Life has been rich, full, and busy. Thankfully, business for me has been good.
These are my excuses for not reading a book a week.
I’ve managed to read about half a book a week this year through the end of September. The 4Q has traditionally been a low reading period due to football, hockey, basketball, and baseball playoffs. The number of RSS feeds I have decided to follow have increased. This website is taking more time to maintain.
What to do…what to do?
Guest Post: What’s Going On In The Gulf? « naked capitalism
Oil? What oil?
There are two links near the bottom of this article concerning possible human health consequences from the spill. We now know about the respiratory and possible cancer issues of 9/11 survivors and workers having inhaled lots of stuff. Pay attention to your Gulf Shore applicants for unusual rashes or symptoms.
Medical News: Green Veggies Cut Diabetes Risk – in Endocrinology, Diabetes from MedPage Today
Increasing the daily intake of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, a British meta-analysis found.
Consuming 1.35 servings of these vegetables per day was associated with a 14% reduction in risk compared with consuming only 0.2 servings (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.96, P=0.01), according to Patrice Carter, a PhD student at the University of Leicester, and colleagues.
Managing the Productivity Paradox – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
This is an HBR IdeaCast podcast interview with Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working.
Take 15 minutes and learn a little about ultradian rhythms and the way we work.
One Volcano, 4 Friends, and Many Career Ideas | paulacaligiuri.com
Opportunities, even those that change your plans in unexpected ways, may be exactly the ones that will help move your career – and your life – in a wonderful direction.
Attitude. And I’ll keep posting about this so that it sinks in and sticks.
I made a new friend the other day. While catching up on my non-book reading I came across a manifesto from http://changethis.com/ with the title Get a Life, Not a Job. My curiosity took hold; I thought this short essay might help me figure out where I’m headed in my life and career, so I read it. Then I contacted the author to tell her how much I liked her manifesto. Now we’ve connected on LinkedIn and I’ve made a new friend.
My new friend’s name is Paula Caligiuri. The following bio comes from her website:
Paula Caligiuri, Ph.D. is a work psychologist dedicated to helping people navigate the professional and personal challenges associated with their careers. She is the author of several books including Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You, which FT Press will publish in April 2010, and the career blog. Dr. Caligiuri is a frequent contributor to CNN on career and management topics and has completed a pilot for a television show, CareerWATCH.
Dr. Caligiuri is also a Professor in the Human Resource Management Department at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses in career management and global human resources at the masters, PhD, and executive levels. She is an internationally recognized expert on global careers and strategic human resource management. She has lectured in numerous universities and has been a speaker for many major corporations in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
As a consultant, Dr. Caligiuri is the President of Caligiuri and Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that advises leading global organizations on ways to ensure the success of their internationally-oriented talent through assessment, training, and development.
Dr. Caligiuri holds a M.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State University in industrial and organizational psychology.
The book should be an awesome read. You can get a copy of Paula’s manifesto by clicking the link below. I’ve also added a link to her website on my sidebar. I get a steady stream of visitors to my site who are looking for work. I do hope you find or create what you are looking for.
Facing Up to the Demographic Dilemma
This is a thought provoking article on the challenges and opportunities aging populations present to businesses. Under Article Tools you can click the PDF button for a reprint rather than page through multiple web pages. It still fascinates me to watch businesses in the US shed competent people of all ages while ignoring future workforce and critical skills needs.
Social Networks Play a Major Part in How We Get News [STATS]
I use Bloglines as my RSS aggregator and this blog to highlight and pass along articles of interest. My posts also appear on my Plaxo and LinkedIn pages. Tweets and retweets are delivered to a small band of followers and on my LinkedIn page.
It’s a wonder how I get any work done.
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