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These simple strategies will keep you energized through the holidays and well into the new year. It's getting toward the end of the year, so with the holidays in sight, I thought it appropriate to give you all a little gift: a column that I guarantee will make you more more successful in the coming year. Here are 14 quick strategies to get and keep yourself motivated: 1.
Read More »Give Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself
Three questions you should ask to define the purpose of your company, and why. In my research into the origins of organizational purpose one thing impressed me about those leaders in the social service sector.
Read More »Many Teens Rely on the Pill for Non-Sexual Reasons
Many women are popping the pill for more than its pregnancy-prevention benefit, according to a study by the Guttmacher Institute. The study finds 33 percent of U.S
Read More »How Bad Plans And "Good Ideas" Ruin Meetings
Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.
Read More »How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down
It didn’t take long for the recent Foundation Questions Institute conference on the nature of time to delve into the purpose of life.
Read More »Password Prevented
Nobody seems to think much about passwords.
Read More »Best Flight Miles Management App: UsingMiles
Given the exorbitant fees and questionable valuation from mile- and point-swapping services, skillfully managing the rewards programs to which you already belong proves to be the smarter move. UsingMiles is a free and elegant app for this purpose, allowing you to manage all of your flight miles and hotel-rewards points from a single dashboard.
Read More »SCOTUS Backs ATT: Everyone Loses
There's pro-business and then there's pro-oligarchy. Our current Supreme Court, I believe, has crossed that line.
Read More »Mastering bandwidth: Researchers develop tunable, low-cost laser device
Transmitting information as pulses of light through fiber-optic cables is the fastest and highest-bandwidth communications technology that exists today. Yet even this technology is being pressed to carry ever-greater quantities of information.
Read More »Watches: Added Subtraction
To enhance a timepiece’s beauty, the designers at Piaget not so simply reduce its size. "Our business is to create thin and very elegant men’s watches," says company CEO Philippe L
Read More »Watches: Added Subtraction
To enhance a timepiece’s beauty, the designers at Piaget not so simply reduce its size. "Our business is to create thin and very elegant men’s watches," says company CEO Philippe L
Read More »Rare earths ‘replaced’ by silicon chip
Rare earths are an expensive and necessary component of strong permanent magnets.
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