by Dino | Mar 21, 2025 | Better Thinking
Often called the “mother of family therapy,” Virginia Satir (1916-1988) started her professional life as an educator after graduating from what is now the University of Wisconsin in 1936. While working as a public school teacher, Virginia developed an...
by Dino | Mar 14, 2025 | Business Strategy
The topic of confidence comes up whenever I chat with a budding, prospective or even long-standing entrepreneur or a business owner. It’s unsurprising, but that in no way demeans its importance and impact on people. Or, more correctly, the importance and impact of the...
by Dino | Mar 7, 2025 | Better Thinking
Your Personal ‘Star Chart’ In the year of my birth, Robert McNamara became the US Secretary of Defense, and he remained in the post for several years until 1968. McNamara was obsessed with the idea of making decisions based ONLY on quantitative analysis,...
by Dino | Feb 27, 2025 | Concepts
In the classic film, The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland’s character, Dorothy, finds herself and Toto, her pet dog, in a mysterious and often dangerous land, having been whipped away by a cyclone from her home in Kansas, USA. She discovers that the land is called ‘Oz’ and...
by Dino | Feb 27, 2025 | Mental Game
There’s an old fable about an eagle that thought he was a chicken. When the eagle was very small, he fell from the safety of his nest. A chicken farmer found the eagle, brought him to the farm and raised him in a chicken coop among his many chickens. Sure enough, the...
