Today’s post concludes my three-part series on Change. In Monday’s first installment, I simply wrote about the need for it . . . and not to be afraid of it. In yesterday’s second installment, I urged you to Fail Forward, to not be afraid to fail, and to learn from your mistakes. Today‘s concluding installment is all [...]
I’m an optimist. That’s why I paid close attention to a recent article in BusinessWeek entitled, “The Curious Paradox of ‘Optimism Bias’”, by Professor Dan Ariely (Behavioral Economics, Duke University). In this short article, Ariely accepts that America is mostly a land of optimism. And he notes this optimism has built quite a place. But [...]
I’m an optimist. Amercia has never had a shortage of optimists. So says Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City and Founder of Bloomberg, LP (Bloomberg is the leading provider of financial news and data to corporations and institutions). The Mayor was cited recently in BusinessWeek in a short piece he authored entitled, “The Vibrant [...]
I’m an optimist. Why? After all, people have been all over me during this recession that I’m out of my mind. How do I put this? Well, how about this, direct from Winston Churchill: “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” Or this, from Peter Ustinov: “Being an optimist is to believe [...]
I’m an optimist. So when my good friend, Mike Burger, founder and owner of Michael Burger & Associates Appraisers, sent me a passel of recent BusinessWeek articles collectively entitled, “The Case for Optimism”, I bit. I’m glad I did, because they are really good at helping me ground my own reasons for hope…so good, in fact, [...]
