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14
Feb
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Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America’s Future

By Brian Crosby
I had a chance to pick up this book at Big Lot. I am going to have to pick it up now that I have chance to scan through the book.

In Smart Kids, Bad Schools, award-winning author and educator Brian Crosby draws on his twenty years as a high school English teacher to offer a candid appraisal of why our schools are failing and what we must do to save them. Crosby’s no-holds-barred critique of the broken education system leaves no stone unturned: he is unapologetic and uncompromising in his exposé of how teachers, administrators, unions, and parents all play a part in this national tragedy.

Crosby offers 38 ideas to save America’s future and his proposed remedies are revolutionary. He recommends bold measures, such as lengthening the school day and school year, forcing parents to volunteer at schools, abolishing homework, outlawing teachers unions, and cutting special education funding. The result is a book that is likely to inflame passions on all sides of the political spectrum, and, in the process, introduce new ideas to a debate that is in dire need of them.

10
Feb
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Change the Way You See Yourself

Through Asset-Based Thinking 
By Kathryn D. Cramer, Hank Wasiak

I love this book. Just picked it up yesterday when I went shopping with my wife and daughter at Marshall in Webster, NY.

I picked it up for only $3 and what a bargain !!
Check out this book and from now on, learn to see the world throught a different prism.

For most people, it is the way they think that determines their ultimate success in life. If someone has a really positive attitude towards life, then they are highly likely to find themselves in situations that will further their happiness and help them to achieve their ultimate goals in life. However, not everyone thinks in this way and this can prove detrimental to their happiness.

If you are one of these people, then this book ‘Change the Way You See Yourself’ is a must-read. It will help you to feel better about yourself, even if you are just going food shopping or playing party poker. It is the little things that make a big difference and if you make small, positive changes in your life then you will see great results

“Whatever you admire in someone, you have in yourself-if only but a glimmer. In fact, when a person’s talent, virtue, skill or attitude strikes you as amazing, you can be sure it’s something you want more of for yourself. You are ready, willing, and able to incorporate it into your repertoire of assets.”-from the Introduction
Change the Way You See Everything was a breakthrough book, which presented a transformational philosophy known as Asset-Based Thinking, or “ABT.” That book was able to instill success-oriented habits in even the most die-hard cynic, and inspired thousands to shift their thinking to reap monumental rewards both in work and in life. Now the authors are back to expand this powerful notion of Asset-Based Thinking-to guide people on how to change one’s own power, influence, and impact on the world. So while the first book taught readers how to view their world differently, this next book shows them how to see themselves differently. It will reveal that everyone is a leader in their own way, and that, through ABT, every person can plug into their unique power.

About the author (2008)
Hank Wasiak is co-founder of The Concept Farm, one of the hottest creative development companies in the world. He is an advertising industry icon who works with the corporate elite of global and domestic business. He lives in New York City. Kathryn D. Cramer, Ph.D. is a practicing psychologist, sought-after corporate consultant and speaker, and the author of several books on personal effectiveness and professional development. She is the founder of The Stress Center at St. Louis University, and managing partner of The Cramer Institute, an internationally recognized coaching and consulting firm. She lives in St. Louis, MO.

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30
Dec

How to be great staff member/employee

Customer services has gone to land of the dodo bird. Is so hard to find good customer services. Here is video with some really good nuggets on how to be a great staff/employee so that you can help you company generate more revenue and help you get notices. And trust me you will be notices, if not by your current employer by someone else.

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