Month: September 2014
Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success Dan Schawbel St. Martin’s Griffin (2014) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde This is an expanded and updated edition of a book first published a year ago. I agree with…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Aparna M. for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * The need to be heard is a basic human need. Listening is…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Nick Morgan for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete artricle and check out others, please click here. * * * David McCloud, the Chief of Staff of the Governor of Virginia, taught…
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The Explorer Gene: How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper and Further Than Anyone Before Tom Cheshire Marble Arch Press (2013) How and why “we can all learn something of the Piccards’ spirit and passion for discovery ourselves”…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Haden for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo: flickr user Jason Csizmadi * * * Remarkable employees (here’s a link to how…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Taft for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo: creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by trackrecord * * * “You’d get very…
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B4B: How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship J.B. Wood, Todd Hewlin, and Thomas Lah Facebook.com/TSIA Books (2014) If “software is eating the world” (Marc Andreessen), then it’s time to update the kitchen and probably the recipes.…
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I have just read and will soon review Bruce Schneier‘s latest book, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. Almost all of the in formation, insights, and counsel he provides can help almost anyone earn and…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Julie Myers Wood, chief executive…
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The Stylish Steven Pinker
I have just read and will soon review Steven Pinker’s latest book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, published by Viking/The Penguin Group (September 2014). Steven offers three reasons why, in communications…
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