Experience and attachment always influence perceptions.  I’ve fallen victim to shortsightedness on numerous occasions in both my personal and professional life, and you might venture a guess that it rarely produced positive outcomes.

As synchronicity would have it, I was reminded of my current level of frustration and subsequent closed mindedness when I sat down one Saturday afternoon to view a favorite movie of mine.  Here’s the clip that ...

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
- George Bernard Shaw

The Human Connection in Action

The school year had just begun and Linda was already overwhelmed. Not the regular “overwhelmed”, but the kind that occurs when a teacher realizes she has a particularly challenging class.  So Linda turned to her good friend ...

In the late 1800’s, economist Vilfredo Pareto posited a law of income distribution that would later bear his name: Pareto’s Law.  Today, in its more generalized form, the law states that 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.  Research over the years has shown this law to be proven in almost any setting.  Let’s take a closer look at a variation of the law as ...

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- Einstein

In the mid 1960’s, a lanky teenager named Dick Fosbury was working on his high jump technique with limited results.  At that time, the “correct” method for high jumping was known as the straddle method.  It’s an obvious technique whereby the jumper approaches the bar head on, kicks one foot up over the bar and ...

I’m a big advocate of new marketing models that cost little and yield big returns, but I am not naive.  Sometimes you need to invest more than you think to get to where you want to be.  This doesn’t necessarily mean you need to spend more money (although in some cases it might).  It could mean becoming more efficient in order to free up your time to do ...

You and I live in a fast paced and highly complex world.  So much information, so many choices… so little time.  How do people make sense of it all?

If we were to process everything that crossed our path and analyze it thoroughly we wouldn’t have time to do much else.  Somehow and someway we need to make judgments and decisions using a more selective process.  And, according to ...