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UT Dallas Coaching Program

UT Dallas has an excellent online 15-hour coaching program within their School of Management for busy executives who wish to hone their skills as internal coaches withing their companies. The course gives one a certificate and is recognized by the International Coach Federation. For more information visit UTDallas.edu.

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers, says forget IQ, class, demographics, or heritage when it comes to success. It matters the year you were born (1935), where you were born (NYC, China, California); Gladwell shares his unexpected logic that 10,000 hours of study and practice will make you an expert in whatever field you choose. Forget about genius: look at family, birthplace, and culture.

By the Numbers

Seventy-five percent of small business owners think workplace profanity is offensive and unprofessional; cloud computing is the renting of storage space on larger corporate computers by small businesses or individuals; 90% of all e-mail is spam, 19% unemployment in construction, 27% of 1.6 million graduating college seniors plan to work for non-profits.(from Fortune Small Business)

Newt Gingrich

Newt's book on Real Change is a blue print for how to get the red and blue states to allow a little white into our political dialogue (as in red, white, and blue). Yes, Newt is a conservative. But he is a moderate conservative with good ideas on how to get our country back on track. Check out his book. One teaser, we need to eliminate paper in our healthcare system and go digital, including lab, medications,

Nudge: Improving Choices

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have written a book about choice architecture and how humans are influenced by the way information is presented to us. It will change the way you think without getting paranoid about "Big Brother." They claim that they can "nudge" people into making the best decision for themselves without restricting their freedom of choice. Topics include investing, prescription drugs, environmental concerns, improving our schools,

When Government Calls the Shots

The U.S. stimulus package of $2 Trillion outpaces Japan's $200 Billion, China's $586 Billion and will be the highest GDP share since WWII. Don't expect Uncle Sam to ease your burdens; look for more labor unions, continued financial bailouts, and over regulation. Government will soon be the world's economy driving force.