As a successful composer, Jeanine Cowen never had any intention of becoming a teacher. Her love of music attracted her to study at the Berklee College of Music and pursue a career scoring music for documentaries, TV shows and video games.
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When people in an organization see the organization’s leaders taking the time to teach, they understand that it is important and they learn to do it themselves. This culture of teaching starts at the top.
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Mackenzie Bezos (L) and Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com May 7, 2012 in New York City.
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Creating an online ad that goes viral requires more than mere entertainment. Thales S. Teixeira discusses the key to creating megahit marketing through advertising symbiosis.
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Searching for a hit movie In the movie The Internship (involving two ex-salesmen and their internship at Google), Billy McMahon, the character played by Vince Vaughn, notes “Sometimes the long shots pay off the biggest.” While this statement is...
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People get jobs by solving someone’s problem. People build businesses with systemic ways to solve a problem shared by many others
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For years the search economy built by Google (and others) allowed many people to make decent money by simply executing on certain SEO tactics more efficient
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Did you watch the Olympics? What an amazing time of unity, pride, and fun these past two weeks, right? I don’t know about you, but it’s just plain inspiring seeing the accomplishments of the athletes during the Olympic Games.
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“People are going to be most creative and productive when they’re doing something they’re really interested in. So having fun isn’t an outrageous idea at all.
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An avid rock climber, Marc Randolph notes that a climber’s path only becomes visible gradually, once the first steps have been taken and the climber is a few feet off the ground.
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It’s something I struggle with from time to time, but I override it by not tying my identity to accomplishment. Being un-busy is the kind of advice I wish I had learned years ago.
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Happiness is not about smiley faces, unicorns and light-hearted merriment. Nor is it about self-proclaimed gurus and their self-help anecdotes of supposed enlightenment.
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Emotions are a natural part of being a human being, and controlling them doesn't mean becoming a drone. However, how well we control our emotions drives how we treat others and ourselves.
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The only way you can command a higher salary is to make your employer more money than anyone else who could do your job.You make money for your employer by producing profitable goods that will be
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The basic view of emotional intelligence is that emotions aren’t necessarily the opposite of thinking, but a different way of thinking about different types of problems that exist in our world.
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If you can't communicate clearly, you can't do business.
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I’m looking forward to sharing posts from time to time about things I’ve learned in my career at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. (I also post frequently on my blog.)Last month, I went
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The more expensive strollers and cribs and organic diapers become, the better it is for everyone else.
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In their new book Keeping Up with the Quants , Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer tools to sharpen quantitative analysis and make better decisions..
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I am approached a lot by curious people who wonder how I'm always able to stay "energetic". That my energy is contagious - that I'm constantly smiling. They almost don't believe it. People
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Who would have thought watching the action-packed thriller, Iron Man, would teach me so much about entrepreneurship and running a company?
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The fundamental choice is whether to compete on price or on differentiation. Competing on price is a race to the bottom with no winners.
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Sarah Kauss founded S'well a company that makes superstylish stainless steel drinking bottles because the plastic variety clearly must go. In this new...
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Cars play an important role in our lives, and since we spend a lot of time with them, it's only natural that we learn a lot from the ownership.
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