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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 20, 20071 topic

Hope & The Gnostic Gospels

Of late Iâve turned to The Gospel of Thomas. Itâs taken the privileged top position on my night-stand, on which rests a mini-library of spiritual books ranging from A Course in Miracles to Ram Dassâ wonderful Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita. I read these texts exhaustively because Iâm on a passionate quest to know God. Have been all my life. Admitting this sets me up for scorn and disbelief, both from people who know me and have endured my foibles, and from peo

Primary topic: Religion

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Raising Kids In The Country

Arriving in the middle of the countryside fresh from the city with a young family, it is fair to say I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I grew up in the city; the countryside was something you saw on TV if there was nothing on another channel. As an adult, I believed the city to be my right, my natural home. You might spend a week in a holiday cottage somewhere green, and usually wet, but that was as far as it went. The countryside, my dear, was another place.nnM

Primary topic: Family

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 18, 20091 topic

There Are Times When You Should Move On

Sometimes we have to be patient and sometimes we have to get moving. Wisdom is knowing which time is which and when to do what. I know, easier said than done. But we all know when we've exhausted certain possibilities -- and quite possibly ourselves -- in the course of finding out. Wouldn't it be great to know everything first?nnThat could save a lot of time. One way is to train your brain to do some assessing first. Do the "scenario" test: What if I quit this job, what would

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 22, 20081 topic

Guilt-Free Mindfulness

Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. Well-known mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, defines it this way Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. I also like to think of mindfulness as the art of inhabiting your own life with kindness and acceptance.nnWhen first entertaining the idea of practicing mindfulness in a conscious, committed way, I had mixed feeling

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonFeb 7, 20081 topic

Caution!The Completion Myth: Romantic Relationships In Your Twenties

Romance. We are all suckers for it (yes, even you guys--you know what it leads to!) Images of romance surround us: the couple holding hands at Starbucks, the gazillions of bridal magazines you breeze past on the way to buy toilet paper, or the frolicking couples on billboard perfume ads. Newsflash: real people donât do this.nnSince most twenty-somethings are entering their first serious romantic relationship, expectations of what itâs supposed to be like are fueled by adv

Primary topic: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 26, 20091 topic

What is This Pain?

It starts as tightness in the upper solar plexus. Then it starts to droop like the top of an ice cream cone on a hundred-degree day, eventually melting over everything to form a vague coating of ambivalence. Sometimes it matures into hopelessness and, for some, even depression. The "it" is the yearning for meaning. And it can swallow you whole.nnI started to feel it in my twenties as I struggled to cling to my dream of being a Broadway star while entering what would be my sev

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 30, 20081 topic

Do We Have To Talk About The Lapel Pins Again?

When it comes to international issues, a lot of Americans aren't on top of the details. In 2007 only 36 percent of Americans could name Vladimir Putin as the leader of Russia, although maybe he's raised his profile here recently by pummeling Georgia into the ground. Let's not even speculate about the number of Americans who initially thought there were Russian armies headed to Macon. Presumably that's been cleared up by now.nnBut since so much of the voting public is so hazy

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 1, 20081 topic

The iPod

He strolled into the room and quietly laid his books on a desk. Class would begin in about three minutes; soon the teacher would be droning on about something utterly irrelevant to his life. Entirely removed from his surroundings, the small plastic gadgets in his ears piped in the words that resounded repeatedly in his head, chorusing the ideas that he has heard about sex and violence and crime -- and women. Vulgarities and obscenities that had always been forbidden in mainst

Primary topic: Teenagers and Parenting

Teenagers and Parenting

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 19, 20071 topic

The Most Important Business Multipliers

#1: Mastermind PowernnOne of the secret strengths of Maui Millionaires is the power of the mastermind. A mastermind group is a group of two or more people who come together to work on a common goal in the spirit of focused harmony and trust, where all members benefit. The skill of masterminding is so essential that we devoted an entire section of our last book, The Maui Millionaires, to it.nnLevel Three business owners have learned that they donât have all the best answers

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMay 7, 20081 topic

Service and the Economy

We are a service economy. Close to 80% of our GDP is service based. In a marketplace wrought with problems and concerns over the economic downturn, one must wonder how we will pull ourselves out of this fiscal malaise, when our primary source of business results from how we service what others manufacture.n nNever will service be a more considered factor in securing and maintaining business relationships. In these troubling times relationships will be tested, and I predict on

Primary topic: Business Consulting

Business Consulting

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 2, 20071 topic

Part 1: Shock- Book Excerpt

All right, so I listened to my wife. After all, I've been doing it for nearly forty years, I should have stopped now? Boy, is she going to feel guilty. nnSo there I was standing at the corner of Fifty-seventh Street and Park Avenue, minding my own business, waiting for the light to change. My mission was to buy blue shirts, Jane insisted that I buy more blue shirts, they bring out the color of my eyes, she said, they give me a little color. My luck, there was a sale at a fanc

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 13, 20071 topic

Know Who You Are

Hereâs the toughest question that most companies canât answer: âWho are you?â This means trouble. Itâs trouble because if they have no sense of who they are, whatâs really important, and what the point of it all is, they are going to find it difficult to compete with a competitor who has got these basics figured out. What weâre talking about is a sense of purpose. Every truly successful company that Iâve ever worked with has created clarity around the âwhyâ

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 15, 20071 topic

Five Common On-Campus Advertising Mistakes

Whether you are trying to get students to attend an event or to check out your job postings, avoid these frequently made mistakes.nn1. Wasting time and money on advertising that doesn't reach your target audiencennNewspapers and bulletin boards may seem like great places to advertise, but do you know which day most students actually read the campus newspaper? And if they do read it, do they even notice the ads from employers? Before you spend thousands of dollars, ask ten stu

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 7, 20091 topic

How Do You Get Back Up? A Counterintuitive Approach to Thriving in Challenging Times

A while back, I received a distressed email from Ken, a young manager at a high-tech company.nnKen and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he'd led his team. To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. When necessary, Ken told me, they would band together and work hard -- 10 to 20 hours a day at times -- to solve a problem or meet a pressing need. Ken's wife woul

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 7, 20081 topic

Some Facts We Need To Face

* The high school graduation rate in the United States -- which is about 70 percent of the age cohort -- is now well behind that of countries such as Denmark (96 percent), Japan (93 percent), and even Poland (92 percent) and Italy (79 percent). nn * Only about a third of U.S. high school students graduate ready for college today, and the rates are much lower for poor and minority students. Forty percent of all students who enter college must take remedial courses. And while n

Primary topic: Achievement

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMay 8, 20081 topic

When Church Autonomy Is Tyranny

Ignorance is the enemy of liberty. That truth has never been so forcefully made as it has been with the rescue of the hundreds of children from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound in Eldorado, Texas.nnAs the clergy abuse crisis within the Roman Catholic Church has proved, Americans are all too willing to ignore evidence of child abuse when it occurs in the context of religious organizations. Until very recently, willed denial was the primary response to this devasta

Primary topic: Christianity

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 15, 20081 topic

Shedding Light on Dark Marketing

Dark Marketing is slowly making its way into the advertising lexicon, and for good reason. Rock bands like Nine Inch Nails and burger giant McDonalds have unleashed its brand engagement and reinforcement capabilities with results marketing chiefs can cheer.nnBut, for many in the industry, the term is still more likely to conjure an image of Darth Vader opening a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos instead of what the concept delivers: legions of brand enthusiasts actively participating

Primary topic: Marketing Strategy

Marketing Strategy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonFeb 8, 20081 topic

How Daddy Died: The Real Truth

My fatherâs death certificate is a fraud. The family doctor, family friend, long-dead, initiated the cover up. Dr. Blackmer, dressed as always in a dark suit with the sprinkling of dandruff on his bear-like shoulders, stood in that hospital corridor that last night mumbling about pernicious anemia. So this is what he chooses to call the cause of death, âpernicious anemiaâ. I can only guess at his motives, his competency in not labeling my father an âalcoholic.â Mayb

Primary topic: Self Help Books

Self Help Books

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonFeb 3, 20091 topic

How the Best Leaders Build Trust

Almost everywhere we turn, trust is on the decline. Trust in our culture at large, in our institutions, and in our companies is significantly lower than a generation ago. Research shows that only 49% of employees trust senior management, and only 28% believe CEOs are a credible source of information. Consider the loss of trust and confidence in the financial markets today. Indeed, "trust makes the world go ‘round," and right now we're experiencing a crisis of trust. Thi

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 3, 20081 topic

Lessons Learned from Second Life

Virtual worlds give participants an opportunity to be whoever they want, wish or hope to be. With a custom designed "avatar," you can look, behave and speak any way you want. It's your "second life," after all.nnBrands, however, don't have that luxury. They bring established reputations and perceptions into a realm where everything is new and anything goes.nnThe "Wild West" nature of virtual worlds frightens brand managers schooled in carefully crafted and controlled messages

Primary topic: Marketing Strategy

Marketing Strategy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 13, 20081 topic

Their License To Do Ill

Since the founding of the Moral Majority Coalition by Jerry Falwell in 1979, members of the American conservative movement and what has become its electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, have presented themselves as proponents of what they like to call "family values" and as leaders in the cultural wars they have unilaterally declared on liberalism and its (in their view) hedonistic, '60s-like ethos. They have railed against premarital and extramarital sex, championed the vi

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 2, 20081 topic

Executive Traits a Critical Gauge of Investment Merit

Investors evaluate companies by gauging management effectiveness, quality, character, and values. Surprisingly, executives, who have an inordinate influence on their stock price, often transmit the wrong signals and act improperly with their investors, the media, customers, and employees. They fall prey to cheerleading and puffery. They over-promote their stock, managing the stock instead of the company. I was a securities analyst on Wall Street for 32 years, and this subject

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 29, 20071 topic

Notes From The Opt-Out Universe

As a twelve-year veteran of the suburban âopt-outâ culture, I am intrigued by the renewed and misguided discourse on the social dynamics of the insular universe I inhabit. I see the points that are being made. In record numbers, we are getting off the career freeway that was paved by our feminist foremothers, and taking exits that lead us back to marriage and motherhood, financial dependence, cookies and gardening. It does seem strange when viewed from the outside. nnOn t

Primary topic: Family

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 21, 20081 topic

The World of Work

The world of business and employment can be a cutthroat one, which is why it helps to be ahead of the game and gain an advantage over competitors whether individuals or entire companies.nnBusiness Internet Domain NamesnnAs with all aspects of selling yourself, choosing a name for your website is as vital as any other way of making sure people notice your business and, most important, remember it.nnHere's the list that the UK Freeserve website defines as the key to success: RA

Primary topic: Business Etiquette

Business Etiquette

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 29, 20071 topic

Do You React Or Respond To Life?

Stephen Covey, in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, shares an experience that he once had while traveling on the New York subway. Imagine you are riding the subway early one morning, and everybody appears to be comfortable -- people are drinking their coffee, reading their newspapers and magazines, working on their laptops, talking on their cell phones. Everything is normal and peaceful. At each station, a few people get off, a few people get on, everything is calm

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 12, 20081 topic

AIDS: A Psychological Roller-Coaster at a Crossroad

The recent XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City covered many interesting topics, including up-to-date medical treatments and the impressive increases in programs to address the AIDS calamity in Africa. Conspicuously absent was any discussion about the psychological vicissitudes experienced by AIDS victims, and their loved ones, in the developed world. In the last twenty-five years, Americans have struggled with the disease both medically and psychologically as AI

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 24, 20081 topic

Prologue (Pharmakon Book Excerpt)

I was born because a man came to kill my father. If he hadn't showed up with a gun in his pocket and bad thoughts in his head, I wouldn't exist, much less have a story to tell. This tragic footnote to my conception left me feeling as if I had three parents: a father, a mother, and a murderer.nnMy father suffered from strange and temporarily paralyzing attacks of catatonia that my family, with characteristic discretion, referred to as Dad's "Sock Moments." You would walk past

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 18, 20071 topic

Ten Tips For Better Sex And Deeper Intimacy

Tantra is an ancient Indian tradition that recognizes sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual empowerment. Sexual energy does not necessarily mean sexual activity but rather, the life force that exists in everything. Indeed, Tantric practices can enrich your relationship and all aspects of your life. Consciously exploring pleasure, sexuality and intimacy is an easy way to start. Doing so will enable you to find more satisfaction and a deeper sense of connection. H

Primary topic: Sexuality

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 7, 20081 topic

Living Well -- Diet And Nutrition

33 How do I know when I should see a registered dietitian?nnSee a registered dietitian (RD) when your diabetes is first diagnosed, when a new doctor changes your treatment plan, or twice a year for a routine review of your meal plan and goals. See the RD more often if:nn• You want to improve diabetes control.nn• You experience lifestyle or schedule changes, such as a new job, marriage, or pregnancy.nn• Your nutritional needs keep changing (this is true for c

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 28, 20071 topic

10 Strategies: An Overview

Fast Profits in Hard Times will teach you everything you need to know and give you specific resources (websites, toll-free numbers, etc) to implement the following 10 strategies:nn1. Invest in Tax LiensnBuy liens placed on properties by municipalities because owners have fallen behind in paying their property taxes. Then, when the property owners pay what they owe to the municipalities, receive not only a return of your principal but also a penalty interest rate set by the mu

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 3, 20081 topic

Satan's Utensil, Or "My Palm Is My Pilot . . . "

Charles Saatchi, Donny Deutsch: name any flog-master you care to. In my opinion they're second best, though, compared to the holy ones, those who bedeck Williamsburg's streets with the word of G-d. Suddenly last summer, out for a bike jaunt, my mind did a double take as I stopped to answer a cell-phone call. Plastered on a wall of one of the many Satmar institutions in Williamsburg, the fires of hell jumped out, licking at my heels. Was I in Brooklyn? Not.nnOn a Yiddish broad

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 27, 20081 topic

Bringing Baby Home: Your Postpartum Plan

You went in to this pregnancy with one goal in mind; bringing a new baby into your home. One of the most important ways you can prepare for this enormous event is to make plans for those first six weeks after delivery. Bringing a baby home is not about what color is right for the nursery or do the socks I bought match the outfit Aunt Doris sent? There are more important issues to consider before you carry that cuddly sweet bundle across the threshold.nnThe most important plan

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 21, 20081 topic

Lawyers And Pirates

I have been surprised since writing my novel, "SILVER -- My Own Tale As Told By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder", by a particular question that readers have asked and the frequency with which it has been asked. The question assumes different forms, but it is chronic: "What is the difference between pirates and lawyers?"n nThe question is always asked with a smile and the audience consistently responds with a laugh. I don't resent the question or the person asking it. I do r

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJan 31, 20081 topic

5 Steps To Optimizing Your Website

The majority of Web site owners have fewer than 10 incoming links to their sites. The search engines view incoming links as verification that your site has quality content. The more related links your site has from other sites (with the underlined clickable text that includes your targeted keywords), the higher your ranking in the search engines will be. Here is a step-by-step overview of this entire SEO process: nnSelect your keywords. Use tools such as the Overture Search T

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 22, 20081 topic

Skirts in the Boardroom

I was raised around a lot of guys. I was the only girl. My brothers and cousins even started a club called BAM -- Boys Against Marshawn! Most of my mentors have been males. This has made me an extreme alpha personality, and very competitive. Some women, and many men, view this competitive nature as a threat. It wouldn't be in a man; it would be revered and praised. But as a woman, the alpha personality can often be seen as a liability. If I were to believe this, it would deme

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 17, 20081 topic

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

What are the secrets to happiness and meaning? Why do some people find a deep sense of purpose while they are here and die with few regrets while others end their lives bitter and disappointed?nnAbout two years ago I set out to answer that question by asking several thousand people to identify the one person they knew who had lived a long life and found true happiness. It seemed to me that each of us knows at least one person who achieved true success. After receiving over 1,

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 1, 20081 topic

Confused by Fear

Why do we always worry about the wrong things? nConfused by Fear nnIt would be a lot easier to enjoy your day if there weren't so many things trying to kill you before sundown. The problems start before you're even fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills six hundred Americans each year. There's the early morning coronary, which is 30 to 50 percent likelier than the kind that strikes later in the day. There's the fatal tumble down the stairs, the bite of sausage th

Primary topic: Overcoming Fear

Overcoming Fear

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 14, 20081 topic

Social-Media Impact: Balancing Metrics And Insight For Advertising Success

Brands can benefit from advertising in social-media space. The approaches offer a means to engage consumers, enhance brand reputation and image, build positive brand attitudes, improve organic search rankings, and drive traffic to brand locations, both on- and off-line. The steps in any advertising campaign will begin with setting campaign objectives and end with assessing the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics to determine the degree of success in accomplishing the

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 8, 20091 topic

When the Wheels Come Off

I grew up in the 70's and 80's when parents still told their kids to go outside and play. My friends and I would spend all day in the yard and when we got hot and sweaty enough we'd run to the back patio, open the water spigot on the side of the house and get down on our hands and knees so we could get low enough to turn our mouths up for a drink of water that splashed all over our faces and down our necks. In the evenings I remember seeing my parents shaking their heads as t

Primary topic: Family

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 9, 20081 topic

A Jewish Graveyard and a Battlefield

November 30th, 2008 -- Today was our last day in Medina, the city of the Prophet, before we head to Mecca, the center of the Islamic world. My mother has adjusted well and is beginning to overcome her phobia of crowds. We have had the good fortune of meeting friendly Muslim women who have taken my mom under their wing and eased her into the hectic experience of the holy city. They have taken her to the mosque with them every day, as I can only accompany her part of the way, t

Primary topic: Religion

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 10, 20081 topic

A New Job Requirement For Authors

Who knew that one needed to be so thoroughly tech-savvy to be an author?nnIâm not just talking about knowing how to create chapter headers in Word (I donât but I fake it well enough) or being able to change your printer cartridge. Nowadays, you have to know how to blog-vlog-flickr-twitter-facebook-wordpress-upload-youtube-blip.tv in order to be an author, that is, if you have some hopes of being a successful commercial author. It helps if you have nice friends who know ho

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 12, 20071 topic

Boom!: Voices Of The Sixties

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of one hundred dollars a week, because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less. Meredith, who had a superior college record, couldn't find any work because, as one personnel director after another told her, "You're a young bride. If we hire you, you'll just get pregnant before long and want maternity leave." nnIn retrospect, the political

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 25, 20071 topic

Gautama Buddha- Book Excerpt

Gautama BuddhanBorn 563 B.C.nDied 483 B.C. (Approximate Dates)nnBuddha was born a privileged prince named Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal. He lived a luxurious life with his wife, Princess Yasodhara, till the age of twenty-nine, when he realized he’d never stepped foot outside the palace gates and might actually like to take a look around. Seeing poverty and death for the first time, he began to wonder not only how the other half lives, but how to attain a state beyond birt

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 6, 20081 topic

Your Sexy Self

Here are a few tips for dealing with your post-pregnancy body and keeping the spark alive:nn• Review your expectations. If you were under the impression that you'd slip right back into your hippest pair of jeans right after the baby was born, you may need to accept that for most women, this just isn't realistic. Sure, there are the lucky few who can be seen lounging poolside in sexy bikinis three or four weeks post-baby, but if you're reading this, you are probably not

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJan 25, 20081 topic

The Open Brand Framework

Are you ready to open? nnIf so, we've put together a strategic framework that capitalizes on both the social web's traits and technologies and the icitizenry's power to be both medium and message. nnTwo trends in particular anchor the open brand framework: nThe first is the emergence of consumer notoriety through the increased visibility of individuals -- as data, as consumer profiles, as artists or entrepreneurs no longer reliant upon paid third parties to be "known" to the

Primary topic: Marketing Strategy

Marketing Strategy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 9, 20081 topic

A New Dialogue for Our Children's Future

We are not going to transform education by simply replacing one administration with another or even by passing new laws. Instituting better assessments is the one most important change we could make tomorrow that would have the greatest impact, but before we can consider a host of other policy recommendations, we first must have a long-overdue dialogues-a discussion that might well start with a simple admission and a question: I thought I knew what students needed to learn an

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 25, 20071 topic

A Meditation on Love

When people talk about where they find beauty, what is beautiful to them, they reveal whom they love and how they love, and what they love to do.nnListening as people recollect and offer their own beauty stories, I am in awe of the ways that beauty moves in our lives. Everyone who has a family, or loves an animal or a place or a piece of music, has a beauty story to tell. A man reflects on the challenge of keeping Eros alive in a long marriage, a woman speaks of what it was l

Primary topic: Beauty

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonFeb 7, 20081 topic

Presidential Leadership Brand

We are in the midst of selecting a candidate for president. Each candidate has articulated positions on important issues â¦ economy, terrorism, war, immigration, healthcare, and so forth. While these specific issues matter, we know that we donât know all the demands our next President will face. Eight years ago, who could have predicted the Iraqi war and occupation, Katrina, global economic conditions, and other national and international crises? In the absence of knowing

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 10, 20081 topic

The World's Biggest Pollution Factory

The coal that has powered China's economic growth . . . is also choking its people. nn-- Elizabeth C. Economy nnnAt the root of many of China's air-quality problems is its heavy dependence on relatively high-sulfur, low-quality coal for everything from electricity generation and industrial production to cooking and space heating in the home. China relies on coal for almost 75% of its energy needs. In fact, each year, China consumes more coal than Japan, the United Kingdom, an

Primary topic: Travel

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 23, 20081 topic

Fallen Mann

The Mann Act, long relegated to the status of bawdy Frank Sinatra punch lines and literary asidesâLolitaâs Humbert Humbert deplores the law as âlending itself to a dreadful punââwas serious news recently for the first time in a century. In March, when Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York, pundits speculated that he might face criminal charges based on the law, passed in 1910, that forbade the interstate transportation of any woman or girl for âthe purpos

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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