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Are you a maker or a manager?

I came across this great article recently about scheduling and time/project management. It divides the workplace into two types of people: "makers" and "managers." There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the...
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Using Humor

With the book basically done -- at least the writing part -- I've started focusing more on the marketing, starting with a new fan page (since Facebook doesn't let you change the names) and continuing this video series, and scripting out a bunch of new ones that I'll be appearing...
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In the News

Via Phil Konstantin It seems a new article appears somewhere every week validating the premise of the book. On Sunday, Maureen Dowd did a column about Jerry Brown's return to the Governor's mansion in California. Here's a particularly interesting insight: Noting that he followed actors into...
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