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Here is a brief article by Orion Jones for bigthink.com, a website that offers an abundant variety of information, insights, and counsel in videos, articles, playlists as well as material from experts and a special “Edge” section. I urge you…
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In the final chapter of his latest book, The High-Speed Company, written with Larry Haughton, Jason Jennings cites a conversation in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, Bluebeard, when the painter Rabo Kazrabekian listens to his neighbor, Paul Slazinger, who tells…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Matthew B. Crawford for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * A few years ago, in…
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In this brief video for bigthink.com, biographer Walter Isaacson discusses how Steve Jobs may have had a prickly personality, but his ability to build loyal and innovative teams was one of his greater talents. Walter Isaacson is a renowned biographer,…
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Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Boudreau and David Creelman for Talent Management magazine. They explain how and why the push to create standardized reporting opens the door to give the story behind the numbers. To…
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“It Don’t Cost Nuthin’ to be Nice” Paul (Bear) Bryant
Here is a reprise of a blog post that offers several valuable reminders now when civility remains an endangered species in our society. The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club meeting many…
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