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links for 2007-10-17
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Innovation Nation >> BusinessWeek | "America's Fleeting Edge in Innovation" John Kao, an innovation consultant, points out in his new book, Innovation Nation: How America Is "Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back, all the key advantages once enjoyed by the U. S.
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Excerpt from Recruit or Die
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The following is an excerpt from the book Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent by Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra, and Ramit Sethi. The authors share dozens of recruiting anecdotes that demonstrate the way successful recruiters make it happen, as well as show how not-so-successful recruiters blow it. Diversity Recruiting Diversity is one of the most difficult, and sometimes controversial, aspects of college recruiting.
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Ask 8cr! - Project Management
By Aaron Schleicher
Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We then take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Tomorrow: Bosses' Day
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Tomorrow's Bosses' Day. The level of enthusiasm for this Hallmark holiday varies from employee to employee -- I know folks who go so far as to buy their boss custom gift baskets to those who begrudgingly buy the boss a card from the corner store. Whatever your level of enthusiasm, the core of the day's mission is admirable -- that of showing appreciation.
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Authors In the Zines
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Business authors make prominent appearances in a number of magazines this month. Titled "Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency", Wired Magazine profiles the author and Getting Things Done in the greatest detail I have seen in the major media. Allen has a huge following in the tech community which plays perfectly to Wired's core audience.
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links for 2007-10-12
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McIlhenny's Gold>>The Wall Street Journal | Ingredients of a Family Fortune In "McIlhenny's Gold," Jeffrey Rothfeder, a former BusinessWeek editor, sets himself the ambitious goal of testing the truth of this founding legend and of drawing a historical profile of one of the oldest -- and most profitable -- family businesses in U.
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Excerpt from The Elephant and the Dragon
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The following excerpt is the introduction to The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith. * * * * * In June 2003, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India boarded a plane bound for Beijing. It was to be an historic trip.
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The New Red Pen
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I had a conversation yesterday with the general manager of our sister company about Web 2. 0 that got me thinking. The conversation actually began as a fascinating look at the world of pens and ink color, but that, like many conversations seem to these days, led us to a discussion of Web 2.
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Exclamation Points!
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From Monday's WSJ: Nancy Camarota, a customer-relations executive at Allied Waste Industries Inc. , said she thought it was odd when a Deloitte & Touche USA LLP consultant used an exclamation point in an email. 'Guys do not use exclamation points,' she thought.
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How Starbucks Saved My Life Interview with Michael Gates Gill
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If you haven't heard about Michael Gates Gill, the author of How Starbucks Saved My Life , he's lived a pretty incredible life that was turned completely upside-down. But, he's risen back to the top -- albeit in a much different way than his "old life. " It was a real pleasure to speak with him about the value of serving and respecting others.
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