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A Most Unusual Interview Obstacles, challenges, and tragedies are all part of life. Unavoidable. But lessons learned and shared from real-life experiences can help us in our … Life of Business or Business of Life. To win at business or life, adversity has to be faced, fought, and defeated. There is no other way. No options. You either beat it or it beats you. Win or you lose. Simple, right? No. Overcoming adversity is never simple. Ever. Sometimes, despite Herculean efforts, you still don’t win. You’re crushed, mangled, and left feeling like a little dark spot in the middle of the road that vehicles constantly run over, with no thought of the past history and life of that dark spot … … a dark spot that used to be a living, breathing organism experiencing the joy of life. Forget Just Surviving. Triumph. Thrive. But what about those people who not only triumph over adversity, but also ...

An interview with Carol Dweck , Ph.D., author of the book " Mindsets: The New Psychology of Success." by Steve Kayser * This is an abstracted version of the article "Have a Change of Mindset? " Change. A great word for the 2008 presidential candidates to position around. It's positive. And negative. An Overwhelming Constant But for us regular muck-a-mucks battling through the life of business, trying to stay competitive with marketable business skills, change is an overwhelming constant. It batters us with dizzying storms of unfathomable amounts of information. Howling hurricanes of digital rain. Just to stay even you have to run uphill. I work in Public Relations for a software company called Cincom Systems . To do my job adequately (keep abreast of the new technologies, strategies and tactics) I need to read at least three to four hours per day. Let me repeat that. Just to keep up, I need to read at least three to four hours per day. But I don...