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The Complaint Diet: Act or Accept but Never Complain

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30 Methods of Influence: #13 If Offended, Take the Initiative

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10 Ways to Live to 100

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The more complex a system or situation, the more true this phrase is. I am a firm believer in having backups within

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Your Tendency Is Not Your Destiny

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30 Methods of Influence: #12 Give an Understanding Response

12. Give an understanding response. Using the understanding response (reflecting back feeling), three good things happen: 1) you gain increased understanding and

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Is an A Really a B?

Grade inflation is back. After a big episode during the Vietnam war to protect students’ draft deferments, grade inflation re-emerged in force

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Pop-Cap: Looters in Loafers

Simply because something is not illegal does not make it right, moral, or ethical. Much of the economic meltdown that lead to

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30 Methods of Influence: #11 Reward Open, Honest Expressions or Questions

“30 Methods of Influence” by Stephen R. Covey 11. Reward open, honest expressions or questions. Too often we punish honest, open expressions