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This is just a short post to give a shout out to our friend Steve Little. Today at lunch, when the waitress took our drink orders, Michele asked for hot chocolate. It's getting to be fall here in Wisconsin, so hot drinks are common requests.
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This week BusinessWeek ran a profile of our friend Seth Godin.
Godin's ability to synthesize and combine topics helps account for his broad influence. "Some people want a deep dive; they want metrics.
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Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers: More than 50 Icebreakers, Energizers, and Other Creative Activities That Get Results by Brian Cole Miller is an easy book to consult when you want to kick off a group meeting in a fun way.
Here are a few creative activities to get the group started:
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David Foster Wallace died on September 12. I have read his collections of essays and I appreciated his, as The Wall Street Journal states "blending inventive language, intellect, humor, philosophy and cultural references in his writing. " Someday I will tackle his novels.
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Peter Drucker 's body of work is mostly recognized in the business community, but he spent an enormous amount of time thinking about the non-profit sector.
One of his many legacies is the New York-based Leader to Leader Institute, an organization that focuses on developing leadership in the social sector. The Institute has updated and reissued a book that was written for non-profits originally but works for any organization.
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