Originally published in Bottom Line Personal 9/1/00. Reprinted by permission. SELF-RESPONSIBILITY Accountability is one of today’s most popular business buzzwords. The term is bandied about with impunity by countless managers and CEOs, as if paying lip service to the...
This essay was originally published in the Intellectual Ammunition Department of The Objectivist Newsletter in November 1963. WAGES AND PRODUCTIVITY A reader asks: “Do labor unions raise the general standard of living?” Nathaniel Branden responds: One of the most...
Let us remember that the one of the foundational components of self-esteem is self-efficacy, or confidence in our ability to think, learn and persist. In today’s modern business infrastructure, this trait must be present in not only executives and managers but all...
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENTENCE COMPLETION PROGRAMS Sentence completion is a technique I have developed in my clinical practice that can be used to facilitate self-understanding and personal growth. The essence of the sentence completion procedure is to start with an...
The following thirty-week sentence completion program, from Dr. Branden’s recent book “Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life,” is designed to help you take more responsibility in all areas of your life. When doing sentence completion exercises,...