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A good leader such as drill instructor turned martial arts instructor Randy Patino, is able to rally the troops to follow him or her to...

The term counterfactual was coined by Nelson Goodman in 1947. The study ofcounterfactual speculation is a kind of mental model to...

To get to the personal application of the lesson, the good stuff, we must first remember what we've learned about how bubbles grow. A...

You have seen the numbers, “80% of new businesses fail within five years” (a myth, it is actually fewer than half). For Americans...

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The thing that makes a company sustainable is its ability to solve a problem or multiple problems which is called creating value, some of...

To be productive one must first achieve a mental state where his or her focus is singularly zoomed in on a particular task. We have all...

Samuel Pierpoint Langley is a guy who had it all. Including a seat at Harvard University, Samuel was a golden boy working on the...

The best essays in my opinion are the ones which challenge people to reconsider the more's and folkways of our culture. People are bound...

I just read a wonderful article about how unknowingly certain phrases, characteristics, adjectives and such give a bad impression to...