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What is Your Level of Organizational Savvy?

Take this Savvy Test Based on a Real Life, High-Stakes Case Study The foundation for being savvy in the workplace and life starts “between your ears.” This refers to your ability to analyze people, actions, and situations. Savvy awareness leads to better decisions about who to trust and who not to trust; which proactive or…

Drifting From Success/ Analyzing Success

“A professional is not just someone who is good; they know why they are good.” “I want all you young sales people to listen to Marty. I USED TO DO everything he is teaching today.” – Comment from “Sparky”, an older salesperson at a training program in Charlotte, NC. Drifting from Success “I used to…

Healthy Selfishness

While you may have heard more references to “healthy selfishness” lately, we can trace its origins to Erich Fromm’s 1939 essay, “Selfishness and Self Love.” He explained how cultural taboos about selfishness could have some unintended negative consequences for individuals. Abraham Maslow built off of Fromm’s essay and focused on the importance of distinguishing between…

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These short stories describe how I became a zen Buddhist monk in Kyoto Japan at age 20, and how Zen training shaped my approach to executive coaching and lifelong focus on developing human potential.

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