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09.28.11Permalink: It’s Not Just Who You KnowIT'S NOT JUST WHO YOU KNOW Book Reviews by David Anderson and Eric LaRue Tommy Spaulding has built a successful career by being a leader and teaching others to be leaders. In his book, It's Not Just Who You Know, Spaulding acknowledges that his success is greatly due to living the credo of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. However, It's Not Just Who You Know does more than expand or update Carnegie's classic. Spaulding has re-imagined Carnegie's ideas and infused them with his own spirit. This is a book about love. Spaulding starts off with his own story of ...
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03.29.11The Power of PullThe Power of Pull Review by: John Lester with Sara McDermott In the past 100 years, the world has been changing at a rapid rate. Now, more than at any other time in history, both information and human connection can be delivered at an alarming speed; truly, the world is entering a new dimension of discovery and consumption. The Power of Pull discusses this phenomenon and how it affects everything and everyone, from an individual, to a company, to a nation. The title comes from authors John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison’s definition of ‘pull’ as “The ability to draw out ...
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03.21.11Permalink: Innovation Secrets of Steve JobsTHE INNOVATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS A book review by Steve Amoia Carmine Gallo is a respected business journalist by training. He created a company, Gallo Communications, that provides presentation, media training and communication skills advice for some of the world’s most recognized brands. His first book about the iconic CEO of Apple Computer, entitled The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, was a best seller. Gallo's newest offering, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success, no doubt will achieve similar success. This compelling book is a deep look into a man that figuratively and literally changed ...
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12.22.10Permalink: DIY UWANT AN EDUCATION? DO IT YOURSELF A book review by Adrienne Rodney In 2005 I borrowed $60,000 to take 12 classes in an 18 month master’s degree program in Journalism at Boston University. Now my boss is paying for me to take writing classes taught by professional writers at Gotham Writer’s Workshop for $395 a class – that is 92% less than the $5000 cost of a BU course. For more than a decade I will be paying off debt for a master’s degree that has proven to be neither a requirement for, nor guarantee of, getting a job. In my current job my ...
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12.13.10Permalink: The Happiness AdvantageTHE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE Adrienne Rodney Interviews Shawn Achor, Author of The Happiness Advantage Here are a few fallacies many of us believe: If only I had a job, then I’d be happy. Once I have all the material things I’ve been after, I won’t have time to be depressed. The grass is always greener. Shawn Achor, Harvard University psychologist, lecturer and author, says we’ve got it all wrong. Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. In his book, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work (2010, Crown Business), Achor presents the seven ways ...
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12.12.10Permalink: Master the Art of SellingHOW TO MASTER THE ART OF SELLING Book review by Frank McGrath At one time or another, everyone has gone to a networking function, returned with a stack of business cards, and said “well, now what?” That literal and figurative inert pile of cards is evidence of an evening of pleasant conversations - and not action. Talking to folks is an act of prospecting, a key part of networking. But the other key component is closing - a shared commitment to progress. Successful closing is the difference between networking and going to a cocktail party. Closing is ultimately a sales function- getting people ...
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11.02.10Permalink: LinchpinLINCHPIN: ARE YOU INDISPENSABLE? Book Review: by Steve Amoia Seth Godin is a best-selling author and well-known public speaker. His latest book, "Linchpin," reinforces many of the concepts that we promote at NSoW: Being different, creativity, innovation, generosity, personal networking and passion for your work. Mr. Godin teaches us that indispensable people, who he calls linchpins or artists, think "along the edges of boxes, because that's where things get done." Mr. Godin has written an entertaining, compelling and provocative work. He discussed how the workplace has evolved along with how our brain structure creates resistance for 9 to 5 success. I liked how ...
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08.04.10Permalink: Here Comes EverybodyHERE COMES EVERYBODY And They're Coming to Teach You Things You Need to Know By: Victoria Goldenberg Could No Shortage of Work (NSoW) have existed 20 years ago? The costs in time, money and labor to gather and direct members and run a publication might not have justified the modest and seemingly unrealistic ends of encouraging people to work for free. But now that the Internet is widely accessible, setting up the NSoW Web site was relatively inexpensive and easy. More important, communities commonly assemble around Web sites without anyone organizing them. The formerly difficult task of finding people and directing them ...
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07.14.10Permalink: Smash your TVSMASH IN YOUR TV AND SET YOUR MIND FREE by Brooke Allen I was eight when we got our first television. Although it cost a month’s take-home pay, my parents consumed it sparingly, as if it were candy. In the eighth grade I became interested in Amateur Radio, and lost interest in TVs configured as receivers, so I took one apart and rebuilt it as a shortwave transmitter. When my friends watched the Flintstones, I talked to people all over the world. Yet television is insidious and relentless, and by my senior year in high school, my father, mother, sister, and I would spend ...
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06.30.10Permalink: Jackie RobinsonHOW TO BE LIKE JACKIE ROBINSON: LIFE LESSONS FROM BASEBALL'S GREATEST HERO A book review by: Steve Amoia Pat Williams, who was assisted by Mike Sielski, has written a book about a famous American baseball player. (Baseball has the same popularity in the USA as cricket enjoys in Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies.) More importantly, this is the story about a great American: Mr. Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a man of incredible courage, character and integrity. It is a story that transcends sports. This tale epitomizes the tremendous burden carried on the shoulders of one man and how the ...
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05.18.10Permalink: Mintzberg on Coaching YourselfWANT A BUSINESS EDUCATION? - TRY ROLLING YOUR OWN A conversation with Henry Mintzberg, Professor of Management Studies at McGill University. By Brooke Allen, founder of No Shortage of Work “Perhaps business schools should issue recall notices.” These words were spoken last week by Henry Mintzberg, a featured speaker at a Fordham University conference titled, “MBA Under Siege: Reimagining Management Education” Because I feel my MBA is one of my all-time worst purchasing decisions, I gave Professor Mintzberg a call at his office in Montreal. I began, “As a hiring manager, I can report that there are lots of recently minted MBAs with upwards of ...
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05.14.10Permalink: Buffett Book ReviewThe Tao of Warren Buffett: A Book Review by Steve Amoia This physically small book delivers a very large message from one of our most admired and analyzed business leaders: Warren Buffett. He earned his billions by investing in conservative companies with strong balance sheets, along with passionate managers and subordinates who focused on the long-term. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, is a sterling example that has rewarded its shareholders for decades. Collection of 125 Quotes This book is a collection from 125 of Mr. Buffett's quotes on a variety of topics. The authors, Mary Buffett and David Clark, were a former daughter-in-law and ...
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04.26.10Permalink: WhuffieTHE WHUFFIE FACTOR a book review by Paul Share In The Whuffie Factor, author Tara Hunt tells the fascinating story of how, in recent years, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes have used social networking to succeed in business. Hunt notes that traditional advertising is experiencing diminishing returns, as people learn to block out messages from a bombardment of media. Which brings us to the concept and use of “whuffie”. Whuffie is a term coined by Cory Doctorow, a popular blogger, in a science fiction novel. He uses the term to describe social capital (or good will) in a future time when money ...
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WATCH THIS VIDEO to hear Daniel Pink describe what motivates people to work. This is what No Shortage of Work is all about.
If you are unemployed, you are autonomous. We help with purpose and mastery. If you are employed, find purpose in helping those who are not. NSoW is not a commercial venture; it is created by people who believe that creating something of intrinsic value is compensation enough. (Note: We are not affiliated with the producers of this video or Daniel Pink.)