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Reading About Spoiled Stops My Splurge – The End of the Line for Me at SMU Basketball Games

First Friday Book Synopsis

Reading Ron Lieber‘s best-seller entitled The opposite of spoiled: Raising kids who are grounded, generous, and smart about money (Harper Business, 2015) is quite an eye-opener. He is a personal finance columnist for the New York Times.

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Women on Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Strategy Driven

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

He succeeded in charming Wall Street … without ever deigning to participate in one of his company’s quarterly earnings conference calls or talking up its prospects on CNBC. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Obviously, if IBM hadn’t met the targets Palmisano and Loughridge set, it would have been a different story.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. impact of training on quality metrics) of their interventions.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Many of the leaders I interviewed also speak at conferences about diversity and write openly about its importance.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers

Harvard Business Review

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. Reminiscent of a Starbucks, the storefront includes a coffee bar, a conference table in an open area, and a couple of meeting rooms. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.