Entries by bronwynr

Judgement and strength of a leader

The greatest psychological challenge in setting and acting on priorities has to do with resource allocation. Whether in a group meeting or through conventional budgeting and capital approval processes, you have to demonstrate judgment and courage in making resource allocation decisions that reflect your business priorities and in following through to ensure that the things that should […]

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Learn lessons from an academy-award winning slide strategist

(WEBINAR) with Nancy Duarte Why did Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” win an Academy Award? It was, in large part, how the information was illustrated that made it impactful. Nancy Duarte’s firm created those visuals. She’ll share how to adapt what worked for an Oscar-winning documentary to your presentations. You have worked hard to prepare […]

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The Highest-Paid Authors

Times may be tough for book sellers, but for Stephen King, James Patterson and Stephenie Meyer, the money keeps rolling in. Publishers are feeling the heat, with hardcover sales weak and the rise of e-books promising to upend their business models. But the world's 10 top-earning authors are making out just fine, earning a combined […]

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The future of ICT

Stephen Downes comments on "A report on the outcomes of the ICT cluster that the (European) Commission has set up under the Education and Training 2010 programme as part of the Lisbon objectives set for 2010" Recommendations include "A need for envisioning future learning that is more efficient, equitable, innovative and meaningful than it ever […]

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Power Your Mind To Master Creative Visualization

Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create pictures of yourself achieving a desired goal or outcome and focusing on that image until you achieve your objective. Thought is a power and has its effect on the material world. Thoughts, if powerful enough, travel from one mind to another. If we keep […]

5 tips for improving your reading comprehension

I spent the better part of 17 years in and out of higher education. Eleven of those years were invested in taking classes and pursuing degrees. In the process of having to read a lot of books and articles that I didn't really have time to read, I began asking myself, "Isn't there a more […]

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