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Trail Mix: Health care reform in page or less
Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about my final push for healthcare reform.
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Game shows challenges of real life
Monopoly was one of my favorite board games as a kid.
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These are appreciated attributes at work
The last sentence of my last column contained the words, “Send me via e-mail the attributes you appreciate in co-workers. I’ll incorporate them in an upcoming column from which I think readers wil...
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Caution: Mother Nature ahead
Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webb’s Creek thinking about random acts of dumbness (RADs).
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Getting ready for the Oscars
While football fanatics have the Superbowl, movie buffs like me have the Oscars.
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Do you brighten — or dull — the workplace?
When I mention the descriptive term “grumpy” or “moody,” is there any particular co-worker that comes to mind? Could someone apply the term to you every now and then — or maybe on a regular basis?
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Rail trip to Washington D.C dream come true
There’s a contagious wonder about trains that some people catch early in life and that holds to them with the tenacity of a tulip tree clinging to the side of an impossibly steep Sevier County hil...
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Encourage one another to achieve your very best
I take a hands-on, special interest in every organization with whom I am involved as a speaker, trainer or consultant. I want to make sure that what I say and do is relevant and on target for the ...
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Become more valuable to your organization, yourself
“Mr. Mays, I’m fairly new with the company and I’d like to get some tips on exactly what I need to do to make me more valuable to the company.” This was one of the responses I received when solicit...
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Performances leave a lot to be desired
I’m not a music critic. I couldn’t identify one note from another during a performance, but I can tell when a note’s not met by my automatic cringe-reflex.
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