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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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Mike Paton has spent a lifetime learning from and sharing with entrepreneurs. The product of an entrepreneurial household, he cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last seven years, he’s been…
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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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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ron Friedman 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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The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self — Not Just Your “Good” Self — Drives Success and Fulfillment Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2014) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then,…
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Self-anointed “experts” on race relations and economic inequality continue to blog (i.e. bloviate) about what happened in Selma, Alabama (on March 9, 1965), and what lessons can be learned from it that apply to race relations today, there and elsewhere,…
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It will be a sad day for me when Jon Stewart is no longer with The Daily Show (except in spirit) but at least he will continue to be involved in activities that amuse as well as inform those who…
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Jon Kolko is Vice President of Consumer Design at Blackboard; he joined Blackboard with the acquisition of MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students succeed in college and get jobs. Jon is also the Founder and Director of Austin Center…
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Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) Ellen J. Langer DeCapo/Perseus Group (2014) How and why almost anyone can achieve mindfulness that will accelerate personal growth and professional development Note: This review is of the 25th Anniversary Edition. No…
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Changing the Performance Management Mindset
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sebastian Bailey for Talent Management magazine. He suggests that, as ‘rank and yank’ dominates the debate, talent leaders would be wise to focus the discussion on eliminating traditional manager biases and…
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