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When Being Different is No Longer Different
Posted on 25. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Last week I was wandering around a Barnes & Noble bookstore perusing the business titles when I noticed a trend. Instead of books titled around understandable topics like management, leadership, marketing, and strategy, there were hosts of books with oddball titles…most notably: How to Castrate a Bull. Now I know why authors and publishers do [...]
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The Healthy Balance Between Expendable and Indispensability
Posted on 18. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Today my son Dustin starts his first job at Burger King. Now that I have a kid in the workforce, my workforce advice has a true captive audience and I’ve got very high expectations. My list of advice was long: Show up early Find out exactly what you need to do and get it done [...]
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You’re Not That Special…Or Are You?
Posted on 12. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
This week, there is a viral YouTube video circulating the country featuring High School English teacher David McCullough Jr. giving the commencement address at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. In it, he flaunts the conventional graduation speech that wishes students well, instead delivering a diatribe about the way they’ve been made to think of themselves. [...]
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“You’re Not That Special” Graduation Speech – 2012
Posted on 11. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
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How to Build a Rocket Ship (for those who know nothing about rockets)
Posted on 04. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Last night I watched an interesting interview on 60 Minutes of SpaceX founder and CEO Ian Musk. He’s a 40-year-old entrepreneur who founded PayPal and then sold it to eBay. He rolled that money into his current company which is founded on his passion to travel into space. Now this guy is an interesting character. [...]
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Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Posted on 04. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Book #14 of 52 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking written by Susan Cain is a book that caught my eye in an airport book store. I’m a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner so I was immediately intrigued. Cain is an introvert and writes this book from her [...]
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Book Review: Breaking Through Plateaus
Posted on 04. Jun, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Book #13 of 52 Breaking Through Plateaus: How to Get Your Business Back on a Double-Digit Growth Curve By Creating a Culture That Automatically Produces It written by Bruce Johnson is the long-awaited work from my friend and colleague! Johnson was the former pastor of a church that he grew into a local mega-church from [...]
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Creating a Legacy Your Descendents Will Brag About
Posted on 31. May, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
The other night I watched a commercial promoting ancestry.com. Most of these feature people who find, serendipitously, that they are related to somebody famous. I’ve also heard people talk about how they can “channel” their great ancestors who were famous warriors or other ancient celebrities. Nobody it seems is related to average, regular people. In [...]
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How to be a Valuable, Problem-Solver
Posted on 20. May, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
I’m writing this post at 25,000 feet on a flight from Baltimore to San Antonio. While waiting for us to get past 10,000 feet so I could turn on my MacBook Air to do some work, I picked up the ever-present SkyMall catalog. If you’ve never seen one of these, they’re really quite amazing. Everything [...]
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Corporate Gray Job Fair – Malcolm’s Presentation Notes
Posted on 17. May, 2012 by Malcolm Munro.
Greetings! If you attended my workshop and want the speaker’s notes you can get them by clicking Corporate Gray Job Fair handouts Stay in touch! Malcolm Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
