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Mark Roberti on Big Data and RFID: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In 2002, he launched RFID Journal on the Web as an independent source of news and information for business and IT executives looking to tap RFID’s enormous potential. Mark Roberti has reported on business for major publications worldwide since 1985. He is widely regarded as a thought leader in the RFID industry.

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NCAA's Leadership Failure in Governing the Commercialization of College Sports

Coaching Tip

College football has never been more prosperous, with five of the major college sports conferences recently signing billion-dollar broadcast deals.

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The Role Beauty Plays In Our Success At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examine the career progression of 752 economists who all graduated from leading doctoral programs across the United States between 2002 and 2006. They suggest that this might be because economists commonly present their papers at conferences, which draws the connection between their physical appearance and their work.

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What is Your New Business Model for 2010?

Women's Leadership Exchange

a company known for its live conferences since 2002, is presenting the first Virtual Summit for Women Business Owners and Professionals, www.womensleadershipexchange.com (and men can attend, too) on Wednesday, May 26. So the theme of the virtual conference ?A What is my company?s s new business model? The Huffington Post.

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Dancing Priest: How a Book Was Born

Ron Edmondson

It was 2002. I talked with editors and agents at a writer’s conference. He’s married with two grown sons and two grandsons. He’s also a deacon at Central Presbyterian Church. I asked Glynn to share how a book that impressed me came to be. Here’s his story. He sang one song, “Luna Rosa,” in Italian, which I don’t speak.

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“How to Be Exceptional” is Destined to be a Landmark Leadership Book

The Practical Leader

Then there are those destined to become classics of new knowledge , the way Jim Collin’s 2002 title Good to Great did … Zenger and Folkman published an excellent book the same year as Good to Great called The Extraordinary Leader (click on title for my 2003 review) I have routinely recommended to audiences. .”

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The Best Leaders Are Insatiable Learners

Harvard Business Review

Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. When you’re a kid,” he says, “every day is full of firsts, full of new experiences.

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