Wed.Jan 04, 2012

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What Does Warren Buffett Know That Steve Jobs Didn’t?

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I thought it was interesting when Warren Buffett made a major turnaround and chose to invest in a traditional newspaper. On November 30, Berkshire Hathaway, where Buffett is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, purchased the Omaha World-Herald Company, publisher of six daily papers in Nebraska and Iowa. Such a deal is counter to the flow of [.].

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Creative Communication Network Announces Charitable Support for 2012

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Creative Communication Network is pleased to announce three campaigns in 2012 benefiting charitable causes that we wish to support. Please join with us in our efforts. For one month in each quarter, CCN will donate and match the proceeds from the First Friday Book Synopsis and contribute those funds directly to each of these charities. We will [.].

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My Best of 2011

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Here you go – this is my list of the Best of 2011 in a number of categories. Best Business Book: The 3rd Alternative by Stephen Covey (New York: Free Press) – this book explains and promotes a tired “win-win” philosophy in a fresh way, opening up applications in multiple contexts for many people who [.].

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The Never-Finished Book: Problems with Perpetual In-Progress Revising

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One of the most popular books for our CCN on-site presentations last year was The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr (New York: Norton, 2010). In that book, he discusses how the Internet tinkers with the brain, reamps its neural circuitry, and reprograms the memory. While the mind [.].

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His Hour Upon the Stage

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Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article written by Douglas L. Wilson and featured online by the website of The American Scholar, the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four [.].

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One on One: A book review by Bob Morris

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One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game John Feinstein Little, Brown & Company (2011) Memorable moments and unforgettable people during a ten-book journey…thus far…featured in an eleventh book Others have their reasons for holding this book in high regard. Here are three of mine. First, with all due respect to [.].

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