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First Friday Book Synopsis

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First Friday Book Synopsis

The topic of the #dsma chat this week was about carbs, which was a little ironic for me because I had just finished making cake pops with a friend. The dishes were actually still in the sink when I started to tweet. There are roughly a billion recipes for cake pops on the internet so I wont bore you with the details. Instead you can just enjoy the pictures.

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The Uneven Meritocracy – Women Beat Men In College, Lose To Men In The Workplace

First Friday Book Synopsis

Well, here is the sad fact: women are still considered “less than” by far too many (by the way, including some other women). The progress has not been great enough or fast enough. So, here is a whopping piece of insight from a recent NPR Diane Rehm program (NPR — this session guest-hosted by Susan [.].

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Would you lie on your Resume? – Reflections prompted by Timothy Olyphant (Justified)

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News Item: Justified (the program on FX) just won a Peabody Award The entertainment programs selected included The Good Wife, a CBS dramatic series about a political spouse’s life after her husband’s scandalous downfall, and Justified, FX’s modern-day Western set in the wild, wild hills and hollows of Appalachia. People distort reality.

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2 Tips for Making Your Goals Attainable

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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. * * * When you fail to meet your goals, you might blame yourself, thinking that you lack talent or willpower. In fact, [.].

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Anti-Union; Anti-High Tax Rate – Two Areas That I Think Deserve More Careful Thought

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I admit, I’m over my head, in so many ways, in so many areas. For example, Bob Morris (our blogging colleague) has written about, and obviously “gets,” these books based on brain research – I’m just pretty baffled. Maybe not enough of a science background; maybe just a general failure of intellect. But, at the [.].

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Today We Are Rich: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence Tim Sanders Tyndale House Publishers (2011) A grandmother for all seasons In this his latest book, Tim Sanders creates a context, a frame-of-reference, for several concepts introduced in earlier works, notably in Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go [.].

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If you forward this to ten people, you’ll probably save at least one life.

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here’s a very good article that takes only about two minutes to read. I’m sending this to persons I care about…and I hope you do too! Heart Attacks and Drinking Warm Water This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, so [.].

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