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"Practice Only on the Days You Eat"
Shinichi Suzuki

Great stuff. Can say from experience that this is deceptively impressive.

Microsoft hits a speech recognition milestone with a system just as good as human ears It's a red-letter day at Microsoft Research: a team working on speech recognition has hit a serious symbolic goal with a system that's as good as you at..

What do sound strategists and smart hikers have in common? http://www.spotlightperformance.com/blog/surviving-trail #

Georgia State University brings in heavy outside talent to drive innovation. Article on Phil Ventimiglia, CIO. Sharp guy with a visionary agenda.

Creating a Digitally Enabled University -- Campus Technology Georgia State's chief innovation officer is tackling the flipped classroom, learning analytics, digital literacy and more.

"Language...is predictive of personality [...] and personality measures have strong predictive performance for CEOs"

CEO Personality and Firm Policies Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extrav...

A few years old, but, some fascinating points on higher education & the sales profession.

Teaching Sales Great sales professionals are scarce and getting scarcer. Why aren’t universities working harder to create more?

Not quite sure if I'm ready to support the McAfee for President campaign (yes, that's a real thing), but cool video!

Vote Different Be a hero. Change the world. Vote Different. http://BeALibertarian.com This is the 2nd in a new series of videos for the John McAfee / Judd Weiss campaign fo...

"Most people bemoan the number of meetings on their calendars. [...] But what people are tired of is bad meetings [...]. They actually long for valuable discussions [...]."

A Step-by-Step Guide to Structuring Better Meetings

“Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but if we consult experience, we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the invention of others, that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.” Sir Joshua Reynolds

"There is no merit in just thinking about doing something. The result is exactly the same as not thinking about it. It is only the doing the thing that counts. I shall aquire the habit of doing what I have in my mind to do." (S. Suzuki)

Are you ready to do the thing that counts?

"I'd assert that stamina correlates more closely with performance at this level than does intelligence, education, family background, or any other factor."

The Unheralded Virtue: Stamina, Part 1 | Spotlight Performance If you look closely at CEO’s, generals, politicians, and other high-speed leaders one thing that jumps out is that they all have tremendous stamina. Physical stamina. I'd assert that stamina correlates more closely with performance at this level than does intelligence, education, family background,…