwork and Play – in Entertaining Ways
Hear and see the beauty of teamwork in this gently corny video and this beautifully startling one. Then watch this contagious public dance and this huge singalong. Me to We in action can lift our...
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Don’t Just Talk, Take a Walkabout – With Others
Brisk early morning walks along the Sausalito waterfront as the sun comes up over Angel Island are somehow sweeter, when shared with a friend or three. Walking in step in the fresh air, pointing,...
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Five Ways to Bring Others Closer
Even though we know we are more likely to savor life and attract more opportunities to collaborate when we click with others, we often get in our own way – especially when we are distracted or worse....
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Why Waiters Cried Serving Breakfast
After a priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior one afternoon to ask, “Would you mind if I smoked while praying?” and was, not surprisingly, turned down. Yet how one makes a request has...
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Gut Instincts Quiz: See How to Get Along Better
How well do you understand how gut instincts influence your likes, dislikes, and even your attention span? Want to find out? Here are nine questions. Some of the answers may surprise you. 1. Do people...
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Seven Ways to Sway Others
Marshall wasn’t aware that we were closely watching him as he strode into the pool table showroom but he was the ninth unwitting participant in our experiment. He glanced at the sign “Our Three Most...
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