by DarEll Hoskisson | Oct 2, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
Feel like quitting? If you feel like the treadmill of life is just too fast and you’ll never get ahead, I want you to know that I understand. It is so hard to feel like doing better when just keeping up seems impossible or hard enough. Most of my articles are about...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Sep 24, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
67%? I knew I had not done well on my first test, my freshman year at college, but that number was unthinkable. I’m the one who would freak out if my As got close to Bs. For me, this number wasn’t even on the map. Ouch. The test had been unlike anything I ever...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Sep 18, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
“How do you say “No” without being rude?” One of my young women asked in all sincerity. I loved the question because it got right to the heart of peer pressure problems. We all wonder how “nice” or “good” people end up doing crazy things they never would have done...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Sep 10, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
At the bottom of the narrow, wooden stairway in my grandparents’ home, was a plaque on the wall of a very stern cartoon gentleman. It said, “No!” “Now what was the question?” It was given as a joke, but the idea is a little intimidating. There are many people who...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Sep 3, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
Have you ever been part of a group with too much agreement, a zombie world? A group with too much “respect for authority” is in mental shut down. One person is making the decisions and everyone else just seems to follow. In business and other walks of life, it is a...
by DarEll Hoskisson | Aug 27, 2015 | DarEll S. Hoskisson: Self-Improvement
I went to two graduations recently, one high school and one college. In both cases, the authorized speaker requested that people withhold their applause, not use noise makers, and stay at their seats until the graduates were finished leaving in procession. In both...
