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Where are the jobs, really? Answers vary. Some responses suggest specific vocations, others specify geographic areas, and still others predict there will be fewer full-time jobs except those requiring endurance rather than talent or skill. What does Thomas Friedman think? From The…
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Arlene Johnson has just launched a new online resource, The Connector, that combines her own material with material contributed by others. I urge you to check it out and sign up for a subscription by clicking here. Meanwhile, here is…
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Here is an article written by Amy Levin-Epstein for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. Photo Credit: Damian Yerrick/Wikimedia Commons * * …
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The new and fully updated edition of Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds has just been published. He explains how to learn to become much more creative. In Chapter 3, “The Trouble with Education,” he introduces what he characterizes as “The Septic Focus” when discussing his…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Getting people to do what…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dwayne Spradlin for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * *…
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Here is a brief excerpt from the feature article in The American Scholar written by Jane Warwick Yoder and Edwin M. Yoder Jr. They discuss “a friendship between two couples that yields insights into a presidency and a marriage.” The American Scholar is…
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I read Michael Michalko’s first book, Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius, when it was published in 1998 by Ten Speed Press. According to Michalko, how best to “crack the barriers to human creativity”? Here are his suggestions, accompanied by my annotations. o…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by James Fallows and featured in The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * This…
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Ken Robinson on the arts and the sciences
In his latest book, Ken Robinson observes in Chapter 7 that being creative is not only about thinking; it is also about feeling. For example, “Among the legacies of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are many common-sense but mistaken assumptions about the differences between the arts…
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