Need An Excuse Not To Change Your Culture?
Oct17

Need An Excuse Not To Change Your Culture?

Um, hold on a second, just let me close the door to my office. The conversation was about to get a bit more interesting. I was on the phone with the Jan, the head of Human Resources of a privately held consumer products company.  The company had notched 102 straight years of profit- until this last year.  It was their first losing year ever. I was working with them to assess their current state, with a special focus on the company...

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Guest Post: A Blessing and a Challenge for the New Year
Jan07

Guest Post: A Blessing and a Challenge for the New Year

Republished with permission from Masculinity-Movies.com by Eivind Figenschau Skjellum (video greeting at the bottom) 2014 has been a year of enormous change and growth for me and most of the people I know and love. If you are someone who is in honest conversation with your life, I bet you’ve had the same experience. We are in many ways in over our heads, with lives full of activity. And while “activity” used to mean that...

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Want More Willpower?  Decide Less.
Feb28

Want More Willpower? Decide Less.

We’re now over one full week into the New Year. Resolutions are being tested. Want to kick a habit?  Study more?  Spend less time on Facebook?   Ever feel like you have a hard time controlling these (or other) urges? If so, you’re not alone. For example, take the American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America […]

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Your Email Is Doing This Better Than You Are
Oct01

Your Email Is Doing This Better Than You Are

by Steve Harper I lived in New York on 9/11. It’s a long story and I won’t go into here, but essentially I was heading downtown on a crowded bus (to work) when the second tower fell. It took me 6 hours to get back uptown to my apartment when I realized my workplace was closed. Buses were packed. Subways weren’t running. Pay phones were out of commission: lines were busy or phones were broken. I didn’t have a cell at the time. What...

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Secondhand Lions
Sep25

Secondhand Lions

Often men in movies are portrayed as somewhat incomplete characters – the fumbling dad in the family comedy, the hard-ass action hero, the angst-ridden sensitive New Age ‘guy’ and so on. What chance does a teenager boy, moving into manhood, have of becoming a Jason Statham-type? (Not that I think it is even desirable) What […]

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In The Event Of A Loss Of Cabin Pressure
Sep23

In The Event Of A Loss Of Cabin Pressure

I was born in 1958, part of a generation where many were raised in accordance with Dr. Benjamin Spock’s book, “Baby And Child Care,” often by parents who didn’t have a similar upbringing to which they could refer for any kind of comparative frame of reference. As a result, at least if my practice is any indication, […]

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