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  • Here’s A New Year’s Resolution We Can All Keep by Ross Reck

    Here’s A New Year’s Resolution We Can All Keep by Ross Reck

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    While many New Year’s resolutions such as losing weight, getting organized or expanding your horizons can be difficult to follow through on, here’s one that isn’t: be kind.  All you need to do is smile and say something positive to the people you come into contact with.  What you’ll find is that when you smile at people, they smile back–even people who are total strangers!  The same holds true when you say something positive.  And here’s the kicker: you’re the big winner in all this.  If you make it a point to be kind to others, you’ll find that you’re happier, feel much better about yourself, your relationships at work and home will improve and you’ll walk a little lighter and a little taller–you’ll also find the process of being kind a great deal of fun.  So what are you waiting for?  Get out there and start spreading some kindness.  Happy New Year!

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  • Humility Is The Key To Sustaining Success by Ross Reck

    Humility

    There’s a very seductive trap that people often fall into when they become successful.  It goes something like this: Success eventually leads to arrogance where people become taken with themselves and their success.  As a result, they slowly start to alienate the people who helped make them successful in the first place.  Arrogance then leads to feelings of infallibility (I’m way too good to fail) which, in turn, leads to complacency (if things aren’t broken, why fix them?). Complacency then, sets the stage for the person’s downfall where someone eventually does come in and dethrone them which, in turn, leads to humility when the person finally realizes that their downfall was their own fault.  They key to keeping this painful cycle from happening is to remain humble in spite of your success.  If you do, the people who helped make you successful will see to it that you remain that way.

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  • By Risking Nothing, You Risk Everything by Ross Reck

    Risk Everything

    The above quote from actress Geena Davis says it all when it comes to living a meaningful life.  Taking a risk is one of the few “no lose” situations that life has to offer–if we succeed, we’re happy and excited, and if we fail, we learn from the experience which makes it much more probable that we’ll succeed the next time around.  On the other hand, if we take no risks, we stop growing and life begins to pass us by–there is no more learning and no more excitement.  When I find myself in a risk averse mood, I think of the following quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “Far better is it to dare mighty things than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in that gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”  It puts me back in touch with what life is all about.

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  • There is a Way to Pay for a Nationalized Health Care Program that Would Make Everyone Happy by Ross Reck

    Right now, nobody seems to be happy with President Obama’s proposed health care program.  The doctors don’t like it because it stresses cost containment which would interfere with their individual prerogative to practice medicine the way they feel it should be practiced and it would also make it that much more difficult for them to get rich while practicing medicine.  The pharmaceutical companies don’t like it because it means less profit for them.  It’s the same with the hospitals. The tax payers don’t like it, because it’s going to cost them a bundle.  There is, however a way to fund this expensive program that will make everyone happy-fund it with the profits from government run companies.  The federal government already owns controlling interest in GM and Chrysler.  Why not funnel all the profits from these two companies into the President’s health care program.  The government should also get back into the banking business and funnel those profits into the health care program.  It should then buy large amounts of stock in companies like Microsoft, Nordstrom, Cisco Systems, Starbuck’s, Wegmans Food Markets and funnel those profits into the President’s health care program.  Pretty soon, you have enough non-tax payer money to fund a first class health care program that would make everyone happy.  Citizens would have complete access to the best health care in the world; doctors would continue to maintain their independence and would be able to pursue their dreams of accumulating vast amounts of wealth.  The pharmaceutical companies would continue to make money hand over fist as would the hospitals.  And, all this would happen at no cost to the tax payer!  What’s there not to get here?

  • Ross Reck: Abusive Bosses Are a Luxury No Business Can Afford

    Ross Reck: Abusive Bosses Are a Luxury No Business Can Afford

    People
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    We’ve known for nearly a century that the better you treat people, the harder they’ll work. It’s a pretty straightforward relationship. This being the case, it seems logical to conclude that the job of every team leader, supervisor, manager and executive should be to treat their employees as well as possible so they become excited about coming to work and applying their best efforts toward performing their jobs every day. Unfortunately it turns out that such behavior is the exception rather than the rule.

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