Category: Risk

Which Half Do You See?

April 1, 2013 by Steve Laswell

“Is the glass half empty or half full?”

Google the phrase and you’ll see Wikipedia places “half empty” in front of “half full.”

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Interesting. Why is the wording not, “Is the glass half full or half empty?”

This idiom promotes a way to explore differing worldviews and illustrates…

Are You a Greedy Monkey?

March 25, 2013 by Steve Laswell

Here’s the short story about The Monkey and The Juggler.

In a mango orchard outside a village there lived a mischievous monkey. The whole day, he would jump from one tree to another. Thus the monkey kept on eating the ripe mangoes. The orchard-keeper tried to trap the monkey. But every time the monkey escaped the trap.

Enter the Safety Zone

March 18, 2013 by Steve Laswell

Step on to the playground and listen. As tensions rise, you just might hear a preschooler or perhaps a kindergartener squeal, “My dad can do anything!”

Flash back to 1946 and hear the battle of the sexes put to music as Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton perform “Anything You Can Do” in Annie Get Your Gun.

Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better…

When will you take the plunge?

October 18, 2012 by Steve Laswell

We all agree that your theory is crazy — but is it crazy enough to be true? – Niels Bohr, to another scientist

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When was the last time you took a “leap…

Steve Jobs – What Did Tim Say?

October 10, 2012 by Steve Laswell

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. – Steve Jobs

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October 5, 2012 Safari opened to Apple’s website and the video started playing. Perhaps you saw it, too, a tribute to Steve…

Navigating the Whitewater of Life

September 5, 2012 by Steve Laswell

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius Quote

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September is a month filled with significant life events in my Story.

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