January 2014

Backlist Book Review

Find New Business Ideas in Old Books One of many tips listed in Speak and Grow Rich by Lilly Walters & Dottie Walters, 1997. The authors write that many people overlook backlist titles, which is a mistake because they often contain a great source of ideas, practices or concepts that be rediscovered and reintroduced… Ironically, this […]

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Hollywood Films & Business Themes

Filmmakers Are An Entrepreneurial Bunch. Their movies often weave story lines illustrating the public’s fascination with becoming their own boss. If you had to quickly list entrepreneurial-oriented films Michael Douglas in Wall Street, Justin Timberlake in Social Networking, or Decaprio in Howard Hughes might come to mind…or not. But  the themes are easily found in all […]

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Fish Flops Supports Wildlife Organization

Fish Art Contest Contest open to public, private and home schooled students k-12 Top winners will receive merchandise from teenager Madison Nicole’s line of colorful aquatic footwear. Press Release Describes contest http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20140108a Texas.gov Education, Art & Conservation http://www.tpwd.texas.gov/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/education/fish_art/ Visits: 87

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Mystery of the U.S. President

Thinking Critically Consider, “the only president measured tested subjective with high ideaphoria and inductive reasoning and low structural visualization. His educational background was not in law,” according to Margaret Broadley in Your Natural Gifts How would you make an educated guess as to which president the author meant? Hint: All clients of JOCRF are confidential, […]

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Yellow and dark blue book cover with white copy titled Running From The Law

Lawyers Become Entrepreneurs

Considering leaving the legal profession?   Four Profiles…Excerpt from Running from the Law: Why good lawyers are getting out of the legal profession. According to business journals, the niche bank is often used to describe the successful City National Bank.  A CEO with a law degree heads the firm.  Music mogul Clive Davis and the […]

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Why So Many Students and Others Dislike Research Tasks

Avoiding Research Pain 805-words…Summary + Tips Earlier last year, I re-read Finding Facts Fast by academic librarian Alden Todd, who wrote about students who lacked interest and attention to detail when handling their research assignments for various classes. Reviewing Todd’s story, written in 1992, I realized his account isn’t limited to students, and I wondered for the first […]

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How a Dream Inspired Words to a Hit Song

Illustration by the Colorist  Casey Klahn New School Color thecolorist.blogspot.com  Wildfire Aspiring entrepreneurs who literally dreamt their way into a successful business have been featured in earlier posts. Here’s an intriguing story I discovered last week about the business of music. Asleep on his friend’s floor after a grueling collaborative session in the late 1960’s, […]

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Jessica Lange’s Artistic Photography

It’s about a Little Bird Lang’s October appearance on PBS’ Tavis Smiley replayed recently, and several interesting topics were discussed: Humorous account of the real life Italian canary that inspired Lang’s new book for children. And Lange offers an inside glimpse of how to make artistic hand drawn photography prints versus mass-produced digital photography, which she […]

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