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Day jobs
By 800-CEO-READ
I've been thinking a lot today about "day jobs" and what that concept means to people. For some, it's what they do, it's what they're good at, and for lack of a better term, it's their lives. For others, it's something they use, to pay the bills while they wait for something better to come along, or to fund projects they're working on outside of work, that don't make enough money to survive on.
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Mental Health
By Porchlight
"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends, if they seem OK, then you're the one.
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Health
By Porchlight
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
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Making Ideas Happen on inBubbleWrap
By 800-CEO-READ
If you haven't been keeping up with Sally over on inBubbleWrap, I humbly recommend you start doing so. And this week would be a good time to start, because she is giving away Scott Belsky's wonderful new book, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality. She named her post "Making Your Dreams Real," which may sound hyperbolic, but if you're a creative person (whether you're starting a business or a novel) you know that "Making Ideas Happen" really is "Making Your Dreams Real.
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Idleness
By Porchlight
"Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
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The Greatest Gamble Ever
By 800-CEO-READ
Gregory Zuckerheim's The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History tells of how Paulson "realized something few others suspected—that the housing market and the value of sub-prime mortgages we grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. " But it turns out that "The Greatest Trade Ever" may have been something very akin to a rigged bet. What the book didn't tell us (because it was unknown at the time) is that Paulson had shaped the portfolio of mortgages—hand-picking the bonds it contained for Goldman Sachs—that he bet against to make his fortune.
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Leadercast
By 800-CEO-READ
For those in the Milwaukee area, Kelly Leadership Group is hosting a Leadercast session on May 7, 2010 at Crowne Plaza in Wauwatosa. Tickets and more details can be found at www. kellyleadershipgroup.
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Truth
By Porchlight
"The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth lies within their vision.
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Pulling
By 800-CEO-READ
With developments in technology, and the effects they are having on our lives; how we think, research, question, and seek, there's a lot to be said about how we're changing how we work and interact. Two recent books address that through the definition of 'Pull,' David Siegel's Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business and John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison's The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. Siegel's book talks about how the web is changing, and how it will infiltrate more and more into our lives though our interaction with it (working in the cloud) and physical material (ex.
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Truth--serious and fun
By Porchlight
"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. " Julius Charles Hare "I don't want yesmen around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth--even though it costs him his job.
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