Standing Up to Dominators

It’s a fact of life that some of the world’s most productive, decisive, influential, and successful people are also “dominators,” people who are supremely self-confident, direct (or even blunt), hyper-assertive, and too-often impatient with others. While people with these personality traits are

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Jog Your Memory

It pays to be mentally sharp. The more facts and figures you have at your fingertips, the more you know about specific situations, the more you recall past experiences and outcomes, the easier time you will have understanding the problems and opportunities

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Gear Up for Success: Part 3

As I have written previously, here, and here, in a perfect world, you’d get all the success you deserve without any struggle. Rewards would readily come your way whenever you did the work to earn them. But the present world often requires

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Building More Trust

In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of building trust, and I mentioned various ways to do this, including cultivating such traits as: honesty, closeness, and exhibiting trustworthy words and deeds. On thinking more about building trust, I’ve realized since

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Solving Some People Problems

As I’ve suggested more than once, your level of productivity and success is intimately tied up with the people around you, and with the ways you’re able to interact with them. Their preferences and characteristics help to shape your experiences and opportunities.

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Improve Your Decision Making

It’s interesting that one of the most complex things we ever do – at least within the world of productivity and success – can be done in a tenth of a second without any conscious thought. I’m talking about decision-making. We’ve all

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Push Your Ideas Forward

When was the last time you had an interesting idea? Note that I’m not asking about a “good” idea, just an interesting one. The reason for the distinction is that a “good” idea is one that fits well with the needs, wants,

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Upgrade Your Personal Characteristics

It’s really all about people. Your ability to relate to people is not only instrumental in determining the scope and quality of your connections, but it’s also critical to feeling good about yourself and maintaining a high level of success in your

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Energize Every Effort

There was a Seinfeld episode in which Jerry’s dad was working at a job Jerry opposed. To get him fired, the plan was to schedule lots of late afternoon meetings, because the old man would naturally be tired by that time of

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