Category: Life Lessons
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Amid a Crisis, There Is Opportunity – If You Act Now
Consumer research and strategy company Magid works with brands and media companies and has been tracking media consumption and consumer attitudes for decades. Their April research shows significant opportunities for brands and publishers: 69% of consumers say they are trying new brands right now. This represents an incredible opportunity for…
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Five Perceptions to Make Team Members Try Harder
Guest Post by Sarah Jacobs | At first glance, hiring employees for a company is not too difficult a task. However, if you take a closer look to what every company really needs, it might not be as easy as it looks. Yes, every company definitely needs employees to keep it…
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Five steps to empower your team
What would a story about business practices be without a Peter Drucker quote? “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” – Peter Drucker New manager soften make the mistake of feeling like they have to make every decision – and exert…
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New study links social media use to less gray matter in your brain
Too much Facebook = less brain cells, according to a study in the medical journal Behavioral Brain Research. The researchers did MRI scans of active 85 Facebook users. “Higher daily frequency of checking Facebook on the smartphone was robustly linked with smaller gray matter volumes of the nucleus accumbens,” the…
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My (failed) attempt to subscribe to the local newspaper
You’d think in this era of declining circulation a newspaper would jump the chance to add a print subscriber. Apparently not. I’m a bonafide news junkie. I watch TV News primarily and I’m online every day. But I still like to sit down and read the Sunday paper. There’s something about…
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Is society as we know it “broken?”
66% of US thinks it is, 58% around the world agree. It’s not just you. People around the world are questioning what’s happening their world these days. In fact, More than half (58%) think their society is “broken.” 71% lack confidence in their government and even more, 81%, lack confidence in…
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Morning inspiration: 19 quick quotes on being happy
Here are 19 quick quotes to help you remember, happiness begins by looking inward:
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Life lessons: Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford, 2005
I recently came across Steve Jobs’ commencement address to Stanford University graduates. The year was 2005. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but surgery would help him live until his death in 2011. He had three important things to tell those assembled: You can’t connect the dots looking forward;…
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