marketing expenses, kids comics, insomnia, information

Stop Paying Your Business expenses
Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of GuerrillaMarketing, has created a report called
“The Guerrilla Balance Sheet”
which claims that businesses can turn their expenses into profit centers.
The idea is that if you profit at everything you do you’ll never run out of cash again…

David Fickling to Launch Weekly Comic

“In my own experience, the link between reading a comic and reading a book is wonderful and exciting,” says publisher David Fickling,

Curing Insomnia Without the Pills
Dreaming of better sleep? (Rahav Segev/The New York Times)
Better sleep doesn’t have to come in a pill.
For people with chronic insomnia, studies show that simple behavioral and psychological treatments work just as well, and sometimes better, than popular medications,

School librarian: We’re on information overload
A school librarian suspects that the tipping point in information overload has tipped…

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