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Here is another great TED talk, this one from TED last month in California. Are you happy? Here’s the TED summary:
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, [...]
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To be honest, I thought it was a joke; irony, perhaps, or sarcasm. But no, to my surprise, I clicked on Love Your Business More Than Your Family, a column on entrepreneur.com, and he’s serious. Author George Cloutier says:
Your cell phone is for keeping in touch with clients and sales managers in the field, not [...]
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Has this happened to you? You get an email or Twitter DM from somebody you’ve thought of as a friend, and it turns out it’s a sales pitch, mass communication, off of a list?
Disappointing. What? I’m a prospect? Bummer.
Not even a personal note (hey Tim, I was doing this mass email and I thought you [...]
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I’m so happy to see that the TED site, by far my favorite collection of online talks (I’ve posted several of them on this blog before), picked up this Robert Sapolsky talk. If you don’t see it here, or if you want to watch it in a higher quality HD mode, you can click here [...]
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I was going to do another strategy piece this morning, in keeping with the time for planning theme I’d thought I was doing for this week. But no. We can do business strategy next year. Instead, for this last work day of this long and less-than-stellar year, let’s please enjoy, now, this excellent new research [...]
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I’m really winding down now, taking a few days off, and hoping you’ll do the same. Wishing for peace. Goodwill towards all. Warm, happy, safe, loving holidays to you. And thank you. Here’s another (third this week) beautiful picture of Yosemite in winter.
(Photo credit: Jeff Banke, Shutterstock)
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Christopher is six years old. That’s his picture here to the right, taken a few months ago.
Last week one of his teachers shared this with me: She asked him what he does when he’s frustrated. He answered:
“Stop. Breathe. Think.”
He’s not a genius or anything like that, so I doubt he invented that solution all by [...]
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In case you’re wondering, my post here yesterday was also subtitled Holidays Part 1. (I did that in invisible ink, so you wouldn’t see it there. But it was.)
For part 2, keeping on with my holiday theme of moving back a bit from business, reflecting on what’s really important in life (even if just for a while, [...]
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This is Monday of the first of two holiday weeks. This is a good time to pull back a bit, reflect on things from a different perspective. It’s really good that our various religions, cultures, and traditions remind us, every once in a while, to slow down and think. Especially this year, which has been [...]
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Your business or your life? The nagging question comes up a lot. Recently I saw this startling statement:
Maximizing your chance for success means sacrificing health and family.
That was in this post by Jason Cohen on VentureBeat. He’s serious. He quotes Mark Cuban and one other successful entrepreneur. He says you can’t get it all done [...]
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