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“Spanish architects building a 700-foot skyscraper on Spain’s Mediterranean coast discovered a bit of a design flaw: The 47-floor building’s elevator only goes to the 20th floor. What’s more, architects for the InTempo building didn’t realize their mistake until it was only two months away from completion.…

On the Mediterranean coast of Spain there is an almost finished 700-foot, 47-floor skyscraper. Only two months away from completion architects discovered a small flaw. The elevator only went to the 20th floor and there is no room in the plan for adding an elevator to service the final 17 floors. Some…

New research suggests that the best way to reach a goal is make a specific plan and follow it, but for those striving for several goals at once, planning is not as effective. The study which appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, compiled results from several experiments, which found that people…

In his book on Crazy Horse and Custer, Stephen Ambrose tells of the 1857 war council held by the Sioux tribes. They were concerned with the whites who were moving into their country in ever greater numbers. At the council there were from 5000 to 7500 Sioux from all but one of the Sioux nations. All of…

Before the Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper died; he made a series of TV commercials for Ameriprize Financial, aimed specifically at Baby Boomers. One commercial begins with Hopper standing at a crossroads and saying, “So here you are, a little confused. Did you think the road to retirement was an expressway?…

five characteristics that set “leader managers” apart from “run-of-the-mill managers”: 1. Leader managers are long-term thinkers who see beyond the day’s crisis and the quarterly report. 2. Leader managers’ interests in their companies do not stop with the units they head. They want to know how all…

COST Americans just commemorated the first anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. While we mourned the loss of life, and were energized by the demonstrations of patriotism, the cost of September 11th will be felt for a long time to come. New York City Comptroller William Thompson says,…

PLANNING Jon Bon Jovi says, “Map out your future, but do it in pencil.” —Reader’s Digest, September 2002, p. 73 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson James 4:13-15 NIV “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ [14] Why,…

Budget – telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M. Braude, page 84

The secret of financial success is to spend what you have left after saving instead of saving what is left after spending. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M. Braude, page 812

How To Get Real Action HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE. George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi , was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to…