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The world would be out of balance if it weren’t for the Moms that keep us together. In honor of these wonderful women, we put together a presentation I hope you will all enjoy. 50 Touching Lessons From Nature’s Greatest Moms 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.  6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. [...]

Quality managers have always searched after “willpower” as a needed trait in their teams, but what if “willpower” wasn’t as much a quality someone possesses, but more of a resource people draw from? A recent article by David McRaney at You Are Not So Smart shows that this may be the case. So how could [...]

Hi friends, We have an article up on 12 Most today. We all have to deal with difficult people one time or another.  We don’t always have a choice to just avoid them. So how do you deal? Go read our post to see our 12 Most Productive Ways to Charm Difficult People

How many of you have a LinkedIn profile?  Probably most of you…right? Now, how many of you have been contacted on LinkedIn by someone who found you through search? Probably just a few. But it doesn’t make sense huh? You groomed your profile so it had a compelling headline. You put the keywords you want [...]

When it comes to email, I’m the worst. Every time I open it, I feel like I’m slaying a Hydra.  For every email I respond to, file, or delete, another two pop up in its place. Eventually, I am stuck with an inbox in the thousands, full of messages I need to do something with. [...]

I’m pleasantly surprised to see our first Slideshare presentation make it as the featured presentation on Slideshare.net. Thanks to all of you for sharing it and helping it get the right kind of exposure. We recognized that communication in business can be tough.  The workplace is a menagerie of different personalities, goals, fears, values, and [...]

I don’t like to cry in movies, it feels weird and stupid to get that emotional over a make believe story. So I’m pleased to say only one movie studio has made me achieve this embarrassing milestone. Dang you Pixar! I was with my wife watching UP. Sitting there watching a man and wife getting married, moving [...]

Those fuzzy little insects that pollinate our flowers and sip our sodas when we leave them on the beach might not be the drones we took them for. We always assumed, bees took on whatever role their mighty queen needed them to play, but now research from the University of Illinois shows us differently. Researchers [...]

I’m sitting down at my computer and can’t help thinking about all the campaigning that is currently going on. It seems that every issue imagined is coming up in the debates between the Republicans; energy, health care, civil rights, taxes, and social security. But there’s one issue I’m most concerned about and it could make [...]

As of this morning, we have officially launched The People Profiler. For those of you who may be hearing about this for the first time, The People Profiler is a new web tool that gives you insight on how to connect with anyone you have observed. The way it works is you answer 8 questions [...]