Mon.Sep 05, 2011

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Before You Try to Change Your Organization, Understand Why People Fight it So Fiercely

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Change is hard. Changing your organization is even harder – sometimes, nearly impossible. In doing the research for my new book, I discovered that a study at livescience.com revealed that nearly half of all smokers who have had surgery for early stage lung cancer go back to smoking in just a year! Jolt! : Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing by Phil Cooke.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

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Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … The graph below (see Figure 1) may seem boring, but it is the very reason I wake up excited every morning. (Clearly, I live a very exciting life.) It is also the basis of the research underlying this book. This is a scatter-plot diagram. Each dot represents an individual, and each axis represents some variable.

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