Extreme Common Sense

If you are half a step ahead of a situation, your stress level is minimal. If you are half a step behind, the stress is nearly continuous. I...

Professionals spend years developing expertise. We expect it as one of at least three characteristics that define a profession. Selflessnes...

"You can't possibly win," Mike said as we competed against each other. In the next sentence, he told me why, and I knew he was...

. Would your life be better if you abandoned self-defeating habits and replaced them with others designed to reinforce your success? Obvious...

After writing my blog article What Are You Assuming? (see http://ping.fm/stats/oY5zY ) I found myself thinking more about assumptions peop...

Successful businesses, and for that matter successful people, succeed because they set high standards for themselves. The standards at a fiv...

Several years ago, I was a member of a project team assigned to develop a tool for a custom computer system. At one point, the problem we we...