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Alaska, Bad Weather and Building an Oil Pipeline

Great Results Team Building

Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams. But Parcells’ point is that we need to focus on the pipeline. Has your team been distracted by uncomfortable conditions? It is a leader’s job to ignore those distractions and get the job done.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Zimbardo and colleagues are interested especially in temporal biases in which these learned cognitive categories are not “balanced&# according to situations, contexts and demands, but one or another are utilized excessively or underutilized.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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