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I recently watched Daniel Pink‘s speech from TED on the gap between the science of motivation and the actions of most businesses. If you aren’t familiar with Pink, his book “A Whole New Mind” is one of BGE’s most recommended reads and describes the game changing shift from the knowledge economy to the creative economy. His latest [...] I recently completed Sylvia Lafair’s book “Don’t Bring it to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success”. As the title suggests, this book is focused on how family behaviors manifest themselves at work, and how, by recognizing these patterns, you can change them and improve your relationships and be more successful. In the interest of full [...] I read this blog post from Jim Pinto today and it got me thinking about the difference between access to information, and learning. Pinto seems to be arguing that the information revolution will make “traditional” universities irrelevant because the lecture-learn-test paradigm no longer requires physical presence. This is a sound position and I do not disagree. There [...] I listened in on a very interesting teleconference this week through a service called Author Teleseminars (free membership) with Keith Ferrazzi, author of “Who’s Got Your Back“. Also on the call were Authors Daniel Pink (“A Whole New Mind“) and Pam Slim (“Escape From Cubicle Nation“). It was an excellent seminar focused on the importance of [...] Michael Mandel has an interesting article at BusinessWeek where he speculates that part of the blame for the current economic slump can be placed on a failure to innovate over the last decade. This is somewhat shocking at first, given all the hype innovation has received in the business world and the general press. On the [...] |
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