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25 Dec 09

Along Came Polly Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Ben Stiller movie

  • [Irving]
    It's always the same story
    with you, huh, pal?



    You did this one movie
    a hundred years ago.



    From then on, you thought
    you were better than everybody else.



    Why don't you let go?
    Move on with your life.



    It's not about
    what happened in the past...



    or what you think
    might happen in the future.



    It's about the ride, for Christ's sake.



    There's no point going through
    all this crap...



    if you're not gonna
    enjoy the ride.



    And you know what?
    When you least expect it,



    something great might come along...



    something better
    than you even planned for.



    You were funny as hell
    playing those bagpipes, though.



    Did I ever tell you that?
15 Nov 09

BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog

  • Most notably, after all the years of legal wrangling over Christmas and holiday festivities in public schools, a substitute teacher in California (appropriately named Merry) is collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would mandate—yes, mandate—that schools in the Golden State offer Christmas carols.

Editorial - Reform and Medical Costs - NYTimes.com

  • The fundamental fix — reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, dysfunctional system — is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.
  • educe the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.
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Globalization and Human Rights - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Some 75 million children of primary-school age are not attending school, and 225 million older children are not attending secondary school. The UN estimates that $11 billion a year could get these younger kids in primary school by 2015. The Global Campaign for Education calls for $16 billion in new spending a year to get kids in primary school and junior high school. My own calculations are that if you aim to get 90 percent of these kids in school (the last 10 percent are always the hardest), that could be done much more cheaply. Simply deworming kids, at 50 cents per person per year, substantially increases school attendance. So does a free school lunch program (through UNICEF and WFP), at 11 cents per child per school day.
01 Nov 09

Page 2 | Project Manager vs. Project Leader

  • If a PM is going to be a true leader, they have to be able to do more than that. One of the hardest but most important things that a PM has to do is to say no. Not every project can be completed on time, on budget and on scope. There are times when the right approach is not to try and motivate the team for one more big effort, for one more all-nighter, for just one additional weekend in the office. There are times when the right approach is to push back and not let the team be pushed through additional stress with no prospect of a positive outcome.
  • There is one other vital opportunity for PMs to demonstrate leadership, and that is in the development of their project teams. To my mind, every project should have an additional goal – to deliver increased organizational project capability as a result of completing the project. The project team (and the individuals within it) is more capable in their work on projects as a result of their involvement on the project.
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18 Oct 09

A Nobel Prize For Leadership? - washingtonpost.com

  • There should be a Nobel Prize for Leadership, and it should go to the best "servant leader" we can find. My nomination
12 Oct 09

There’s No Task Easier Than No Task

  • When we read articles and books on productivity, getting things done, effectiveness, it’s not because we want to be hyperefficient or as speedy as Gonzales. It’s because we’d like to accomplish Something Amazing.
  • And the best way to get there is to keep things as simple as possible. What are the fewest number of steps required to get there? How can we remove busy work and distractions and wasteful meetings and needless tasks?
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Think Simple Now

  • Rote memorization is an inefficient way to learn. Just retaining a single formula can mean pounding the same information into your skull dozens of times.

Obama got the Nobel because he's a game changer | Salon

  • Alfred Nobel outlined in his will the grounds on which the Peace Prize was to be given, saying it should go annually to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses." The modern committee considers work toward the reduction of nuclear arsenals in the same light as the reduction of standing armies
  • Barack Obama was given the prize because he is a game changer. Obama has dedicated himself to reducing and ultimately scrapping the nuclear arsenals that threaten the world with nuclear winter or a destruction of the ozone layer; either event would be catastrophic for human beings' existence on the planet.
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11 Oct 09

Rowan University - Jobs

  • An earned doctorate (Ed.D. or Ph.D.
  • knowledge in educational leadership and change and/or organizational behavior
04 Oct 09

Universalis: Office of Readings

  • he only purpose of this instruction is that there should be love, coming out of a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith. There are some people who have gone off the straight course and taken a road that leads to empty speculation;
30 Sep 09

Struggling Helps Students Master Math | Edutopia

  • New Jersey teachers have found a surprising way to keep students engaged and successful: They let underachieving youngsters get frustrated by math.
  • "We've found there is a healthy amount of frustration that's productive; there is a satisfaction after having struggled with it," says Roberta Schorr, associate professor in Rutgers University at Newark's Urban Education Department. Her group has also found that, though conventional wisdom says certain abilities are innate, a lot of kids' talents and abilities go unnoticed unless they are effectively challenged; the key is to do it in a nurturing environment.

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Cyberbullying: A Legal Review

  • Before disciplining a student for out-of-school speech, school officials need to show that the speech materially and substantially disrupted, or had the potential to disrupt, the operation of the school or interfered with the rights of other students

Blogging Innovation: Managing Innovation is about Managing Change - Latest innovation articles, videos, and insights

  • A leading innovation and marketing blog from Braden Kelley of Business Strategy Innovation




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  • Innovation is about change. Companies that successfully innovate in a repeatable fashion have one thing in common - they are good at managing change.
29 Sep 09

The 35 Greatest Speeches in History | The Art of Manliness

  • Of course, in one sense, the first essential for a man’s being a good citizen is his possession of the home virtues of which we think when we call a man by the emphatic adjective of manly. No man can be a good citizen who is not a good husband and a good father, who is not honest in his dealings with other men and women, faithful to his friends and fearless in the presence of his foes, who has not got a sound heart, a sound mind, and a sound body; exactly as no amount of attention to civil duties will save a nation if the domestic life is undermined, or there is lack of the rude military virtues which alone can assure a country’s position in the world.

Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

  • "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Leadership Styles

    • Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. Kurt Lewin (1939) led a group of researchers to identify different styles of leadership. This early study has been very influential and established three major leadership styles. The three major styles of leadership are
      (U.S. Army Handbook, 1973):
      • Authoritarian or autocratic
      • Participative or democratic
      • Delegative or Free Reign



      Although good leaders use all three styles, with one of them normally dominant, bad leaders tend to stick with one style.
  • This style is used when leaders tell their employees what they want done and how they want it accompished, without getting the advice of their followers
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28 Sep 09

Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Buddhism as traditionally conceived is a path of salvation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality.[2] Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices that are largely based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pali/Sanskrit for "The Awakened One").

  • Karma (from Sanskrit: action, work)[18] is the force which drives Samsāra, the cycle of suffering and rebirth for each being. Good, skillful (Pāli: kusala) and bad, unskillful (Pāli: akusala) actions produce "seeds" in the mind which come to fruition either in this life or in a subsequent rebirth.[19] The avoidance of unwholesome actions and the cultivation of positive actions is called Śīla (from Sanskrit: ethical conduct).


    In Buddhism, Karma specifically refers to those actions (of body, speech, and mind) that spring from mental intent (Pāli: cetana),[20] and which bring about a consequence (or fruit, Sanskrit: phala)[21] or result (Pāli: vipāka). Every time a person acts there is some quality of intention at the base of the mind and it is that quality rather than the outward appearance of the action that determines its effect.

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27 Sep 09

City of Georgetown, Texas - Georgetown Public Library

  • The key to a successful book discussion is to use the group dynamic that is already in place to expand the world of the reader by exposing him or her to new books and new ways of thinking about the themes presented by the author.

  • The discussion leader's job is to facilitate an open dialog among all of the group members by encouraging each person to share their thoughts without criticism or judgment. In many discussions there are no right or wrong answers. Discussion can begin with general questions that could be answered about any book or questions that relate specifically to the chosen book.

    Begin by asking a prepared question but then ask people to elaborate on comments they make. Involve everyone in the group and never take sides in a controversy. Ask if others agree or disagree. Go back to the prepared questions but be flexible enough to pursue ideas that are presented during the discussion. Bring in your own opinion last so as to not influence others or impose your ideas on group members.

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