The Real Mike Griffin

The Walmart Effect

Walmart’s success affects the country and the entire world.  Walmart has put many things within the reach of all of us but it’s operation has sent ripples around the world – changing the way business is run, causing us to look at how imported products are made and asking ourselves if we should [...]

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Life doesn’t always go the way you suppose. What’s the problem? Go with it… Dale Carnegie said, “when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” That’s what they did in these cases and you can do the same. Look at the results you are getting in whatever it is you are doing and figure out what it means. For McConnell the books weren’t working but he purfume was; for Wrigley it was the gum; for Henry Ford’s partners in the first Ford Motor Company it was not Henry Ford – but they created the Cadillac Company – in the same enterprise things weren’t right for Ford and he moved on, started another company and yet another auto giant.

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Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

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by Michael Griffin
True hope is one of the most motivating emotions going for you.  I used the word emotions to describe hope, but there is more to hope than that.  Hope is a real thing not just an emotion.
Hope is not wishing, often people use the word that way but a true understanding and appreciation [...]

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Always reframe and view rejection as a learning, a honing experience. It is said that Colonel Sanders was turned down (rejected) over 1000 times before he got his first franchisee for Kentucky Fried Chicken. All the while he was traveling around, sometimes sleeping in his car all on the strength of a recipie he [...]

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