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    Zora has “always been interested in psychology.” There are elements of her work that energize her and some that don’t. Listen in as she shares which activities make her feel weak and which make her feel strong.

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Clip Your Wings and Soar

Sticking to a resolution made on January 1st quite often requires you to do things that are counter to your nature; to swim upstream against your native instincts. That’s the problem with resolutions: they generally demand that you to do less of what you love, or more of what you loathe.

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I started writing a monthly column in November 2001. The first two were just emails to about 50 friends but when those folks started forwarding it to

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Strengths Chat - Curtis Yates

My guest this week on Strengths Chat is Curtis Yates, an attorney with Yates & Yates in Orange County CA.

Curtis has a great story about he came to know he should follow his father’s footsteps and become a lawyer. Doing so was something he never thought he’d want to do – but now it’s

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Strengths Chat - Gabriel Aviles

My guest this week on Strengths Chat is Gabriel Aviles, Director of Digital Media at GMCTV.com in Nashville.

Gabriel is passionate about everything he does – listen in to hear him describe activities where he feels especially strong. He’s also candid about activities that drain him.

Strengths Chat is a weekly program featuring interviews with

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Some new ideas are just plain dumb

When we do brainstorming sessions during strategy retreats we usually encourage folks to open up and not hold back. I often use the acronym T-R-I-T-E to help them break their inhibitions.

T-R-I-T-E stands for Taking Ridiculous Ideas To Extremes. And I tell the group that “we are going to explore the outer limits and then

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May I Introduce "Thing One" and "Thing Two"

May I Introduce “Thing One” and “Thing Two”

Two of my clients are approaching change in their organizations from distinctly different perspectives and I think a short discussion of each situation might provide some food for thought to anyone contemplating a shift in their status quo.

Both clients provide goods and services to the business

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