Commentaries

Are you willing to invest about 19 minutes to nourish your brain?

December 11, 2012

I urge you to click on this link so that you can watch a TED video during which Sir Ken Robinson explains how schools today are “killing” creativity in their students. It soon becomes obvious that he is a highly…

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My favorite church marquee messages

December 10, 2012

  “The best vitamin for a Christian is B1”    “Under same management for over 2000 years”    “Soul food served here”   “Beat the Christmas rush, come to church this Sunday!”    “Don’t wait for the hearse to take you to church”    “Don’t…

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Bennett & Vivian Levin Honor America’s Heroes On Special “Liberty Limited” Train to Army Navy Game

December 10, 2012

The annual Army-Navy football game was played last Saturday. There are so many interesting stories associated with this game since it was first played in 1890 at West Point, New York. The U.S. Naval Academy prevailed then, 24-20, and did…

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Sir Richard Branson’s “Five Secrets to Business Success”

December 10, 2012

Here is a brief blog post with a link to the complete article to which Sir Richard Branson refers. If there were a Rushmorean monument for entrepreneurs, he would undoubtably be among the four selected. Frankly, the older I get,…

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“Which business books should every executive keep near at hand?”

December 9, 2012

Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to have. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give…

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“What if I cannot afford a consultant?”

December 8, 2012

Not a weekday goes by that someone doesn’t tell me, “I can’t afford a consultant” or “Our company can’t afford a consultant.” That may well be true. However, fortunately, there is no shortage of information, insights, and advice available and…

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Two Routes to Resilience

December 8, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Clark G. Gilbert, Matthew J. Eyring, and Richard N. Foster for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. If you read this article, you will learn how to develop…

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Resilience Quotations: Part 3

December 8, 2012

o “Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you…yet, someone survived…You can do anything you choose to do.” Maya Angelou o “It is not the…

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Malcolm Gladwell on “Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation”

December 7, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from the archives of Malcolm Gladwell‘s articles for The New Yorker. To read the complete article and check out the other resources at his website, please click here. * * * In late 1979, a…

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Lincoln and leadership

December 7, 2012

A recent Schumpeter column published in The Economist, “Lincoln and leadership,” explains how and why outsiders can make the best leaders—and also the worst. To read the complete article, please click here. Illustration: Brett Ryder *     *     * IN MAY 1860…

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