Archive for August, 2012

The high cost of discount thinking.

When I was in high school, I heard a story on the radio, which has stayed with me for over twenty years.  The short version is that a young man from the country went to Cornell to get his degree in agriculture. When he returned home, he saw a neighbor hard at work on his farm.  The young man said to the older farmer, “You know I can show you smarter ways to improve your yield and rotate crops for ...

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Don’t own your problem, pass it on.

One of my favorite writers and thinkers is Dan Pink. This Summer, Dan has sequestered
himself in a office somewhere in Virginia –steadily working on his new book:  To Sell is Human:
The Surprising Truth about Moving Others.

Recently, Dan wrote Flip — 16 Counter Intuitive Ideas About Motivation, Innovation and Leadership. At the end of this blog, I will show you how you can get a copy from Dan’s Website.

Dan collected and refined this manifesto ...

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