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Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation
TED has a talk entitled, “The Suprising Science of Motivation,” where career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. With a trio of influential bestsellers, Dan Pink has changed the way companies view…
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Generation X; Analog to Digital
In the same way saw the Greatest Generation saw the change from horse drawn carriages to automobiles and the birth of airplanes to the rise of the space shuttle, Generation X has seen firsthand the transition from analog to digital: carbon copies to CC: and BCC:, and a slide rule to an iPod. GenXers began…
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Analyzing Actions
I decided to do a little research on how this blog was doing. I went to Google Analytics, which records data on what keywords visitors use to find this site and exported the data into Microsoft Excel. Data has a funny way of changing your realities from what your gut thinks to actual reality. What…
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Generation X, Y – Two Letters, Two Jobs
I’ve noticed a trend in our generation (the subset between Generation X and Y, The MTV Generation): two jobs. Almost everyone I work with and everyone in my family has two jobs. I have two jobs and even my wife has two jobs [Edit: She had two jobs before having kids, now she has one…
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This is Our Time
Like the kid said in the Goonies under the wishing well, this is our time, down here. Down here in the recession is our time to shine. The CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, thinks this moment of our lives will shape the next 25 years. The decisions we make now are the ones that people…
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A Rainy Day is the Best Time to Sell and Umbrella; How to Become Successful in a Recession
Now that America is in an Awakening, we need manufacturing more than ever. Start in the ground. What raw materials do we have to work with? Fossil fuels for energy (hundreds of years of coal, at least ten years of oil, and some natural gas to boot) Copper (a third is still in the ground,…
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How to Turn the Ship Around – Just Say the Word, Captain
Have you ever heard the expression that, “It is not all about semantics, it is ALL about semantics.”? Why are we in a recession? Because we said we were – and so it was. Ask and you shall receive. This could be a domino effect from excessive margin trading on Wall Street, a multi-national debasement…