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Five seniors at Lincoln Christian College, all business majors in the Principles of Management class, have organized a fundraiser for Special Olympics here in Lincoln, IL. The students in the course must organize some type of project that benefits another organization. The Race in the Park will take place on Saturday, November 8, and the [...]
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Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren gave a compelling 20-minute talk at the 2006 TED conference on leadership and living a meaningful life. Saddleback has over 22,000 members (it is the fourth largest church in the U.S.) and Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
I watched this video with [...]
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Here are some books and other online resources I’ve collected for students at Lincoln Christian College. I gave a presentation to the freshmen on managing their time well. Actually, it was more of an anti-time-management perspective: effectiveness depends on a great deal more than sorting through your daily task list.
Handouts
Resource List
Time Tracker Worksheet
Links
Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky, [...]
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Seth Godin’s new book on leadership, Tribes, came out this past week. You should be able to score a FREE version of the audiobook here. I’ve listened to about 3/4’s of it and it’s well worth a listen.
Seth has also created a presentation to accompany the book, and it’s available on SlideShare.
Seth Godin on Tribes
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The Cato Institute released its 2008 Fiscal Report Card on America’s Governors this week:
This ninth biennial fiscal report card examines the tax and spending decisions made by the governors since 2003. It uses statistical data to grade the governors on their taxing and spending records – governors who have cut taxes and spending the most [...]
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Higher taxes and more governmental control: A Liberal Supermajority – WSJ
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Oprah read Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind and it rocked her world. She gave a copy to everyone on her staff at Harpo Studios. She also gave 4,500 copies to the graduating class of Stanford when she delivered the commencement speech a few months ago. And she recently interviewed Dan Pink to discuss the [...]
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