The Power of Your Speech, Libraries, Heroes, Comics, Donald Trump, Commitment, change

The Power of Your Speech
Language expert Wilfred Funk was one of the first to study highly successful men and women to determine what they have in common. What he discovered was that they all have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/the-power-of-your-speech/

Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to offer a new non-credit, continuing education course this fall. http://liblogger.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/libraries-and-immersive-learning-in-3d-virtual-environments/

Heroes
An inspirational read
http://pivotalpersonalbest.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/heroes/

Comics - trash or treasure?
Comics were seen during my childhood as trash - not serious reading or art at all. Now in the libraries where I work and live, "graphic novels" are all the buzz and comics are being taken seriously again.
http://communicationedge.blogspot.com/2007/09/comics-trash-or-treasure.html

Six Sanity-Saving Scenarios to Turn a Massive Breakdown into a Powerful Business Breakthrough
I’ve learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening – I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again.
Let’s look at a few examples of how breakdowns can occur in our business or life.
http://groworganisation.blogspot.com/2007/09/six-sanity-saving-scenarios-to-turn.html

Ten Questions with Donald Trump
http://pivotalpersonalbest.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-questions-with-donald-trump.html


What are you committed to?
What do you think of when you hear the word commitment?
http://pivotalbusinesssuccess.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-are-you-committed-to.html

Change or die
What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death?
http://pivotalchangeinnovationandcreativity.blogspot.com/2007/09/change-or-die.html