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Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Talk to me!
This year’s American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting theme is communication – and it’s a winner. Talk about hitting a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Gamers! Uncle Sam wants you!
And so do John Bull and Johnny Canuck. Mother Europa, Germania, Hispania, and Marianne want you. Bharat Mata and PakWatan...
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And Speaking of Fun…
by Steve Ackerman, Annual Meeting Co-Chair Raj concluded a posting about communications themes at the Annual Meeting by saying, “Have...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Playing poker against the real world? Definitely lose-lose.
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Placing trillion-dollar bets? How much would you pay to shave the odds?
Get used to trillion-dollar figures. Those are the numbers that matter these days. A billion dollars? A drop in the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Leaders, do you want to make your workers more effective? Then lighten up.
All too often, today’s leaders feel isolated, beleaguered, exhausted, pressured, stressed. The key to being more effective? Doing less. Early...
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The Most Difficult "Way of Knowing": Listening
by Raj Pandya, Annual Meeting Co-Chair The theme of this year’s annual meeting is communication, and I think one of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is thirty-seven years old, as I am, and compromises what he believes in or knows to be...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Civility. Let’s hope it’s contagious!
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs 15:1 KJV Five reasons for tackling this topic now, and in this blog:...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The leader should rarely be a problem solver.
Don’t believe this? Or maybe you’re disposed to say, scornfully, “sad but true?” Both these extreme reactions might seem natural...
