Executive Retreat Pitfalls

Executive retreats play a huge role in the success of any organization. Yet many people resist them and don’t want to participate fully. This has been very much on my mind because I’ve led a number of strategic planning retreats in the last year and been president of two organizations myself where we used them […]

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Marty Seligman: On Ted and more

My favorite shrink whom I’ve never met is Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism. This book predates Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence, although it ought to be noted as the primer for EQ. Former president of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Seligman is more focused on health than illness. As such, he stands tall among those […]

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Who Really Is The Visitor?

Movie fare has been slim pickings so far this year, with nothing to touch my soul until this last Friday when I saw The Visitor. Oh sure, for fun,  I made it to both Sex and the Cityand Raiders. So what? So what is that I was almost lulled into avoiding movies altogether, based on […]

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