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The 20 Most-Watched TEDTalks

March 25, 2014

TED has just identified The 20 Most-Watched TEDTalks. Here’s a direct link to the article, one in which there are direct links to all of those TEDTalks. Enjoy! To learn more about TED, please click here.

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The Power of “Difference Thinking”

March 25, 2014

Although acknowledging one of Steve Jobs’s unique talents, Bernadette Jiwa suggests, “Difference thinking is more than the ability to connect the dots. It’s about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need…

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Michael Roberto: An interview by Bob Morris

March 24, 2014

Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. He has written two books: Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes For An Answer and Know What You Don’t Know. He has created two best-selling audio/video…

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Susan Cain on “The power of introverts”

March 24, 2014

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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Gallup: The Truth About Telecommuting

March 24, 2014

Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of the Gallup Organization. It is featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To check out all the articles posted by the website’s Influentials, please click here. * * *…

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9 Things Great Leaders Say Every Day

March 24, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bill Murphy Jr. for Inc. magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * People judge you by what you do–and…

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Church Ladies With Typewriters

March 23, 2014

They’re back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank Goodness for the church ladies with typewriters. These sentences really did appear in church bulletins or were announced at church services: The fee for the Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. * *…

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Michael Raynor on “Three rules for success”

March 23, 2014

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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Avinoam Nowogrodski (the chief executive of Clarizen) in “The Corner Office”

March 23, 2014

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Avinoam Nowogrodski, the chief executive…

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Herb Kelleher: The Thought Leader Interview

March 22, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Herb Kelleher by Chuck Lucier in 2004 when Kelleher was chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines. Durting the course of the interview, the co-founder and then chairman of Southwest Airlines tells…

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