Say no, then go

F. M. Alexander, convinced that the Freudian thing was  not going to be very long-lived, called his principle of mindful response, inhibition. Well, he may have been wrong about Freud, but he was spot on in the articulation of his principle of mindful waiting....

Give yourself the benefit of the doubt

My wife, Susan, and I have a friend who worked for an international banking firm. He was a highly-placed executive who had open access to the CEO. He, our friend, was an ideas man. And every time he brought one of his ideas to the CEO the answer was an immediate and...