Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 11:19PM 
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.
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9:36PM 
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.
Mark Goulston Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 11:55AM 
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
Mark Goulston Posted on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 10:29AM 
Do you agree with this? If not, what would you change? what would you add?
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 12:22PM Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 11:06AM 
"Every day at least one thing makes you (and your children) smile."
- Harry Glazer
One of my close friends, attorney Harry Glazer, was telling me recently how when his kids are happy he's happy and when they're not, he's not. My wife's version of this is: "You're only as happy as your most unhappy child." I agree with both of them.
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 at 12:53PM 
Simply stated, Republicans and men (especially entrepreneurial/ambitious/successful men) run on adrenaline (which is about power and conquest) and testosterone (which is about aggression); Democrats and women (especially those who are more about family and home than career) run on estrogen (which is about creating and building a home and family) and oxytocin (which is about connecting and bonding with people vs. competing with them).
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 10:00AM 
When you are nearly completely unaware (i.e. clueless) of how you come of to other people and they pick that up, at some level they lose confidence and trust that you can be in touch (i.e. clued in) with anything. If any of this speaks to you or someone you know, I hope the following helps.
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