We are now back and posting. . . we had an attack a few weeks ago on our web site at 1-Focus and ended up with malware that caused all sorts of problems and embarrassment.  Our columns on the left and right are still a little messed up but you can still read the posts.  We did [...]

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The first time you find out that someone else has YOUR name you are devastated.  For most of us this happens at quite a young age. . . for me I was around 8 or even 10 before I discovered that anyone had the same name as me. To be honest I am not sure that I [...]

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I grew up in a time when children didn’t have to bring their candy home from Halloween and have it checked.  And while I was told not to talk to strangers or take candy from anyone, I was instructed to go to a policeman if I was in trouble.  So it is not surprising that [...]

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I am sure most of us have read stories about all the “failures” that Abraham Lincoln endured before being elected as President of the United States.  A week ago I wrote about having both a strong ego and humility: courage and heart. 
Here is a short video on Famous Failures – it is a little American and male [...]

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The National Crime Prevention Council has a program on Cyberbullying. Why is this relevant to businesses and organizations? Where do you think bullies learn to be bullies?  First the playground and then they graduate as teens to cyberbullying and that is one step away from workplace bullying.
In today’s Diversity Executive, Deanna Hartley reports [...]

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I am being interviewed this evening by Kim Nishida and the information is below.  While this is very short notice, I hope to post the recording info here later.  Kim is a coach who works with service professionals who struggle with being their own boss.  Kim also runs a series of free teleclasses that I [...]

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This video follows the path of a $25 loan from London, England to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. Kiva.org is a website that allows internet users like you or I to lend money to people that need it in developing countries, with the aim of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

A Fistful Of Dollars: [...]

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Yesterday we encouraged you to join us as a supporter of Kiva, a non-profit website that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world.  Today we want to celebrate you along with the New Year.  
We hope you take the 16 minutes to sit back and [...]

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Roberta joined Sandy as a partner in 1-Focus International in the fall of 2006. In the past two years we have focused our vision and strategy around the philosophy and values that we both share.
We believe that when one is working from a clear vision, mission and values, whether as an individual or organization, [...]

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The task of this generation:
 
This video (which I love because it has various languages in captions), and their website mark the launch of an inspiring global endeavor to celebrate compassion and to promote a new collaboration between the world’s religions. What they are doing is to begin writing the Charter for Compassion that Karen Armstrong [...]

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