After reading Crucial Conversations a couple months ago I wanted to also read Vital Smarts’ Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior. It used to be called Crucial…
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Quick Review: Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World
It’s one of my commitments every year, while I’m in the small kid stage of parenting to read a parenting book. I have tended to satisfy this goal of mine through general…
Stats Lie Pt 3: ….Except For When They Don’t
I titled this series “Stats Lie.” And they do sometimes. But sometimes they don’t! Sometimes we do. But sometimes measurements are so clear and so powerfully self-evident that there’s not a whole…
A Team’s Last Line of Defense Pt 2
Now that I’ve laid out the metaphor and context of “A Team’s Last Line of Defense” in Part One, I want to point out that in a team setting there are always…
Try First-Guessing
As a Cub fan I’ve watched a lot of games on WGN over the years. One of the great Cubs announcers for a time was Steve Stone (who now does TV on…