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"D" words are being used quite liberally these days.
Double Dip. Dollar.
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We are now accepting submissions for our annual Business Book Awards! Categories for submission are as follows:
Leadership
Management
Entrepreneurship/Small Business
Finance/Economics
Marketing and Sales
Personal Development
Innovation/Creativity
General Business
Entries are open until October 15, 2011, and all submissions must be books that were, or will be, published within 2011. Winners will be announced in January, 2012.
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We held annual 800-CEO-READ summer picnic/croquet tournament yesterday. As we do every year, we all gathered at Jack's house. Being good Wisconsinites, we grill up some meat in tube form and fresh corn, grab a drink and settle into the back yard.
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The Right Fight by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, Harper, 234 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, 2010, ISBN 9780061717161
The most common metaphor for alignment within a company, it seems, refers to everyone needing to pull on the same oars. Authors Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, in their book, The Right Fight, define this nautically-tinged tenet with a bit more specificity than I just did: "To accomplish anything, the logic goes, employees must agree about the mission, strategy, and goals of an organization.
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Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was named the new poet laureate of the United States. NPR's story on Levine describes his work this way: "Born in Detroit in 1928, Levine has used his poetry to examine blue-collar life, often embroidering everyday events with a sense of myth. " He has been described as the "Whitman of the industrial heartland" and commonly as 'the working man's poet'.
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