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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jeff Weiner for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * In a previous post, I wrote…
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Too busy to read books? Here’s a direct link to valuable advice from Tim Ferris who explains how to read 300% faster in only 20 minutes. Meanwhile, busy as you no doubt are, you also need to check out Money…
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Opinions are divided as to what it means to be a human being. Here are several perspectives that are of special interest and value to me: “The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by <strong>Dan Levitin</strong> for <em>The New York Times</em> during which he offers some excellent advice on how to do less, do it slower with less stress, and accomplish more that is better.…
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In The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, Isaiah Berlin observes: “There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: ‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…
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A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker during which he explains how Italian mobsters climbed up the so-called “social ladder” by way of crime. For black criminals, the story has changed.…
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In 1986, Ed Bradley and his team from CBS’s 60 Minutes visited Jonathan Winters in his Beverly Hills home and, at one point, were joined by Robin Williams. Here is a link to what happened. Manic comic moments, to be…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Gregory Hickok for The New York Times during which he discusses two myths that are old, another that is new. He explains why all of them need to be debunked. To…
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Bill Gates on “3 Myths That Confuse the Debate Over America’s Schools”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bill Gates for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * I don’t know many business leaders…
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