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A Whack on the Side of the Head
– Roger Von Oech

“It’s difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you’re always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.”  In our day to day lives, we seldom have a need to think outside the box. We tend to do […]

Health care should be a team sport
– Eric Dishman

From TED.com When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care — by putting the patient at the center […]

How to build your creative confidence
– David Kelley

From TED.com Is your school or workplace divided into “creatives” versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create… (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated […]

Getting to YES
– Roger Fisher and William L. Ury

Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Reissued in 1991 with additional authorship credit to Bruce Patton, the book made appearances for years on the Business Week” Best Seller” list. The book suggests a method called “principled negotiation or negotiation of merits.” Members of the Harvard Negotiation […]

Less stuff, more happiness
– Graham Hill

From TED.com Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability, and tweets […]

McDonald’s: Behind The Arches
– John F. Love

McDonald’s is the story of an American business success, a company that proved the value of hard work, ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instincts. In McDonald’s: Behind the Arches, business writer John F. Love tells the astonishing story of the people and the strategies, the innovation and the brilliance that turned a single hamburger stand into a […]

Come to the Edge…

Come to the edge, he said, “We might fall”. Come to the edge, he said, “It’s too high!” COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed them…. And they flew!

How to Win Friends & Influence People
– Dale Carnegie

You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, […]

Growth, Change

Growth is painful, Change is painful. But NOTHING is as painful AS STAYING STUCK SOMEWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became […]

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