Imagine one of your best friends—who’s not that great with money—called out of the blue with a “really hot” investment tip. How would you respond? Now imagine your investment manager called out of the blue and offered to watch your kids so you could have the night off. How would you respond? Odds are, both […]
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“The missions ran on trust…because the astronauts who sat in those heavy metal eggcups jammed on the top of rockets trusted those of us on the ground. That trust tied the entire team into a common effort.” – Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director for Gemini & Apollo programs Last week we explored why focusing on
Ray Thompson and Elie Wiesel were born on opposite sides of the globe in 1928; they lived very different lives, but both serve as extreme examples of why a focus on trust alone isn’t enough. Thompson lost his life along with 12 fellow smokejumpers in a forest fire in Montana in 1949 when they chose
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“If he cries, pick him up.” Our firstborn was only four days old. I remember thinking it odd our pediatrician thought she needed to tell us that. He was our entire world at that point. “You’ve probably heard of sleep training,” she continued, “where you let the child cry themselves to sleep. Don’t start anything
