The Tumbleweed Entrepreneur

Posted by on Nov 29, 2007 in entrepreneurship | 0 comments

Linda Katz began her website – Prairie Tumbleweed Farm as a joke, or rather a project, in order to help her learn how to design websites.  Now, she’s literally rolling it in…. one of her customers is NASA! Watch it...

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Discover the Truth About the Opposite Sex

Posted by on Nov 26, 2007 in communication, gender, learning | 2 comments

The Essential Difference, Simon Baron-Cohen, Penguin Books, 2004 The sub-title blurb of this seminal book is ‘Forget Mars and Venus, and Discover the Truth About the Opposite Sex’. Baron-Cohen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Cambridge University, goes out of his way to distance his book from its famous predecessor (John Gray, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus). This...

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There’s More to Decisions Than Deciding

Posted by on Nov 22, 2007 in communication, confidence | 0 comments

It’s interesting that many of the skills learned in management training classes are applicable outside the work and business environment.  Communication, problem-solving, negotiation – they are all intrinsic to our everyday lives in one form or another.   Perhaps in no other area is this so clear as in decision-making.  From deciding what to eat and when to sleep, this selective...

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What Are You Twittering About?

Posted by on Nov 19, 2007 in social media | 0 comments

Have you heard of Twitter? Flickr? Facebook? Keep up, please… The phenomenon that is called social networking has captured our hearts working and leisure hours! But what is social networking? The most simple definition is that it is an alternative way to network or make connections with people - online. Bebo www.bebo.com is a social networking site for teenagers. Facebook www.facebook.com...

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