Mon.Feb 13, 2012

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Are They Telling Us The Truth? – Maybe The Issue Of The Era (60 Minutes Reveals a Liar)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Who can we trust? Who can we trust to tell us the truth? Especially, when the truth really matters? This is not a new concern. And, the sense that more and more people seem to be so untrustworthy may be a false sense. I suspect that if we picked any decade, from any century, thoughtful [.].

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Quiet: A book review by Bob Morris

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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How to Prepare for Unintended Consequences

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Unintended consequences are common in business. Well-meaning managers often implement new policies only to find that in addition to what they envisioned, they’ve also created problems. [.].

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We Will Miss Jeffrey Zaslow

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By now, in the same weekend that we lost Whitney Houston, you have learned of the fatal accident that claimed the life of Wall Street Journal columnist and author Jeffrey Zaslow. You can read the full account of that accident and a history of his life by clicking on this link that takes you to [.].

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