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04/18/18

If I Want Your Opinion, I’ll Ask for It

By Thomas Plante

People love to tell you how to live your life, don’t they? There is no shortage of family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, businesses, and of course, magazines...

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Winning Is the Sum of Small Victories

By Jeff Mitchell

“If winning were easy, everyone would do it.” Any member of a team either at work, school, or in sports has likely run into that quote. Of course, experience...

3 Ways to Prepare for the Future of Work

By Dean Ku M.A. '09

An estimated 85 percent of jobs in 2030 haven’t even been invented yet—that’s according to a Dell Technologies report on technology’s future impact...

Don't Bug Me

By Phil Kesten

There are hundreds of species of bombardier beetle found all over the world. With bits of orange or yellow on a black body, and under an inch long, the...

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What It Takes to Boost Your Entrepreneurial Capacity

By Drew Starbird MBA '84

My friend Dave Aune and I just finished teaching a 10-week experimental course at the Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose. The CET offers...

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How to Avoid Making a Bad Situation Worse

By Hersh Shefrin

One sixth of all the prescriptions written in this country are for drugs produced by the Israel-based pharmaceutical firm Teva. For Teva, that...

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4 Ways to Cope with the People Who Drive You Mad

By Thomas Plante

Recently a therapy patient expressed great upset to me while speaking about her adult son. In a nutshell, he just doesn’t do what she wants him to...

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How a Linebacker’s Call for Soft Bread Shaped Me as a Leader

By Jeff Mitchell

When it comes to learning leadership skills, the best training can occasionally surface in subtle and unexpected ways...

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Blue Moon Rising

By Phil Kesten

The phase of the Moon is constantly changing. On some nights, perhaps tonight, there will be a full moon—a big, bright, circular Moon that lights up the...