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Blog / ChangeThis
The Best Communicator in the World
By Jon Wortmann
"I hear people every day offer very valid excuses why they don't try to improve how they communicate. Some people think it's too hard. Others don't know where to go for help. The most repeated excuse from people at work and in their personal lives that could be so much happier with some focused, intentional new habits: 'I don't have time.' Every single one of us can communicate in a way that makes it easier for people to like spending time with us. If you feel shy, nervous, or afraid, you're not crazy, you're not alone, and today is the day you stop letting ugly communication damage your relationships. Authentic communication can become as natural as breathing—when you pay attention to a few essential aspects of what connects people."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 67
By 800-CEO-READ
The latest issue of ChangeThis has been published for all of you out there in the thinking public. Take it out for a spin tonight. Introduce it to your friends.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
What can you make?
By 800-CEO-READ
I just posted this question on Twitter and LinkedIn and got a lot of interesting responses. From paper snowflakes, to muffins, to cookies, to photos, to records; these are the things that first came to people's minds when considering the question. These things are what they like to make.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
What's in a name?
By 800-CEO-READ
I know a lot of people who just don't read business books. It's just not something they're interested in. Maybe the perception is that a book can't provide all the answers, or that they'll figure things out on their own.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Rubber Macondo.
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
In the early part of the last century, Henry Ford was one of the most influential and admired men in the world. He was an industrialist-philosopher, building a new, mechanized Eden in America. He hired men of every color, nation and religion and payed them an unheard-of five dollars a day to stand in one place at work and live a clean life at home (Ford had a Sociological Department that sent hundreds of agents into Dearborn and Detroit to investigate employee's lives and write up personnel reports).
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Stressed out?
By 800-CEO-READ
2009 was a challenging year, and the challenges haven't stopped in 2010. In fact, we all are likely working even harder to dig ourselves out of last year, or maintain our solid standing in the current one. With that work, comes stress, and unless we manage that stress properly, our hearts will pay the price.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Elbowroom: Space the Final Frontier
By 800-CEO-READ
The time has come for 800CEOREAD to move into their new space! It's been a long time coming and we're still trying out different things that work for us to get settled in nice and cozy like. Here's a few pictures of what it's like so far.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Twitter gifts
By Sally Haldorson
I'm torn about Twitter. Most days I struggle with what to add to our company Twitter account. While I can write a haiku at a drop of a hat, I blank out when trying to create potent 140 character messages.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
"Do Cool Stuff that Lasts"
By Sally Haldorson
There's a new article today on Salon titled: Healthcare Reform Rock Star, featuring one of our favorite authors, Atul Gawande. Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, books we copiously recommended. And his first book, Complications, garnered rave reviews.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Entrepreneur stories?
By 800-CEO-READ
Scott Gerber, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine, has a book coming out on Wiley this year, titled, Never Get a Real Job, and is now in the process of collecting war stories from entrepreneurs - experiences they've had that were challenging, but helped shape how their businesses formed. Do you have a story? Watch Scott's video below for instructions on how to submit.
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