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"The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth lies within their vision.
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Milwaukee will soon be hosting the first nationwide unGeeked Elite event. The conference is being organized by Cd Vann, owner of SohoBiztube. com, who defines unGeeking as "the widespread adoption of trends, strategies, and tools that allow us to enhance and embrace internal and external marketing campaigns, enhance customer service, strategize effective sales efforts, and develop better PR campaigns.
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"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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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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Business narratives took home the Pulitzer Prize in two separate categories this year—Biograghy and History.
Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World won top honors in History, and has been widely praised elsewhere, including winning the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and being the sole book in the business category to have been chosen in The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2009. (Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin was a runner-up in the category.
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