After a long day of entertaining houseguests, doing housework, and — oh yeah — writing, I checked my e-mail and found the most delightful note from freelancer Karen Abalos, thanking us for the advice we dispensed in The Renegade Writer. She wrote, “With your advice (and a little bit of luck and hard work) I [...]
Archive for July 12th, 2006
Jul12
A Small Change
In Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press, 2001) by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., the authors note that “the difference between someone whose performance is acceptable and someone whose performance is consistently near perfect is very slight.” For example, in baseball if you hit the ball 270 times for every 1,000 plate [...]
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