Does email overload help us?
Understanding the importance of costs and benefits
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just fine.
Sure. [...]

Be Thankful; It’s All in Your Mind
A Financial Tailspin sucks! Don’t compound it.
We’re going through some … interesting … times, financially. People feel insecure, established institutions are in desperate need of bailout (funny how attractive socialism becomes when you’re the one who needs the handout) and the world economy seems to be teetering on the [...]

Nightmare or Hope? Your Decision.
You have only yourself to blame for the quality of your decisions. Improve it. Start today.
Are you committed to becoming a spot-on decision-maker who can make great decisions that actually guide your world? Because chances are, your personal decision-making process is no guarantee of that.
We’ve just finished two years of hate-filled, [...]

The Key to Ethical, Sane Behavior
Your little voice may have all the answers you need.
Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute [...]

Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? …

I believed these lies for most of my life. Recently, the conventional wisdom started seeming suspect. I called several mid-career classmates and asked about their successes and failures. Upon close examination, much of what I had believed to be true about careers did not seem to hold.

Update Your User Experience…
Your survival could depend on it!
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Are you up to date with your user experience? I have been coveting my friend’s iPhone. It is true I have both a Palm Pilot and a Blackberry but the iPhone is getting more [...]

Happy or Successful
Which will you pursue?
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Download the “Happy or Successful” diagram that goes with the article.
On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and college and I employed to get where we are today. We assumed that [...]