Fri.Aug 05, 2011

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5 Reasons Why Middle Children Make Great Employees

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Donna Fenn for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * If you’ve ever uttered the words “troubled middle child,” you owe it to yourself [.].

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Glut: A book review by Bob Morris

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Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages Alex Wright Cornell University Press ((2007) How and why “the torch song of technological transcendentalism has passed from the visionary fringe into cultural mainstream” Alex Wright explains that in this volume, he approaches the story of the information age “by squarely looking backward&# and along the way, he (and [.].

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Just How Gullible (And Wrong) Can Randy Be? – (In Which I Admit To A Rather Embarrassing Mistake)

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So, this morning I was presenting my synopsis of Prescription for Excellence, a terrific book about customer service excellence by Joseph Michelli. In the midst of my presentation, I was talking about UCLA Health System’s commitment to innovation. From the book: “Innovation distinguishes between leaders and followers.” (Steve Jobs). The battlefield of business competition is [.].

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Paula Marantz Cohen on how to make books spark to life for college students

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paula Marantz Cohen and featured by The American Scholar magazine. As you probably know already, The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the [.].

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How to Cope with Your Incompetent Boss

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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. Everyone complains about his or her boss from time to time. But dealing with a truly incompetent boss is frustrating and exhausting. Here are three strategies to handle [.].

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50 Prosperity Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

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50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It, Share It Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2008) Henry Ford was right Note: This is one of the volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available in a softbound edition and priced at less than $15.00. In my opinion, the value of the material in each [.].

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