Michael Jordan Quote on Motivation and Success

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Written by Robert Tanner | Copyrighted Material | All…

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Need Help With Innovation? Ask an Uninformed Stranger!

a light bulb placed on a black chalkboard with idea bubbles

Sometimes the best answers for solving a problem come from someone who knows a lot less than you about what you are facing. It’s an innovative problem solving strategy called lack of knowledge and it involves getting the input of a thoughtful but otherwise uninformed individual about the problem you face. They do not have…

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Where Do You Start When Your Employee Fails?

When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur. — Robert Rosenthal and Elisha Babad Employees generally rise to our expectations of them.  This is known as the self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion Effect. It’s true because we treat people a certain way based…

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Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King

Had he not been taken from us so young, being only 39 years old, Dr. Martin Luther King would have been a senior citizen today.  His commitment to non-violent, direct action to address our country’s sad history of race relations is now acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s greatest achievements in the last century.  Dr. King rightfully…

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New Year Quote from Edith Pierce

New Year, midnight

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. Edith Pierce Written by Robert Tanner | Copyrighted Material | All Rights Reserved Worldwide

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