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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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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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From a guest post by Tim Clark at Get Rich Slowly:
…entrepreneurship is about you helping other people to achieve their goals.
This is obvious when you think about it. Business is all about satisfying customers, right? Well, to satisfy customers, you need to help them save money, solve annoying problems, experience more satisfaction or pleasure, or earn a [...]
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Fans of the most excellent (and free) Internet radio app Pandora may soon have to get their free music fix elsewhere. According to this story in the Washington Post, government regulations have doubled the royalties that Internet radio stations must pay performers; by contrast, traditional radio stations pay no such fees. Pandora expects to pay [...]
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This is what happens when the whole organization tries to design something. They’d do well to read Meatball Sundae.
Hat tip to Seth.
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I share a lot of blog/news articles via Google Reader. If you’d like to know whether what I’m reading would also interest you, you can add me as a Google “friend:” mgowin@gmail.com. You can probably help me find some things that aren’t on my radar as well.
If you’re not into Google Reader, here are some [...]
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As Dan Pink reminded us, one of Johnny Bunko’s "excellent mistakes" involved the development of an athletic shoe with seeds emedded in the sole. The seeds would be deposited on the ground as the wearer walked about, and eventually sprout all manner of greenness. Guy Kawasaki now points us to an invention that uses your [...]
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Patti Becker, Human Resources Manager at Eaton Corporation in Lincoln, Illinois, spoke to one of my classes about employment communication (resumes, cover letters, interviewing) this week. Eaton is a global corporation with 79,000 employees worldwide. Patti has been involved with human resources at the 650-employee Lincoln plant for 20 years and brought [...]
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“Writing skills are fundamental in business. It’s increasingly important to be able to convey content in a tight, logical, direct manner, particularly in a fast-paced technological environment.”
“The skills of new college graduates are deplorable—across the board; spelling, grammar, sentence structure . . . I can’t believe people come out of college now not [...]
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Timothy Ferriss, author of the infamous The 4-Hour Workweek, was interviewed on the iinnovate podcast last summer. If you’ve been on the fence about whether to read the book, take 30 minutes and listen to this interview. Ferriss discusses
The diminshing returns most workers face (the "results by volume" approach)
Time management and personal [...]
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