How to Ask for a Raise

Show Me the Money

How to Ask for a Raise

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How to Turn Disappointment into Giving Thanks

Disappointment is merely an unmet expectation,
it’s only when you imbue it with negative meanings that it becomes painful

World English Dictionary

dys-

-        prefix

1. diseased, abnormal, or faulty: dysentery; dyslexia
2. difficult or painful: dysuria, dysthymia
3. unfavorable or bad: dylogistic

[via Latin from Greek dus- ]

How many people do you know that handle disappointment well?

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Stuff Your Turkey With Giving Thanks

Why settle for giving a "thank you" when you can give a POWER THANK YOU*?

Make giving thanks the center piece of your Thanksgiving by having each person give a Power Thank You. It has 3 parts:

Part 1: Thank someone for something specific they did for you (it can also be something they refrained from doing that would have hurt you).

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Entrepreneur vs. Homemaker - Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Entrepreneur Spouse: What’s wrong now?

Homemaker Spouse: Nothing.

ES: Why are you in such a sh-ty mood?

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Human Cooling, Global Warming and Childhood Obesity

Bring back that lovin' feeling! - The Righteous Brothers

Are we getting even with an unloving world by taking from Mother Nature and then eating poorly?

Tell me I'm wrong about these twenty two observations:

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Making Affordable Care Doable

Preventing Obama’s Bay of Pigs – Part 1 - From Resistant to Doing to Listening

JFK: What did we do wrong? How did we screw up?
Eisenhower: What you wanted to do wasn’t wrong, but you didn’t have a process.

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From Suicidal to a "Killer" Idea

This is a work in progress.

First check out this article: LA Times: A Breakthrough Moment for Us Both

I’ve been trying to figure out that episode for thirty years so that not only could I repeat it, but so others could too. Along the way to deconstructing it, I not only discovered what happened that got through to this patient, I also discovered the components of what any idea needs to be a big idea.

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Verify, Then Hire

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people.  At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

- Larry Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell and former CEO of Allied Signal

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