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Sowing Wild Oats & Getting It Out of Your System - What's Really Happening

Building Personal Strength

His drive to achieve in class and in sports kept him on mostly on track during the wild ride of his teen journey. He was busy "sowing wild oats," experimenting with drugs until he dropped out of high school. Don't you need to sow some wild oats? One of her sisters told me that my mom was kind of a "wild child" as a teenager.

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10 Tips For Holiday Party Etiquette. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

If you have to talk business (taking cues from your boss), talk about what the company accomplished and what could be planned for 2011. Leave a Comment Previous post: Set Your 2011 Goals In Two Steps. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And you have to go to your office holiday party. Jewelry is a must. Smile or Die!

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Out-of-Control Teen Girls - Two Good Movies

Building Personal Strength

When the parents try to separate them, the girls create a plan to kill one of the mothers. While director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) probably didn't have this in mind, the film vividly illustrates the wild behavior that can happen while the reasoning part of the brain is still in development. Copyright 2011. Coates, Ph.D.,

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Heather McCulligh , Halogen Software Talent Management Blog : Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench - Most leaders and executives would strongly agree that an executive succession plan is critical to an organization's continued success.   Watch the video here , or feel free to download the PDF transcript.

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The Leader as a Venture Capitalist

Kevin Eikenberry

Rather than betting all resources of time, energy and money on one idea (deemed “the best&# by themselves or even the group), they fund and support multiple ideas and approaches, knowing that some won’t be successful and others will be wildly so.

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear that I’m not advocating brand snobbery, just astute brand management based on time tested success principles. Intelligent brands create at least some level of focused planning surrounding the issue of access to prevent overexposure. Once a brand is overexposed it becomes commoditized, diluted, and ultimately.

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Wisdom of Not Knowing…

CO2

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. The man just said, “We’ll see.” The man and his son corralled all 21 horses. All the neighbors came by saying, “Congratulations! This is such good news.