Archive for November, 2008

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buy The Nativity Story

I was on Twitter a few hours ago and one of the tweets from David Meerman Scott was a link to Jonathan Fields new ebook The Fire Fly Manifesto. Just released today!
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download The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

It’s packed with great career advice but more importantly life [...]

Wisdom

10,000 Hours to success

Talent is overrated argues Malcolm Gladwell in his new book Outliers: The Story of Success Heartbreakers release . Although I have yet to read the book I’m fascinated by the idea behind the 10,000 hours needed to master a skill. Gladwell argues that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice.
“In [...]

Success

Useful questions for innovators

Did you know that a typical 5 year old asks 65 questions a day while a typical 40 something adult asks only about 6 questions day? It seems that the older we get the less questions we ask and therefore the less creative we become. We become so rigid on our beliefs of how things [...]

Thinking

What is Wisdom?

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
It’s on my wish list.
Virgin Territory on dvd  
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The Wisdom Project is inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell on “meaningful work”

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Here’s Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink Out There on dvd discussing some finding from his new book Outliers. Here speaking at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, he gives examples of The Beatles and Bill Gates and how hard work, pouring your heart and mind into something, results in meaningful work [...]

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