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- Milton Glaser: The Fear of FailureA characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a genius. [...] So everybody gets this idea, if you go to art school, that you’re really a genius. Sadly, it isn’t true. Genius occurs very rarely. So the real embarrassing issue about failure is your own acknowledgement that you’re not a genius, that you’re not as good as you thoug […]
- People Who Let Go Unachievable Goals Have Better Quality of LifeReaching for the Moon? People who let go of unachievable old goals have a better quality of life, McGill University researchers have discovered. The discovery was made when they were studying data of breast cancer patients.Researchers had studied 176 breast cancer survivors between the ages of 28 and 79. Self-reports of the individual's capacity to adju […]
- How to design the best business card [infographic]How to design the best business card [infographic]
- Cardiac Arrest! What You Don't Know Will Kill You!© 2012 AED.com
- Project Management: 7 Tips for Managing Virtual Teams
- Three Minute Philosophy - Immanuel Kant - YouTubeToday would’ve been the 287th birthday of iconic German philosopher Immanuel Kant, father of the Categorical Imperative. To celebrate, here’s a witty and illuminating 3-minute digest of his life’s work from the wonderful Three-Minute Philosophy series.
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- Rypple Social Goals 2.0: Live Demo and Q&A - YouTubeHave questions on how to get started with Rypple Social Goals 2.0? Watch Meghan Gendelman from our Customer Success team as she demonstrates a new way for teams to stay focused on what really matters and make progress on shared goals.In less than an hour, you'll learn: * What's new in Social Goals 2.0 * Why customers like Spotify use it * How to ma […]
- Risk and Business Continuity - Managing for the unknownDo you have the right team in place to face a future filled with Unknown Risks? While the perilous unknown may be the stuff of sci-fi and doomsday movies, the potential for more mundane or fiscal danger is always around us.This should not provoke paranoia but rather a healthy sense of vigilance as well as skepticism. Executives need to be vigilant about what […]
- Project management lessons you can take from the Titanic disasterOne hundred years ago this month, RMS Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. More than fifteen hundred people died in that disaster.The event has been the subject of books and movies, but it also provides a few stark illustrations regarding project management mistakes and oversights.Here are seven lessons that relate to the sinking itself and three that inv […]
