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My Favorite Quotations About Women: Part 2

January 29, 2013

o Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well! — Barbara Bush o “Any fool knows men…

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This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

January 29, 2013

The website Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an “interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large,” who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has gotten occasional help from a handful of…

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Simon Pont: An interview by Bob Morris

January 29, 2013

Simon Pont is a writer, commentator and brand-builder. Hollywood movie studios, Icelandic investment banks, British chocolate bars and Middle Eastern airlines figure amongst his time on the inside of Adland. He is the author of The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention…

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Emily Bennington asks, “Who says it’s a man’s world?”

January 28, 2013

Emily Bennington is holding her breath. Well, not literally, but with a new book coming out this month, she’s certainly feeling the “excited energy” as she calls it. Good thing she knows how to thrive under pressure. Actually, Emily’s latest…

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Lydia Dishman on ” The 5 rules of happy employees”

January 28, 2013

Lydia Dishman notes that, in her book It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace, Anne Kreamer points to recent research from Sigal Barsade of the Wharton School of Business that indicates positive moods prompt “more flexible decision-making and…

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Resonant Leadership: A CD review by Bob Morris

January 28, 2013

Resonant Leadership: Inspiring Others Through Emotional Intelligence Richard Boyatzis More Than Sound (2009) How to renew yourself and connect with others through mindfulness, hope, and compassion As I began to listen to the first of three CDs that comprise this…

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The 3 Power Values

January 28, 2013

The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance David Gebler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to meet the challenge of keeping organizational constants and variables in proper alignment In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests…

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How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

January 27, 2013

I know of no other single online source that offers more educational videos of superior quality than does TED, a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:…

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Daniel Goleman on “How to Find Your Flow”

January 27, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Daniel Goleman and featured by LinkedIn. *      *       * Where we want to be on the Yerkes-Dodson arc is the zone of optimal performance, known as “flow” in the research…

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Victoria Ransom (Wildfire) in “The Corner Office”

January 27, 2013

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 Victoria Ransom, chief executive of…

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