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In a recent  post  responding to the act of giving so prevalent in this festive season, +Aubrey Daniels International  suggested that maybe it is not such a good idea to buy the boss a holiday gift. In the same vein as David Letterman, Daniels provides ten reasons to support his argument: 10. If you do it because others do it, you are doing it for the wrong reason and you will probably resent it 9. If the boss expects it, s/he is a bad boss to begin with and a gift may act as a positive reinforcer for bad boss behavior 8. If a gift affects the boss’ behaviour toward you, it is not a healthy work situation for you or the boss 7. It puts pressure on the boss to reciprocate and it is not a good idea to put pressure on the boss 6. It gets expensive for the boss if there are a number of direct or indirect reports who need reciprocating 5. It is the economy, stupid 4. It may cause the boss to question your motive 3. It is a good time to break this...

My wife and I sat and watched Argo   the other day. We had both read the hype and were dully rewarded, on the edge of  the couch to the very end. The question that it left me with though was how many other such stories exist through history of extreme risk that have failed and why are they not the stories that we are told? Having completed my rudimentary study of Joseph Campbell and The Hero with a Thousand Faces , I understand that there is a predetermined nature in all of us that wishes to succeed, a staple of the Hollywood film industry. However, how does this match up with the notion of failure? A part of me thinks that even a hero fails somewhere along the way, often this is making of their success. You don't have to look very hard on the Internet to find a discussion of some of the health benefits of failing every know and then. For example, Seth Godin states that, 'All of us fail. Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from tha...