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Practical Advice for Making “Real Change” and “Change Real”
Studies show that only 15% of patients change their life style when they are told by their doctor that if they don’t they will die. It seems that, even in life or death situations, the desire to change is not enough to effect real change. So what is it that holds us back from making changes a reality?

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Essential Keys to Team Success
There are four essentials that govern a team's success - leadership - Goals - Norms - Roles.

A “Knowledge Strategy” For Your Organization
A knowledge strategy is of critical importance to the overall strategy of an organization. It is our collective organizational knowledge that gives us the edge over our competition. “Brain is in… brawn is out.” An organization should determine the value of its collective intellectual capital and market it!
The collective buying power of a franchise
The collective buying power of a franchisor results in getting good discounts for the raw materials. That, in turn, boosts up the profit margin of the franchisees.
Does Midlife Make You a 'Lone Wolf'?
The US scores highest in the world in the realm of cultural individuality vs. collective concern. The result can easily be a nearly unbridgeable isolation.
Green Shoots?
The last 18 months has been about the most pivotal for our collective future since 1945.

Kickstarting a Brand New Team
Especially for a project team or cross-functional task force, there is great downline benefit from addressing, right at the beginning, group process fundamentals such as purpose, leadership, members' agendas, and team operating guidelines (norms).
Creating Emotionally Intelligent Teams
Teams are the most common business unit for high performance. Although the word gets used loosely and not always appropriately, there is universal acceptance that teams create opportunities for high performance results. A team's performance includes both individual results and collective work products, yielding sums greater than its parts. True teamwork promotes individual and collective performance. Effective teams value listening and communicating, sharing work responsibilities, provide support and can make work more social and enjoyable. Members are supportive of one another and recognize the interests and achievements of each other. When they are working the way they should, they are incredibly effective in achieving high performance results.
Leadership Lessons: The "F" Word
Everyone I know regardless of how high they have risen in an organization can tell stories of foolish, disastrous mistakes that came about from built in biases due to emotions. Studies show that emotions, expectations, social norms, and other invisible seemingly illogical forces shape our reasoning ability.

Presentation Round Up - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Looking to stand out in the crowd? Yet still need to 'fit in' to the corporate culture, norms and standards for business presenting? Don't fret. You're not alone. Millions of people grapple with this tough dilemma. What's the right thing to do?
Is China Running Out Of Our Money?
It's been said that the trouble with collectivist economic approaches, such as socialism and communism, is that, eventually, you run out of other peoples' money. If there's a lesson from the last century of adventures in collective statism, I guess it's that the big collective economies only work for a while, and only if there's a bigger free-market economy out there (like ours has been), cranking out growth and creating markets for the rest of the world....
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