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Tag Archives: Expectations

Squeeze Out the Doubt

March 21, 2013

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver. — Tom Peters Exceed expectations! Could be quality; could be quantity; could …

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It Must Ensue

March 14, 2013

“Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are …

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All That Had Gone Before

February 21, 2013

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred …

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What Matters Most

February 7, 2013

Before you cross the street, Take my hand, Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. …

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Tracking

January 14, 2013

Between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very …

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Possibility Girl

November 5, 2012

Everyone thinks Possibility Girl is possibly a genius. Any day now, they continually agree, Possibility Girl will make it big.  …

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Failing the Marshmallow Test

October 22, 2012

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Okay, we all get the gist of this one. …

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Seinfeld’s Problem with Silver Medals

August 6, 2012

I think if I was an Olympic athlete, I would rather come in last than win the silver, if you …

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The 84th Problem

June 11, 2012

There is an old story about a man who came to see the Wise man because he had heard that …

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