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  • Ben Rattray: How Change.org Leveraged Tech To Change Health Care
    Social Change | May 24, 2013 Ben Rattray: How Change.org Leveraged Tech To Change Health Care

    Health advocates have tried to remove "pink slime" (a controversial beef product) from school lunches for almost a decade. As Ben Rattray told VentureBeat in an interview, Texas mom Bettina Siegel successfully petitioned to have the USDA pull the product from lunches in a single week....

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  • Human Capital: Jessica Jackley On Building Relationships & Social Change
    Social Change | May 24, 2013 Human Capital: Jessica Jackley On Building Relationships & Social Change

    Jessica Jackley, a thought leader for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, doesn't believe in prescriptives in life. As the social change speaker explains in a new interview, the most meaningful acts aren't driven by guilt or obligation. Rather, it's the sense of fulfillment people get...

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  • Leadership Under Pressure: Lewis MacKenzie On Effective Management
    Leadership | May 24, 2013 Leadership Under Pressure: Lewis MacKenzie On Effective Management

    — As leadership speaker and retired Major General Lewis MacKenzie says, anyone can lead a team when times are easy. Unfortunately, as he tells the crowd at the Compliance Week 2013 annual conference, the business leaders of today are generally...

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  • Work Hard—But Take Time To Enjoy Your Money, Too: Elizabeth Dunn on CNN
    Economics | May 24, 2013 Work Hard—But Take Time To Enjoy Your Money, Too: Elizabeth Dunn on CNN

    "The logic is so simple: If I work hard now, the money I earn will give me the opportunity to do all the things that make me happy later," Elizabeth Dunn and Happy Money co-author Mike Norton write in a CNN blog post. We assume that if we work hard...

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  • <em>Half-Life</em>: How Joshua Prager Exerted "Agency Over An Ungovernable Act"
    Motivation | May 23, 2013 Half-Life: How Joshua Prager Exerted "Agency Over An Ungovernable Act"

    — After a terrible car accident left Joshua Prager with a broken neck (which initially rendered him a temporary quadriplegic, and, eventually, left him a hemiplegic) he was full of questions. "Was it owing to the crash that I was not married, that I was ever-mindful of time, that people seemed to tell me what they told no one else?" the motivation speaker writes in a new

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  • James Weatherall: If Math Can't Help Solve Economic Problems—What Can?
    Science | May 22, 2013 James Weatherall: If Math Can't Help Solve Economic Problems—What Can?

    "The Physics of Wall Street  [by James Owen Weatherall] is a thoroughly researched history of modern physics and finance, with lucid explanations of fractals, derivatives and other esoteric topics,"

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#Salaries & bonuses are generally effective—if limited—motivators,” says Elizabeth Dunn, co-author of Happy #Money: http://t.co/TWw8s8jX9S

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