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Recently, I was at a popular electronic "super store" (think Circuit City/Best Buy type). I was browsing through the DVDs and noticed a flaw, basically due to the fact that I'm a big trivia geek: most of The Thin Man mystery series were shelved with movie musicals like Grease, West Side Story and everything Elvis. Odd, right?
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Another listing of titles in Spanish came to my attention! These can be great as gifts for bi-lingual clients or employees! If you want to place an order for any of these books, let me know (roy@800ceoread.
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A rather interesting book was released last week by Pear Press entitled Brain Rules. It was written by the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, John J. Medina, and he writes in the introduction:
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
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Myself and Other Important Matters>>The Wall Street Journal | A Business Guru's Portfolio Life
"Myself and Other More Important Matters" is a charming autobiography, recounting Mr. Handy's life in genial prose. Like the best Oxford tutorials, it is much more substantial than it first appears.
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The following is my letter to the editors of Fast Company Magazine on Elizabeth Spiers recent column in their publication. You can read Spiers column here. Kate wrote about it earlier in the week, and I couldn't let it pass either.
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