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Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™ Rankings announced

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Award winners were selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2006 to 2010. The Technology Fast 500™ is an annual ranking by Deloitte of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.

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The Winner’s Brain: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske with Liz Neporent DeCapo Press/Perseus Books Group (2011) How and why your brain can help you to become the best person you can be Note: I recently re-read this book, first published in 2010, and value what it offers [.].

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The Essential CIO: Insights from IBM’s Global Chief Information Officer Study (2011)

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How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? To find out, IBM interviewed 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. Public and private sector CIOs described both the challenges and opportunities from increasing complexity.

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Shortlist Announced for Financial Times and Goldman Sachs “Business Book of the Year” Award

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Thursday September 15th, 2011: The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs today announced the shortlist for the seventh annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (www.ft.com/bookaward), which aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.

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The best commencement address yet to be delivered: “Students Don’t Know Much About History”

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In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.”

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Don’t Know Much About History: David McCullough on “historical illiteracy”

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Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * The popular historian David McCullough says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.”

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Lights! Camera!… Interview!

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Here is an article written by Mike Prokopeak for the Talent Management Perspectives series featured by Talent Management magazine online (February 2011).