What is your attitude about growth? Do you believe you can always learn and develop? Or – do you think that, at some point, you are limited based on your intelligence or experience? It turns out that you can be right either way. Research shows that it’s reasonable to assume we have finite intellectual ability. […]

I was listening to a podcast about our brains. The world is learning more and more about them. It’s fascinating stuff. Our brains are proportionally way bigger than the rest of the living beings on earth. As far as we can tell, the size of our brain brings a capacity to be programmed. Meaning that […]

This is a wise list developed by a leader. She calls it a manifesto: a guide to management.  A Manager’s Manifesto (1) Always get the full story before making a decision. (2) It’s incredibly easy to ‘flip the switch’ and start writing people off after a few bad experiences. Resist at all costs. You were a […]

Our maintenance manager in Butner, North Carolina shared a poem his basketball coach would recite to the team back in the day. It’s called “Thinking” by Walter Wintle:   If you think you are beaten, you are If you think you dare not, you don’t, If you like to win, but you think you can’t, […]