Rick Smith

There are few things more destructive to a team than a no win manipulator. To illustrate, I was just watching updates about the uprising in Egypt on Fox News. The announcer said that Obama had intervened directly in the situation, then asked the panel, “So, did Obama do too much, or ...

Shortly after H. Ross Perot had sold his company to General Motors and joined its board, he made the following infamous observation, “Where I come from, when we see a snake, we kill it. You guys form a committee to study the snake which then hires a snake consultant!” Organizations breed snakes. ...

For my last post, I talked about Procrasturbation, and how we all tend to trick ourselves into underestimating the consequences of putting off a task. This post sparked a direct response from Dr. Piers, whose new research I noted and I had the opportunity to chat with the good doctor ...