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Better

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“I’m better now.” That’s what my two-year-old says, clutching his Ghost Frog (there on the far right…), after a spill, or a tantrum, or a kiss for real and imagined wounds. It struck me the other day, when he said it, that that’s how I want to be able to Read more »

Friday Fun: The Buzzword Graveyard

This morning, I tweeted that I really need to petition for the death of the phrase “game-changing”. It’s so overused, and most often complete hyperbole. We do that a lot in business, don’t we? Personally, I wish for Brass Tack Language: choosing words that actually say what you mean, without Read more »

What do you believe?

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Beliefs. Tenets. Base assumptions. Even though they affect everything we say and do, we don’t stop very often, if ever, to really examine them. But they’re there. We’ve each lived so long with our beliefs that they’re virtually inseparable from who we are. We unthinkingly assume our beliefs are the Read more »

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