Behaving with impeccable manners is one of your strongest strategies. It builds and sustains your reputation, which as an entrepreneur or a consultant is your most valued asset. Your reputation precedes you in all new introductions, with prospective clients, and with existing clients and colleagues who speak of you.
There is great power in excellent manners. [...]

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The Chinese New Year arrived late this year, and fell on our Valentines Day, February 14th 2010. Year of the Metal Tiger, this day heralds, “For all affairs, great good luck!”
I have a long connection to Chinese culture (from early exposure to the iChing to building a company in Shanghai in the 1990s), and [...]

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
- T.S. Eliot
My friend ~
You will make many new beginnings and many ends, and more new beginnings.
And you will find one voice, then another, and another, with each new beginning. And no [...]

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Every year, in the early weeks (or the very end) of each year, I sit down with my calendar.
Now, I know we all have electronic calendars, and I also have a large A4 British type paper calendar in which my life is documented each year. I have many of them in my files from [...]

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On January 2nd (2010), I received the one holiday card I wait for each year, from my delightful and irascible friend, a wonderful writer, who lives her life to the fullest, with attitude. I want to quote from it:
“What can I say about 2009? It was a horrid year of financial fear but [...]

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It is holiday time for nearly everyone, the celebration of mid-winter, the passing of the Solstice and the shortest day of the year, and a looking forward to a new Spring in the New Year.
In the spirit of celebration, gatherings of rejoicing to have survived another dark time of the year, and all the religions [...]

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Long ago I realized folks saw the world through their own world-view – the glass was half-full, half-empty, half-full and bubbling with opportunity, or half-empty and poisoned. I believe there is little hope of changing these contexts after, say, the age of six. Once I heard a rumor that the Catholic Church said, “Give me [...]

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There comes a moment in most startup ventures when you, the CEO, wake up in a cold sweat and face your fears that failure is near. Seeing anew all the time, investment, financial risk and doubt you have overcome in the last year or two, fear gets past your barriers sits on the bedstead.
The response [...]

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I was thinking about the oldest living people – a man in India, a woman from Georgia (U.S.A.), a woman in Japan.  Good genes, I guess.
And good living, I thought next.
Balanced living.  Work hard, play hard, rest well, give what you can, love where you must and where you may, and let some folks take [...]

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[Y]ou are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, [...]

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