Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

You dont have to give up because youve been down a lot of times.&# - Ray Charles, American singer-composer (1930-2004) Once you give up, the game is over. Thanks for the inspiring list of tips for keeping on in the face of obstacles. But hanging in there isnt easy. Major setbacks happen all the time, and they’re painful.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

And I worked on the first four versions of the book from late 1997 to late 2004. Blencoe provides tips on how to motivate employees in the video below. Why did you decide to use story telling as the way to deliver your book's messages? Blencoe : I actually started the first version of the book in late 1997.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Here is the research he cited : A 2004 Yale study found that a highly likeable sales rep will earn 40% more than an equally educated or experienced counterpart. Be likeable(another tip of the hat to Tim Sanders and his great book titled The Likeability Factor - and here is my recommendation for the book). A; Be real with people.

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Jason Womack

JANUARY 1, 2015

11 years ago was 2004. I’ve stopped reading the “quick tips” articles that abound on the internet. I know that may be obvious to you, but for a moment let that thought roll around your brain. Recently someone referred to “10 years ago) and I realized my thought was, “Oh, back in the 1990s." Then, I had to do a double-take. .

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. That type of expansion often kills a culture; in fact, while Marco’s growth numbers looked great on paper, employee morale began to nosedive.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A pioneer in the field, Rand’s personal brand got strapped to a rocket when he started his company, Moz, in 2004. From her incarceration for “insider trading” charges in 2004, she found a way to rejoin her company and eventually gain the senior leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. making the effort isn't a choice anymore — we've reached a tipping point where eschewing social networking means severely limiting your connections and cultural literacy. But for most people, at least in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town. "At As you can imagine, this is where things get complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

” They continue: “The fact that almost 9 of the 10 participants continued to use the system after the quota [had been attained] suggests that a ‘tipping point’ may have been reached. If it had not, then a vicious cycle might have ensued, and cooperation would have plummeted.” ” But it didn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

In a similar vein, research with adults (including this 2004 study ) has linked the ability to be future-oriented–to favor larger long-term gains over smaller immediate ones–to superior financial, work, and health outcomes. It’s a trait any manager should value among members of their team. So where does pride fit in?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

All the email tips, strategies and systems I have seen — my own included — rest on two fundamental assumptions: If you're working smartly and efficiently, you can appropriately process (read, file and/or respond to) every email you receive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It is part shared confessional with peers and part trading research, strategies, tips and lifehacks that DeGroot collects and analyzes for best practices. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. This was also true for Michelle Hickox.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

” You know the type of thing – hints, tips, and sage advice focused on making the most of an engagement where the presenter does all the talking and the audience is only allowed to interject during the Q&A session (or if they’re feeling particularly brave/aggrieved, when they stick their hands up and ask questions).

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I’ve been business blogging since 2004 and really took the deep dive experiment into social media over two years ago and I’ve never looked back. What are your tips for building a following? Chris, you have a pretty good idea there – let me see what I can do. All the best to you all, Terry Kevin W.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2 (2004): 349–399. In sum, as Malcolm Gladwell illustrated in his book The Tipping Point , networks run on “connectors,” people who are linked to almost everyone else in a few steps and who connect the rest of us to the world. Burt, “Structural Holes and Good Ideas,” American Journal of Sociology 110, no.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. The book details the five behaviors that help power innovation success (associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting), and provides a raft of practical tips to get better at innovation. Horace Dediu. Braden Kelley.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When David White became Global VP of Supply Chain at Campbell Soup Company in 2004, the company had a shocking lost-time injury rate of 1.24%. This was the tipping point. Martin Diebel/Getty Images. These were bad injuries, not just burns or cuts. David’s caring made an impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. Here are some tips on how to do that. “Startups are no longer niche; they have gone mainstream,” says Daniel Gulati, coauthor of Passion & Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

When Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. What other tips can you share? Some seven years and 800 million users later, the social network has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and is fast becoming the dominant communication platform of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It was he who, in his blockbuster book, The Tipping Point , laid out his now famous “Law of the Few,” which he stated as: The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. It’s the wrong metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

For instance, Gibson points out that in 2004 Amazon wished its customers “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas,” some schools listed a “Winter Break” on their calendars rather than a “Christmas Break,” and the holiday stamps put out by the U.S.

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