Month: September 2015
The TED organization offers a set of videos that offer a feast to those who are passionate about personal growth and professional development. Ann Landers once observed, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Here’s good news: All TED…
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In his latest book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown affirms the value of becoming and then remaining an essentialist, one who is committed “to the relentless pursuit of less but better. It does not mean occasionally giving…
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Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am…
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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 Mark Toro, managing partner and…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ben Casnocha for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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I recently re-read Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, written with Blake Masters, in which Peter Thiel identifies “four lessons that entrepreneurs learned from the dot-com crash, lessons [formulas] that still guide business thinking…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chiara Criscuolo for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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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 Greg Schott, chief executive of…
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The business wisdom of Warren Buffett
Here are ten of my favorite Buffett quotations: o It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. o What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. o Chains of habit are too…
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