by Robert Ringer | Mar 19, 2008 | Family, Lifestyle, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Spirituality, Time Management
I rarely watch a football game on TV from start to finish anymore, but this year’s Super Bowl was an exception. I really got caught up in the excitement of the miracle that unfolded before my eyes. Make that, Giant miracle. But as I watched the multimillionaire...
by Larry Fredericks | Mar 18, 2008 | Careers, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Wealth, Work
The next time you need to get someone on your side, try this unusual persuasion technique: Call him names. I’m not talking about calling him insulting names. (That’ll just make him mad.) I’m talking about a friendly persuasion technique like giving...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Feb 29, 2008 | Lifestyle, Motivation, Self-Improvement, Work
The most important ideas in business – the ones that revolutionize processes – are usually met with resistance, resentment, skepticism, and misunderstanding. To help your best ideas succeed, take this four-step approach: Pre-sell the idea to the power...
by Mary Ellen Tribby | Feb 15, 2008 | Lifestyle, Motivation, Self-Improvement, Work
“Hiring good people is hard. Hiring great people is brutally hard. And yet nothing matters more in winning than getting the right people on the field.” – Jack Welch All the really smart businesspeople I know have exactly the same challenge when it...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Sep 24, 2007 | Lifestyle, Work
“A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.” – Mark Twain What do you do with a chronic complainer, an employee who is always dumping his problems on you? Please note: I’m not talking about the industrious individual who has a rare and...
by Mark Morgan Ford | Aug 31, 2007 | Family, Lifestyle, Motivation, Self-Improvement
“The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.” – Helmut Schoeck ETR reader Greg A. wants to know how to deal with “family or friends that seem to want you to fail… if a great break in...