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Insight: Capacity to discern the true nature of a situation
There is information and there is insight. Today, people have too much information. And they can find information anywhere. What they come to you for is insight. Here are the definitions of insight: Capacity to discern the true nature of a situation. The act or...
World Cup 2014 – and Our Presence of Mind
World Cup 2014 July 1 Argentina v Switzerland - The Knock-out Round The first half - A fast paced game with equal possession. Many shots on goal by both teams. The ball is skillfully moved by Argentina up the field to the Swiss goal. Lots of expert passes. DiMaria...
How Rafa Stages a Comeback?
In the Grand Slam Tennis tournaments, it is anyone's game. Yesterday, Rafael Nadal won his ninth French Open title. That record looked under threat when he dropped the first set as his usually fearsome forehand let him down. I waited "around" on the TV until after the...
Devise content – rather than write content
To DEVISE is “to imagine, to compose, to suppose, to guess, to purpose, to mediate, to describe, to depict, to scheme, to contrive...” Last week, I was getting a client ready to get up in front of a crowd of 1000 or more people to introduce a much beloved celebrity. ...
What an Expert Doesn't Say – a rant
You know those people who make a career of going to funerals? Well, I go to presentations - panels, conferences, speeches, readings, performances, the like. An occupational hazard. Here goes my rant. Everyone wants to be seen as an Expert in their field. Right? Then...
A book recommendation: Breakthrough reached by reading this book
Do you get a book recommended to you almost every day? I do. How is it humanly possible to keep up with all that reading? There was one book recommended to me on a Monday and I read it by that Friday - and by reading it, I had an earth-shattering realization: I only...
