First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2011
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals Heidi Grant Halvorson Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2010) How and why almost anyone can achieve the goals they set IF…. Others have their own reasons for praising this book. Here are five of mine. 1. The book is very well written. Heidi Grant Halvorson has accumulated, organized, and [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2011
I love to read. Not everybody does. I know some really, really smart people who read very little – at least, they read very few books, or even longform reads (what we used to call essays). Oh, they read lots and lots and lots of e-mails, business proposals, spreadsheets… They know how to learn. They [.].
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2011
Here is an excellent article written by Nigel Hollis for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Not long ago, a popular post on HBR‘s site, by Dan Pallotta, was [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2011
In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,&# Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I think everyone should be wary of replacing bound volumes with e-readers or replacing e-readers with bound [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2011
Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Alan Trefler, founder and chief executive of Pegasystems, a business technology company. He says it’s the job of each person [.].
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