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Love & Respect: Book Delivers Hard Truths, Provides Big Marriage Boost
“We believe love best motivates a woman and respect most powerfully motivates a man.“ -From www.LoveAndRespect.com A book that I find myself recommending to couples all the time is one that has had a...
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WWDB Free Enterprise Days Honors, Gives Thanks to Military Veterans
I was born during the Vietnam War. By the time it ended, I was too young to have any awareness of how Americans back home treated returning veterans who survived that terrible conflict. From what I...
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15 Years Ago: The Birth of Quixtar
Fifteen years ago today was a milestone event in the history of the Amway business. For months leading up to it, “9-1-99” was a hugely anticipated moment when the then-40-year-old business formed a...
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Success of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Flows from Donors’ Strong Influence
By now, you have probably not only heard of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but have seen some of the videos people have shot. And maybe you have even gotten drenched yourself and/or donated to the...
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Being Slow to Speak: The Benefit of Doing What Comes Unnaturally
A few years ago, I wrote about a recurring theme in my life—my struggle to think before speaking. It was accompanied by a helpful acrostic (see on the left) from the word “think.” World Wide Group and...
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After Real Estate Bubble, World Wide Group’s Wisdom Shines Through
“Look at what the masses are doing—and then do the opposite.” When I first heard this comment, many years ago, at World Wide Group (WWDB) conferences like Free Enterprise Days, I thought about how this...
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Preseason Amway Coaches Poll Kicks Off Marketing Coup for Company
Back in February, I wrote about Amway becoming the presenting sponsor of the American Football Coaches’ Association Poll and how it represented a very substantial marketing development for the Ada,...
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Choppy Cuisinart Saga Vs. Customer Service Quality of Amway, Others
Back in mid-June, my Cuisinart food processor had a setback—the handle of a work bowl broke. The next day, I sent an email via the company’s website, and included a copy of my purchase receipt showing...
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Follow-Up: Amway & India’s Out-of-Touch (In)justice System
More than a month ago, I wrote about the “arrest-now and ask-questions-later” approach by authorities in India who arrested Amway India Chairman and CEO William S. Pinckney. It was the second such...
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The Gift of Struggle: Empathy / The Gift of Empathy: Connection
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is a charity that takes talks, often TED talks, finds their “meaty” portions, and creates animated shorts out of them....
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Capturing ‘Goodbye’ Moment Creates One Memory,Triggers Another
Yesterday, an hour before we were to be at the title company to close on our former home, we thought we’d stop by and say, “Goodbye.” I brought my camera, not exactly knowing what I’d take photos of,...
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‘Memory-Like Liberty-Can Be A Fragile Thing’
There are some people in my life who have a reputation for “embellishing” stories from their past. It’s a mostly amusing tendency, relatively harmless. But in this June 2013 TED Global talk by...
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Facebook as Rorschach: People Seeing What They Want To See
The man depicted as Pastor Steepek in the online hoax. (Photo by Brad J. Gerrard) Sometime in the future, maybe school systems (and home-school families) will have the good sense to include “Internet...
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Surreal Scene: ‘Super Screen Baby’
Last week, while having dinner at one of our favorite spots in town, I couldn’t help but notice a sight that has popped up with increasing frequency: an infant with his eyes fixed on a screen he held...
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Gratitude Slips: Counting—and Writing—Our Blessings, Day by Day
Since our children were about three years old, the centerpiece of our bedtime ritual has been a gratitude reflection. One by one we share and usually it’s at least a few items apiece, from activities...
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TV or Not TV, That is the Question
You’ve probably heard of TV Turn-Off Week? We’ve had TV Turn-Off for roughly 900 weeks. And with our children about to turn 10 years old, I can say with confidence that not having a TV has been one of...
View ArticleMy Latest ‘Pick-Me-Up’: Will & Monifa, The Playful ‘Pumpcast News’ Couple
Some time in early May, a couple sang “Living on a Prayer” and then “Sweet Dreams” at a Costco gas station in Burbank, Calif. It was for “Pumpcast News,” a karaoke segment that airs on The Tonight Show...
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Do You Know Your Entrepreneurial DNA?
Today, there is a mountain of tools and resources to help entrepreneurs. And yet the failure rate is the same as it was 50 years ago. Why? In a recent TED talk, Joe Abraham addresses this issue by...
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Love Hard: Living Through My Mom’s Dying Days
In the 1970s My mom died last week. On Thursday. She was my single focus for her last three weeks. The longest three weeks, and the shortest three weeks of my life. It all started 36 days ago when she...
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Love & Respect: Book Delivers Hard Truths, Provides Big Marriage Boost
“We believe love best motivates a woman and respect most powerfully motivates a man.“ -From www.LoveAndRespect.com A book that I find myself recommending to couples all the time is one that has had a...
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