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The Best Man Money Could Buy

May 21, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

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Ernie R writes to The Good Life of two best men: his own, and himself.

Filed Under: Best Men, Featured Content, Men Over 50, Platonic Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: Best Man, best man wedding, chronic illness, depression, Friendships, Good Men, goodness, Grooms, honor, how to be a best man, how to be a good friend, integrity, long friendships, male friendships, manhood, marriage, men, men weddings, men's friendships, secret to long relationships, supporting friends, The Good Life, what makes a best man

A Person Is Not a Closet

May 5, 2013 By Chuck Ross 114 Comments

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Did Jason Collins use his former fiancee, Carolyn Moos?

Filed Under: Breaking Stories, Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: athletes coming out, basketball, beards, betrayal, black men, Bonnie Kaye, Carolyn Moos and Jason Collins, character, closeted men, CNN, coming out, commitment, Eat the Press, engagement, Forbe's, gay husband straight wife, gay men in straight relationships, homosexuality, honesty, Howard Kurtz, hypermasculinity, integrity, Jason Collins engagement, Jason Collins NBA, Jason Linkins, Kiri Blakely, leading women on, living a lie, marriage, masculinity, men's sexuality, NBA, openly gay pro athletes, Piers Morgan interview, pro athletes, pro athletes in the closet, relationships, starting a family, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Time Bandits, TMZ, WNBA, women's fertility

Your Cheating Heart Will Tell On You

April 19, 2013 By Tim O'Connor Leave a Comment

Celebrity athletes lose endorsements when they lie; the rest of us lose our integrity.

Filed Under: Men's Work Tagged With: Alex Rodgriguez, integrity, Lance Armstrong, lying, Oprah, Ray Lewis, Taylor Swift, Vijay Singh

The 4 Features of a Powerful Apology

April 13, 2013 By Kim Hudson 2 Comments

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Why is it so terrifying to apologize?

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: advice, apologizing, CEO, changing bad habits, character, continuous improvement, defensiveness, ego death, Forgiveness, how to say I'm sorry, integrity, James Burke, leadership, making amends, power of truth, relationships, trust, Tylenol news 1982, Tylenol tampering

Remembering Roger Ebert

April 5, 2013 By Noah Brand Leave a Comment

What made him the one movie critic people really listened to?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: beyond the valley of the dolls, criticism, film, in memoriam, integrity, movies, Noah Brand, obituary, Roger Ebert, The Perfect London Walk, trust

I’ll Get Back to You

April 3, 2013 By Ken Goldstein Leave a Comment

Ken Goldstein debunks the age-old “I was busy,” excuse and explores the consequences of not staying true to your word in the ever-shrinking world of business.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: Accountability, being busy, being too busy, business, busy, career, employment, follow up, how to network, integrity, job, Network, networking, professional, professionalism, silence, sound of silence, success, Work

How Not to Cheat

March 23, 2013 By Bill Cloke 7 Comments

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Marriage is simply hard work. But the good news is that attitude is everything.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Infidelity, The Good Life Tagged With: actions, anxiety, bachelorhood, betrayal, bride and groom, character, cheating spouse, communication relationships, destiny, Divorce, ethics, Families, Four Agreements, guilt, honesty, how to earn respect, infidelity, integrity, lying, marriage, marriage advice infidelity, marriage counselor, married, Married life, native-american history, negative emotions, relationship therapist, relationships, respect, Sex and Relationships, shame, single life, Toltec, values, wedding, wedding ceremony, workplace romance

Maker’s Mark Broadens Target Audience for Their Whisky

February 16, 2013 By Chuck Ross 2 Comments

Will watering down their whisky water down Maker’s Mark’s reputation? The premium whisky distiller becomes a case study in branding.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Food, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: advertising, alcohol, American whiskey, Beam Inc, Bill Walton NBA, bourbon, bourbon ads, bourbon culture, business ethics, business forecasting, business school case studies, Chuck Cowdery, cocktails, distilled liquor, Guinness, integrity, integrity versus brand, Jack Daniels, Kentucky, Kentucky bourbon, Knob Creek, maker's mark, marketing, Megan McArdle, new whiskey drinnkers, newcomer demand, out stock, premium alcohol, premium bourbon market, public relations, purists vs newbies, Rob Samuels, supply channels, the Atlantic, The Daily Beast, watered down bourbon, whiskey, whiskirexia nervosa, Whisky, whisky purists

What Ferris Bueller Teaches Us about the Value of Repetition

February 5, 2013 By Jordan Guernsey Leave a Comment

Say it Again…

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: Accountability, business, communication, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, influence, integrity, repetition, Work

Shame Is Why We Fight

January 6, 2013 By Vironika Tugaleva 29 Comments

When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men and Masculinity, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: abuse, aggression, anger, Anger Management, anxiety, authenticity, battering, biology, Brene Brown, communication, concern, conflict, cult of femininity, cult of masculinity, cycle of abuse, defensiveness, dignity, disposability of men, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domination, embarrassment, emotional intelligence, emotions, empathy, entitlement, evolutionary psychology, fear, female anxiety, Fighting, gender roles, hate crimes, heterosexual relationships, inadequacy, instinct, integrity, intimacy, isolation, judgment, judgmental, male ego, male entitlement, masculinity, mass shootings, misplaced blame, panic, prejudice, protectors, relationships, secrecy, secrets, security, sex, shame, shame research, silence, socialization, soothing, Steven Stosny, submission, support, suppressing anger, suppressing fear, triggers, validation, values, venting, vigilance, violence, vulnerability

Cockfighters and Poets

December 10, 2012 By Jeff Swain 3 Comments

What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.

Filed Under: Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: animal cruelty, anthropology, artistic process, artists, Bali, Balinese cockfighting, Catharsis, character, Clifford Geertz, cockfighting, cockfights, courage, creating art, creation., cultural anthropology, Culture, desire, destiny, dueling, fate, Greek myth, Greek plays, Greek tragedy, Herbert Miller, hero, heroic journey, heroism, identity, integrity, Joseph Campbell, manhood, manhood rites, marathons, masculinity, Meaning of Life, passion, perception, plays, power of myth, purpose, quarter-life crisis, running, sexuality, sport, strength, The Interpretation of Cultures, The Spirit of Tragedy, tragedy, victory, violence, virility

Is Football Heroic? Jovan Belcher, Violence, and Masculinity

December 9, 2012 By Kim Hudson 14 Comments

Is the masculine power the makes football exhilarating, the same destructive force that killed Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog, Sports Tagged With: American culture, courage, discipline, domestic violence, football, heroes, hypermasculinity, insecurity, integrity, Jovan Belcher, Kansas City Chiefs, Kasandra Perkins, man code, masculine archetypes, masculinity, mental illness, murder-suicide, nfl, protecting, self-control, sports, sports culture, sports heroes, sportsmanship, stoicism, suicide, violence, warrior king

The Self-Affirmation Safety Net

November 25, 2012 By Cale Helmer 2 Comments

Quit congratulating yourself for “doing your best” and figure out why you failed.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: Accountability, benchmarking, character, dealing with failure, diagnosing failure, education, ego, excuses, failure, Google, how to fail, integrity, Ishikawa diagram, Learning, learning experiences, losing gracefully, marissa mayer, Mason Cooley, resources, Responsibility, rites of passage, success, taking stock, the art of losing, Training

Is It Fair to Believe Men Can Be Summed Up By Our Desire to Drink, F*** and Swear?

November 25, 2012 By Tom Matlack 66 Comments

Even “regular guys” aren’t two-dimensional stereotypes, says Tom Matlack.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Good Is Good, Smashing Male Stereotypes, The Good Life Tagged With: adultery, auto workers, Charlie Sheen, Community, economy, Eliot Spitzer, Families, father, fatherhood, football, founder, golf, goodness, handicap, hanna rosin, honesty, Husband, identity, integrity, layoffs, leadership, male stereotypes, manhood, marrriage, masculinity, media images of men, men, Men's Issues, mental illness, prison, prisoners' rights, Recession, regular guys, roles, social justice, sports, Stereotypes, The End of Men, The Good Men Project, Tiger Woods, Tom Matlack, unemployment, veterans, War in Iraq, war veterans, Work

It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp

August 30, 2012 By William Lucas Walker 10 Comments

William Lucas Walker was offered a free Club Med vacation… would you say no to that?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men Are Funny Tagged With: Club Med, integrity, Jennifer Love Hewitt, marketing, Parenthood, spilled milk, The Client List, vacation, William Lucas Walker

Man-to-Man with Animated American Producer Bill Schultz

May 17, 2012 By Savas Abadsidis Leave a Comment

Savas Abadsidis sits down with animation producer Bill Schultz to discuss baseball, entertainment, and the value of a good father.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Man-to-Man Interviews Tagged With: animation, baseball, Bill Schultz, coaching, family, father, Home Plate Entertainment, integrity, music, New World Entertainment, perfectionism, producer, talent

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