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• 08.04.10
  Permalink: Here Comes Everybody Book Review, Collaborating, Education, Lessons Learned, Motivation, Networking, Working for Free | (1)

  HERE 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 ...
• 07.14.10
  Permalink: Smash your TV Book Review, Conversations, Motivation, Philosophy, TV Alternatives, Working for Free | (2)

  SMASH 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 ...
• 06.30.10
  Permalink: Jackie Robinson Book Review, Lessons Learned, Motivation | (0)

  HOW 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 ...
• 06.02.10
  Permalink: Tracy on Career Change Career Advice, Job Hunting, Motivation, Philosophy | (0)

  THREE KEYS TO CAREER CHANGE How making the right changes will ensure success at finding a new job or career. by Brian Tracy You can always find or create a job for yourself if you are willing to change your job, change your location or change the amount you’re asking to a lower amount. If there is insufficient demand for your particular skills and experience, first you will have to learn to do something else and provide skills that are currently in demand.  Employers don't care about your past.  They care only about your future and your ability to contribute value to ...
• 05.14.10
  Permalink: Buffett Book Review Book Review, Lessons Learned, Motivation | (0)

  The 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 ...
• 03.27.10
  Permalink: Are You Desperate Job Hunting, Lessons Learned, Motivation, Philosophy, Psychology | (1)

  ARE YOU DESPERATE? Why is it that lazy people accuse people who are helping themselves of acting out of desperation? I was waiting for the uptown #6 subway train in New York City when I overheard a conversation between two men in early middle-age; one standing and the other sitting. The one sitting said “The market sucks; I can’t get a job.” The one standing said, “I know. I lost my job at the end of 2008 and I couldn’t find anything for nearly a year.” “Tell me about it. I haven’t worked since then either. At first I wondered what was wrong with me, ...