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Re: Articles, Ideas, Books and/or Concepts that have changed your life

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Post by nickb »

pg wrote: post #28
rokhayakebe wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe "Let Our Options Go!" or "The American Semiconductor Industry: Winner or Whiners?" or "An Entrepreneur's View of American Competitiveness"

You might be able to find it by searching for "tobacco" because one point I remember was that the US government spent money on both subsidies for tobacco growers and anti-smoking campaigns.

http://www.cypress.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&...

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Post by bumbledraven »

skmurphy wrote: post #20

in no particular order: Myers-Brigs Model for Personality "Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank John Boyd's OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making Decision Analysis techniques: in particular decision trees, expected value of perfect information, and good decision bad outcome BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) concept for negotiation planning "Secrets of Consulting" by Gerald M. Wei…

http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/uploads/whatisai.pdf A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry

I started reading this and was amazed. It's written for organizations but it rings true when read as applying to an individual as well.

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Post by doubleplus »

bumbledraven wrote: post #8

Free 10-day Buddhist meditation retreats, incl. room & board, at one of the many Vipassana Meditation Centers world-wide ( http://www.dhamma.org ). Very old-school; the real deal. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0884270610 ). Most real-world systems have a single constraint that limit the system's ability to achieve goal units. The best way to improve the system is to (0) define…

Thanks a bunch for that dhamma.org link. I was just bitching the other day about how charging $200 for weekend retreats keeps Buddhism on the fringes here.

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Post by Tichy »

Fuca wrote: post #29

Tao te ching, Shakespeare, and the pharse "Your will only have 2 friends: your dad and a dollar in your pocket"

How is that phrase inspiring? It sounds very demotivating to me. (Other variation on the theme: "Want a friend? Get a dog").
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