Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain ‘Highways’ : NPR
Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child’s brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another.
How Adults Achieve Happiness – BusinessWeek
Our findings were in many cases unexpected but clear-cut. There is an incredibly high correlation between people’s happiness and meaning at work and at home. In other words, those who experience happiness and meaning at work tend also to experience them outside of work. Those who are miserable on the job are usually miserable at home.
The implication is unmistakable. Since work and home are very different environments, our experience of happiness and meaning in life appears to have more to do with who we are than where we are. Rather than blaming our jobs, our managers, and our customers—or our friends, family members, and communities—for our negative worklife experience, we might be better served by looking in the mirror.
The Coming Fight for Executive Talent – BusinessWeek
I’ve shortened the title of my occasional posts on management issues to Turkeys. Any negative connotations are purely coincidental. This series of posts started while underwriting at my brother’s house and his gaggle of wild turkeys walked by. So say bye-bye to “Remote Underwriting With Turkeys”. Now we’re just talkin’ turkey.
And management issues.
A Photo Essay of Multiple Sclerosis – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
Follow this link to the NYT photo essay of multiple sclerosis. I personally know two people with MS. This photo essay puts a face to the disease and is worth five minutes of your time.
1.02 is the number of books I’ve read per week so far in 2009.
One more quarter to go.
I read this online Business Week article and I thought I was reading about myself. If I were to add my thoughts, I’d add:
Outsourcing Benefits U.S. Workers, Too – BusinessWeek
For the project workers who log in to oDesk every day to create their own job with decent pay, outsourcing is a wonderful thing—be it in Wyoming or New Delhi. Some have been forced from full-time jobs but many simply prefer to go it alone or to work with small groups. Scarred by a barrage of layoffs in recent years, these workers like the control over their lives and diversity in the source of paychecks.
Kind of puts a different perspective on retail sales figures, no?
EconomPic: Retail Sales in Perspective
We partner with others to barter tasks and resources as well as to synergistically enlarge our vision. We let them do what they enjoy and are good at so that we can do what we enjoy and are good at. The only trick is to find people who love to do things that we do not enjoy and partner with them to do it.
Dr. B. Curtis Hamm received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and is Professor Emeritus of the Spears School of Business and Consultant to the Oklahoma State University Foundation.
http://depts.washington.edu/hepstudy/index.html
To be honest, I still have some trouble keeping all of my hepatitis antibodies and surface antigens straight. Well, if you’re like me you will love the new link I added under Hepatitis (creative, no?).
Happy Hepatitis reading (lots of cool charts too).
You have to get people to make good decisions. Wherever you are in life, good or bad, it’s because of the choices you make. Choose to succeed rather than fail. Choose to work hard rather than to loaf your way through it. We had a plan, a vision and we wouldn’t compromise our core values.
Lou Holtz at his induction ceremony into the College Football Hall of Fame
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