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Brainzooming
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Daily articles on strategy, innovation, and creativity.
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The Eighth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Protecting People from Themselves
When Cyndi signed me up to work out with a trainer in 2006, the first meeting included a diet inventory. This entailed listing everything typically eaten throughout the day along with other food and cooking preferences.As the trainer reviewed the res...
The Seventh Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Focus on Other People
Early in college, I'd hit a major rut, dissatisfied with myself and an inability to effectively interact with people who were unfamiliar or encountered during casual situations. It was the first time the challenges many introverts face became overwhe...
The Sixth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Live Out a Positive Life
My dad came back from Ed Foreman’s Successful Life Course in the mid 1980s with a new favorite word, “TERRIFIC!!!” as the all-the-time answer to the question, “How are you doing?”Back then, it was bothersome to me because it was clear he wa...
The Fifth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Creating Ridiculous Growth Opportunities
At a company-first sales conference, we'd scheduled Tommy Lasorda as a surprise second-day speaker. My boss (a very different boss than in yesterday's post) was set to emcee the whole conference, yet at the end of day one, he said, “I have to spend...
The Fourth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - You Can Learn From Anybody
Early in my career, I was struggling with delivering a project in a way that moved our efforts along adequately, even though I had been doing good work. In reviewing a draft with my boss, she asked in frustration, “Do you understand what the functi...
The Third Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Giving the Okay to Challenge Thinking
Early in his tenure, our CEO shared his ten business principles. I don’t remember nine of them, but one stood out for of its simplicity, matter-of-factness, and wide applicability: “Don’t do anything stupid.”I've used this admonition numerous...

