Month: March 2015

Phil Holberton

Phil Holberton

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Mark Cuban: Moving from Bartender to Titan

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Mark Cuban is best known as the founder of Broadcast.Com, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a regular on “Shark Tank.”   What you may not know is that after graduating from college he launched his tech career by becoming…. a bartender.   Check out this summary of the rest of

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Have You Identified Your “Why”?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Successful people usually have a well-defined purpose in life.  That they have one and that it’s well defined is usually quite clear, but how he or she arrived at it often isn’t.    Here’s a compelling graphic that may help you or a young person in your life understand how to

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The Never Ending Danger of Losing Your ‘A’ Employees: Sniffing Out the Quitters

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Reading Time: < 1 minute I continually hear from CEOs that it is hard to find A players – we have lots of B’s and C’s and, unfortunately,  these types will not get us to the next level.  Labor markets get tight is already tight in manufacturing and will get tighter elsewhere as the economy continues

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Are You Committed for the Long Term?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a quick summary of  interesting research done on children who were learning to play a musical instrument.  It turns out that practice and talent were not the final determinants of success in music, but something much more basic.   Find out why if you want to learn a new skill

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Are you telling stories to yourself that have no basis in reality?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the great qualities that make us human is the ability to see patterns in a few data points.  The problem is we often convince ourselves that those patterns, especially those that augur good times or bad times, will persist indefinitely.  We can learn a valuable lesson from marketing

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Have you seen Jim Collins’ 12 GREAT Questions?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Jim Collins has become the pre-eminent management writer of our generation with such works as  Built to Last, Good to Great, How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice.   In recent years,  has been increasingly queried by executives as to how they could efficiently use this impressive, but voluminous,  body

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First Impressions – The Door to Future Realtionships

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Life’s a first impression business; a sad fact and perhaps unfair but there are ways to make it easier.   Consider these 25 psychological life hacks that will help you gain an advantage in social situations – these are good reminders for us all. Whether you are just beginning your career or

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Eleven “Second Acts” – Getting Back Up After Failing

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scott Fitzgerald (author of the “The Great Gatsby) once remarked that “there are no second acts in American lives.” History definitely seems to indicate otherwise.  A short article from Inc Magazine looks at eleven well known leaders who either had significant setbacks before becoming successful, or fell from the heights

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