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• May 22, 2018
  22May2018

  How Not to Take Yourself So Seriously: 5 Practices

  

  
  "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." -- Elbert Hubbard

  
  Last week I was offered another lesson at the indoor pool where I swim. Sunday, it seems, has become everyone's favorite day. The pool was packed. Lane designations are important when it's crowded, and two lanes are reserved for slower, leisurely swimmers--like me.

  So, I was in the first leisure lane with two other swimmers, while another very slow swimmer was in the second lane. Things were flowing well until three guys got into the second leisure lane with the slower swimmer. They were much faster and kept running into him--literally.

  I got upset and finally spoke to the guys...

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• November 12, 2013
  12Nov2013

  Filming for Harvard: An Adventure in Taking Myself Less Seriously

  

  When Harvard Business Publishing asked to interview and fillm me a few months ago, I was honored and delighted. They said they wanted a 2-3 minute video that would engage their management audience in the question: Why is learning to manage difficult conversations a key leadership skill? It didn't occur to me that vanity might play a part. And it was tempting, I have to say, to take myself a little too seriously…

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