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Habit 4: Think Win/Win Think Win/Win is the first of 3 outwardly focused habit Covey presents in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. These are known as habits of interdependence. These habits are designed to build lasting and meaningful relationships with other people — relationships that are mutually beneficial, based on principles, …read more
Habit 3: First Things First This habit is a critical one, and one that gets a lot of attention. Before we delve into First Things First, let’s take a step back to place this habit in the proper context. Covey’s first three habits are described as habits of independence. They are introspective in nature. When …read more
Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind Covey’s second habit, “Begin With The End In Mind” deals with imagination, conscience, self-awareness and leadership. This habit is based on the premise that in life, all things are created twice. There is the mental creation, or the vision, and then the actual creation, the fruits of that …read more
I started running again. (Please don’t inform me of the over / under on how many days until I quit.) Anyhow, I decided to combine my love for books with my need to exercise in an effort to make the most of each run. I have loaded up some audio books onto my ipod, and …read more
Alright so I am not a big “New Year’s Resolution” guy, but I thought I might take a moment to write about my thoughts for 2009. In 2009 I plan to do more: Goofing Around With My Family — This is really important to me. I have the most awesome family in the world. It is easy …read more
Seth Godin has done it again — written an amazing, fresh, relevant, and useful book I love. This time it is Tribes — a book about the importance of leadership. The book is probably the least “marketing” oriented book Seth has written, focusing instead on addressing the much broader topic of leading other human beings. …read more
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of viewing a speech given to the Columbus Metropolitan Club by Artie Isaac — who among many other things, teaches Creativity to MBA students at The Ohio State University. I was not present for the event, but rather caught it being run on ThinkTV in Dayton as …read more
For my money, the best regularly scheduled networking event in Dayton is the Dayton Chamber Breakfast Briefing. Month after month, the series delivers top notch speakers, attracts a great cross section of community leaders, and offers a chance to break bread and sip coffee while enjoying the picturesque view from the top of the Kettering …read more
How far would you go to help a friend? Would you be willing to have one of your organs removed to save them? No, this is not an intro to a party game about difficult questions, this is a real question — one that was posed to Daytonian Jason Hillard. Listen as I speak to …read more
In 1827 Robert Brown was trying to observe the fertilization process of flowers under a microscope when he noticed slight movements in the grains of pollen, which were suspended in water. “Were the particles alive?” “No, so how did they move?” The answer is Brownian Motion. The pollen on the microscope’s slide was suspended in …read more
