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Mind Wide Open: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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Leadership in the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association

Coaching Tip

Lance Camper Manufacturing Corp. Sid Johnson. Jayco, Inc. The RV Financing Community. Pete Liegl. Forest River, Inc. Wade Thompson. Thor Industries. Jim Sheldon. Monaco Coach Corporation. Don Walter. Starcraft RV. Airxcel, Inc. Thompson Associates, Inc. Thomas Faludy. Carefree of Colorado. Bob Tiffin.

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The Research On ROI Of Employee Engagement

Six Disciplines

A 2006 Watson Wyatt study involving 12,750 workers across a range of different sectors demonstrated that the three-year total return to shareholders was 36% higher in organizations with high-employee commitment.

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Are Veterans More Ethical Leaders?

LDRLB

A recently completed working paper by Efaim Benmelech of Harvard and Carola Frydman of Boston University, studied companies run by CEOs with military experience from 1980 to 2006 with the intent of examining whether military experience led to a signature leadership style.

Ethics 156
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Divided We Stand: Treating Corporate America’s Loneliness Epidemic

Michael Lee Stallard

A nationwide survey published in the American Sociological Review in 2006 shows that despite our proud motto, Americans are lonelier now than ever before. In 1985, and then again in 2004, the General Social Survey (GSS) asked Americans about their close social networks. The results were alarming.

Cacioppo 150
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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

Mr. Wien was named to the 2004 Smart Money Power 30 list of Wall Street’s most influential investors, thinkers, enforcers, policy makers, players and market movers. In 2006, Mr. Wien was named by New York Magazine as one of the sixteen most influential people in Wall Street. He appeared in the “Thinker” category.

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More Policies, More Problems

LDRLB

Ciulla (2004) argues that when organizations stress performance, leaders can be tempted to act unethical to meet performance goals. Gladwell (2006). He uses the example of Enron, whose misdeeds were mostly public and because there was so much information, it was overlooked. Ciulla, J. Ethics: The heart of leadership (2nd ed.).