When I was a freshman in college I learned an unforgettable lesson.
I was having a rough week when there was a lot to do and very little time to do it. I was overwhelmed. I panicked.
That night a friend stopped by my dorm room. When I told him my problem, he said, "Mac, I’ll […]

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An excerpt from Chapter 15 of Change is Good…You Go First:

Like the gardener, the effective leader recognizes that change takes time to take root. And pulling up the "roots" before the process has matured is a sure way to confuse people, and destroy what has been started. There is a story about a Japanese executive […]

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Note: This is the 4th post in our Change is Good series
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.  -Charles Kettering
If you take away one lesson from our 21-part series, this is it. Every book you ever read about succeeding in business or in life teaches the same lesson. You’re not […]

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-Arthur Koestler
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-e e cummings
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
-Bulgarian Proverb
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
-Al Batt
I don’t know the key to success, but […]

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If Randy Pausch can stay positive, anyone can. It goes to show that mindset means everything, and it really is a choice that you can make to have a positive attitude. He set the tone early on yesterday at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

"If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I […]

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