Time for the year-end wrap-up / navel contemplation… let’s start with some general statistics and then move to a more behind-the-scenes / things-to-do perspective: Sum it up According to WordPress, enough people visited this blog this year to fill up Madison Square Garden three times… but most of them did not come to read about [...]
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We’re coming up to the end of the calendar year 2011 and many of us are closing our books. In two more days it will be the end of the financial cycle for most individuals… and many corporations and partnerships, too. Whatever quantity of income we’ve earned — whether in the form of salaries, benefits, [...]
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Imagine a crowd of people is suddenly looking at you… in silence. They are watching… waiting… listening for what you are going to say next. The appearance (or imagined appearance) of so many eyes gazing at you… little dark circles on white orbs which, despite the minute angles involved, you can tell are pointed in your [...]
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After the announcement today of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea’s state media released the following disturbing footage of people demonstrating grief in Pyongyang: As New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch describes it, this “mandatory public crying” perfectly summarizes the cruel methodology used by the North Korean regime to torture and enslave their people completely, body and mind. While [...]
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Being effective is largely a matter of being able to handle paradoxes — or at least balance two opposing thoughts and hold them in an appropriate tension. In other words, part of being effective involves having a high threshold for cognitive dissonance; allowing for interruptions to default thinking patterns; allowing for bouts of agnosticism and unlearning. Or, [...]
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