Tue.Oct 18, 2011

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Michael Lewis: The Financial Crisis is a Moral Crisis

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Iceland; Ireland; Greece; California. They are all in trouble – deep, serious trouble. The debts are massive. The way out looks… well, there doesn’t seem to be a very workable way out. And the financial situation in other corners of the globe have ripple effects in every corner of the globe like never before. What [.].

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Books on my Reading List – Tomatoland & Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

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I wish I had more hours to read. I am behind on my fiction reading (50 years behind); my business book reading; my general nonfiction reading. I’m just behind! But here are two books on my reading list. I just bought Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Eastabrook for my [.].

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A video of Teresa Amabile’s TEDx program in Atlanta

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Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Originally educated as a chemist, Teresa received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday [.].

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