From Brainware
July 13, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Businesspeople often make the mistake of first thinking about relationships when they have real need. That might be when an offer is on the negotiating table, when you're facing ... (
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From Brainware
July 10, 2010 at 11:01 am
In the long run, we're going to live here together, or we're going to die here together.
--Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbis for Human Rights
In thursday's column Nicholas Kristof ... (
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From Brainware
July 8, 2010 at 7:21 am
Power corrupts, but, argues Rosabeth Kanter, so does powerlessness. We're all familiar with the famous remark of Lord Acton that power corrupts. Kanter makes a strong and ... (
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From Brainware
July 4, 2010 at 10:34 am
In a WSJ article by Emmeline Zhao, the old issue of the value of Grad School is once again surfaced. Zhao points out that "for many, a grad-school stint doesn't pay off ... (
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From Brainware
July 2, 2010 at 12:19 am
How does someone raise almost $1 million before his 19th birthday?
--Belinda Luscombe, Senior Editor, Tim
This is an instance when the quotation is just a simple question. ... (
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From Brainware
June 29, 2010 at 9:33 pm
When I want it to stick, I give it to them loud and dirty.
--Gen. George S. Patton, WW II Commander
About once a year this topic comes up in a consulting gig. Still, I was intrigued ... (
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From Brainware
June 28, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I’ve been thinking an awful lot about the huge interest in my blog, Can You Really Change Your Personality?. While in Detroit working on a couple major projects (there ... (
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From Brainware
June 28, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I’ve been thinking an awful lot about the huge interest in my blog, Can You Really Change Your Personality. While in Detroit working on a couple major projects (there ... (
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From Brainware
June 28, 2010 at 12:22 am
Because of labor interests on the left and anti-tax folks on the extreme right, nothing gets done.
--Eli Broad, L.A. philanthropist commenting on the California dysfunction
Broad's ... (
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From Brainware
June 22, 2010 at 11:35 am
Reading about General McChrystal's lack of political smarts, I could not but think of the dustup between Truman and MacArthur. The issues were largely different, but in one sense, ... (
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From Brainware
June 20, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I was surprised to read, this morning, that according the U.S. Census Bureau, fathers are the caregivers for about one-quarter of the nation’s preschoolers. I ... (
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From Brainware
June 19, 2010 at 11:34 pm
The headlines about jobs are pretty stark, already two years into this recession. We’re learning that even when the market recovers, some jobs won’t return, that short ... (
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From Brainware
June 18, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Sitting with a group of technology managers, discussing the difficulty of working with their internal clients, one member of the group was quick to point out a certain client ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 11:24 pm
The research has been around for a long time. It has to do with our looks as members of the human race. Most by now know that a large majority of U.S. presidents were taller ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 9:05 am
For many college students, the cost of a four-year university degree and living away from home may place an impossible barrier in front of them. Now, there's a way around that ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 12:01 am
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a timely article on the difficulty some/many have relaxing on vacation. As the article suggests, relaxing on vacation is hard work.
Attached ... (
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From Brainware
June 16, 2010 at 9:55 am
If you'd like new insight into how to vent your spleen with fascinating venom and deeply felt hostility, I suggest you skim a few of the more than 110 comments attached to Alan ... (
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From Brainware
June 14, 2010 at 2:58 pm
It's rare to read a review as glowing as Dwight Garner's which had me from the start with its title, "To Err is Human. And How! And Why!", and was published June ... (
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From Brainware
June 10, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Nearly all effective and successful leaders have had significant mentoring at key points in their life and career. As a result mentoring ought to be a high agenda for the ambitious. ... (
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From Brainware
June 10, 2010 at 7:28 am
I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers.
--Steve Jobs, speaking at the Wall Street Journal's digital conference in California, June 2
In an onstage interview ... (
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From Brainware
June 7, 2010 at 12:24 am
This is a question that surfaces periodically among new clients. The answer? It all depends on how you define "personality." Personality differs from skills or ... (
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From Brainware
June 4, 2010 at 9:22 am
US employers added 431,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. Most economists had expected more than 500,000 new jobs, but. ... (
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From Brainware
June 4, 2010 at 8:22 am
Israel and the rest of the world seem to be speaking dissonant moral languages.
--Yossi Klein Halevi, Fellow at hte Sahlom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
This morning's Wall Street ... (
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From Brainware
June 3, 2010 at 10:02 am
If you're watching the economy--and your own future--here's the information on the best barometer.
WASHINGTON — New claims for US unemployment benefits fell to 453,000 for ... (
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From Brainware
June 2, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I've set my title question up for the obvious answer. NO! I was not surprised to see research supporting that conclusion. An MSNBC blogger, Eve Tahmincioglu, says that CareerXroads, ... (
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