Ken Potts
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How to know when failure can lead to successOct 12, 2017 10:34 am - It's become a mantra of modern management theory. To succeed, organizations must encourage their employees to take risks, must tolerate their failures, and must use each...
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Children learn from how we handle our emotionsOct 04, 2017 10:51 pm - "Dad, is this you when you're excited?" I know I'm a bit laid back, but I didn't realize I was so emotionally opaque to my daughter that she didn't even know when I was...
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Dealing with stress of family businessesOct 02, 2017 1:09 pm - Family businesses don't always bring families together. In fact, many a marriage has been damaged, even destroyed, by the day-in, day-out stress of husband and wife wor...
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Talking helps couples avoid conflicts over financesSep 21, 2017 10:45 am - There's an old saying about three things not to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion and money. Many families extend this proscription to family conversation ...
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Our past relationships shape how we connect to othersSep 14, 2017 11:08 am - You know the old saying, "What you see is what you get." Well, in reality, it's the opposite that's often true: "What you get is what you see." Research into how we per...
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Anxiety over mortality can cloud health-care decisionsSep 07, 2017 10:19 am - We all like having options. We want to make our own decisions. We appreciate the idea of choosing from among a number of well-defined alternatives. Most of the time. W...
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Ask yourself whether you're living the life you wantAug 31, 2017 9:44 am - Over the years, I have become accustomed to working with people in their 40s or early 50s who are questioning whether the lives they have been pursuing are really the li...
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Good intentions sometimes go wrongAug 24, 2017 12:01 pm - My younger brother called me the other day to share the most recent adventures of his family's new dog, Garage Sale Lily (Lily being the dog's name; garage sale being wh...
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Playing can help adults reduce stressAug 17, 2017 10:34 am - It had been a rough day, probably a rough week. You could tell it in the way he slowly pushed his grocery cart out the door, the way his shoulders slumped, the way his e...
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Spouses must row marriage boat togetherAug 10, 2017 10:38 am - How is a marriage like a row boat? Sounds like the lead-in to a bad joke, but stay with me for a minute. Comparing a marriage to a row boat is actually an analogy that...