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Are you a Jerk or a Mensch?
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Are you a Jerk or a Mensch?
Loyal Dog Attends Church of His Deceased Owner Every Day
A German Shepherd Dog who was adopted by a woman as a stray, has been attending the church they visited together every day since she died. The loyal dog named Ciccio was rescued by 57-year-old Maria Margherita Lochi after she found him abandoned in a field near her home in San Donaci near Brindisi, Italy.
It doesn't get much more "heartfelt" thank this.
Fotolanthropy Fotostory: Evan's Family - A Father's Love from Fotolanthropy on Vimeo.
One person’s value is another person’s ROI.
What does this mean?
When you're a company your value is in how well your products and/or services serve your customer's and client's needs and wants; when you're an investor, like Vince Lombardi said about "winning," "ROI isn't everything, it's the only thing."
What fuels this seemingly insurmountable gap?
After feeling put down and pushed away long enough by the world, your mind can sometimes create voices telling you to get in and get even.
Well another tragic shooting and tragic loss of life that again seems so senseless. As a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist I have tried my best to make sense of what, why and when causes Aaron Alexis and other shooters to snap.
This is a work in progress and I invite any and all to refute, dispute or refine what follows.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing - Edmund Burke
Given President Obama taking his case for action to the world and Congress against Syria in response to their use of chemical weapons the above quote might be amended to say, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people become so war weary that they do nothing."
You can't solve a tranformational problem with a transactional solution.
What follows (and I can't attest with certainty to whether the pictures are in the correct order) is what happens when two transactional warriors meet.
Works Well for All Businesses
reprinted from, June 1, 1999, Bottom Line Secrets