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|  | February 18th, 2012 | | Posted 1 day ago by  Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! |  3 | | There's lots of reasons why diversity is good for the workplace, but what you may not consider is that diversity can actually be good for productivity. Open Forum offers several reasons. Here's just one: Be a talent hunter. Imagine having a reputation for being a talent hunter, for being known as the type of leader who walks into a room and looks for what's right with people. Extensive research has proven that focusing on enhancing people's talents rather than eliminating their weaknesses is the most direct route to individual and organizational improvements. A primer for this is Marcus Buckingham's and Donald O. Clifton's book, Now, Discover Your Strengths, which helps readers identify their talents and build on their strengths as a way to boost performance. Talents are defined as people's naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied. The book also provides access to StrengthsFinder, a Web-based assessment that helps you identify the five most powerful signature themes, or talents, for you and your team. When we shackle people with labels of what they are not good at, we diminish their confidence in their ability to succeed. Resolve to view your people as a reservoir of talent rather than a problem to be fixed. As Peter F. Drucker once said: "Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well." Full story at Open Forum. More tips on getting things done. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted 1 day ago by Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! | | 2 | | Death may be the great equalizer, but sometimes it takes a little longer to equalize some folks. Cracked offers seven historical personnages who just refused to die. For example: Trotsky was denied entry into the U.S. and eventually found his way to a home in Mexico City. It was there that he was attacked by Ramon Mercader, an assassin working for Stalin. While Trotsky was home reading some sh*t, Mercader buried an ice axe into the back of his skull. This just pissed Trotsky off. He stood up from his desk, axe in head, and spit on Mercader. Then he went after the assassin, wrestling with him. Trotsky's bodyguards heard the commotion (where the f*ck were they a few minutes ago?) and came running in to subdue the assassin and get Trotsky to the hospital. Full story at Cracked. More odd facts. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted 1 day ago by Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! | | 5 | | Once you claw your way to the top, you may be tempted to think you're done. You made it, that's it. Time to kick back. Right? Wrong. Entrepreneur highlights top challenges leaders have to overcome. For example: Challenge No. 1: Hiring the right people -- and keeping them Many first-time leaders make regretful hiring decisions early on. They choose people too much like themselves when what they really need are employees with complementary skills. They also sometimes recruit people who may have the right skills but lack solid values. Tom Sullivan, founder and chairman of Lumber Liquidators, a Toano, Va.-based hardwood floor retailer, learned his lesson the hard way. When expanding operations beyond his first store in the Boston area, he needed store managers and truck drivers in other cities, but some of his earliest hires didn't pan out. One store manager admitted to stealing money from the cash register, which he later repaid. Then there was the truck driver who disappeared on his first delivery, taking both the truck and the cash he had collected. "The biggest thing was getting people you could trust," says Sullivan, 52, now chairman of the 2,000-employee public company. He didn't do enough due diligence at first, but after those experiences, he quickly began conducting background checks on all new employees. Full story at Entrepreneur. Top news for leaders. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted about 12 hours ago by Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! | | Owning a business is a bit like being in high school; it’s uncomfortable asking for attention, but you desperately need it. In the business world, however, you can’t just join the football team. You’ve got to figure out why you’re being ignored. Startup Nation gives you some reasons why the media is ignorning your company. For example: You don’t care about them. When you contact a media member, you’ve got to think about what’s in it for them and provide information they can actually use. If you simply talk about how great your business is and all the product features you have to offer, you will hear crickets chirping or a dial tone. However, if you think about how you can offer valuable information to a media member that he or she can actually use, you’ll be more likely to from a lasting relationship with that person. By creating a reputation of always providing interesting and current information, over time, media members will want to call you for future stories. Full story at Startup Nation. More advice for small businesses. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | Posted 1 day ago by marylandstockmarket to marylandstockmarket's posterous | | Crown Equity Holdings Inc., (CRWE) Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) announced that it has launched CRWE Tube, www.crwetube.com, a video sharing site that allows billions of people around the world to upload watch and share original videos. "The CRWE Tube team has built an exciting media platform, which allows people and businesses large and small to quickly and efficiently reach a vast new audience," said Kenneth Bosket, President of Crown Equity Holdings Inc. "With online videos continuing to experience explosive, viral growth and the web rapidly moving from text to video, businesses will need to adapt to the shift in video distribution technology or quickly become irrelevant to their consumers who anticipate seeing video everywhere online." A growing number of popular online marketers are using video marketing systems to generate business by promoting and selling their products. Internet marketers are exploring the potency of using video for their marketing projects simply because it works. Videos are just an exceptional resource to introduce your products or promotions to people. Video marketing will also allow you to develop a strong connection with your clientele which will undoubtedly increase your sales. 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CRWE, its operators, shareholders, employees and/or contractors harmless and to completely release them from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damages (monetary or otherwise) that you may occur.(Read more at http://crwewallstreet.com/disclaimer) Rule 17B requires disclosure of payment for investor relations. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) is a newswire as well as an IR and PR firm. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), in some cases, provides media advertising and public awareness for both public and private companies, as well as disseminating news. As such, in some cases, when Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) advertises for a particular client, Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) charges an advertising fee which it must disclose under 17B. The fee may be in cash, in free trading stock or in restricted stock. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), if paid in stock, can and may sell those securities during the advertising period. | | | Posted 1 day ago by marylandstockmarket to marylandstockmarket's posterous | | Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ:PLBC) announced that its regulators -- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") and California Department of Financial Institutions ("DFI"), have terminated a consent order (the "Order") put in place in March 2011. The lifting of the Order reflects the rapid progress made by Plumas Bank's management and Board of Directors in reducing classified asset balances, increasing capital ratios, improving lending policies and practices, and retaining qualified management as stated in the terms of the Order. Plumas Bancorp operates as the holding company for Plumas Bank that provides retail and commercial banking services primarily in California. ***************************** eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:EHTH) announced that it will host an Analyst Day in New York City, NY on February 29, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. ET to approximately 1:30 p.m. ET. The event will feature management presentations as well as a question and answer session with eHealth executives. Attendance at the event is by invitation only; however, eHealth will provide a live audio webcast of the Analyst Day presentations via the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.ehealthinsurance.com. Read the article with full Disclaimer: crwewallstreet.com/22923/stock-alerts/plbc-ehth-afsi-stock-highlights-by-crwewallstreetcom/ ****************************************************************************** THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY! Disclaimer: Never invest in any stock featured on our site or emails unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. CRWEWallStreet publisher and its affiliates and contractors are not registered investment advisers or broker/dealers. Our disclaimer is to be read and fully understood before using our site, reading our newsletter or joining our email list. Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using, you agree to hold CRWEWallStreet.com report and Crown Equity Holdings Inc. CRWE, its operators, shareholders, employees and/or contractors harmless and to completely release them from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damages (monetary or otherwise) that you may occur.(Read more at http://crwewallstreet.com/disclaimer) Rule 17B requires disclosure of payment for investor relations. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) is a newswire as well as an IR and PR firm. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), in some cases, provides media advertising and public awareness for both public and private companies, as well as disseminating news. As such, in some cases, when Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) advertises for a particular client, Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) charges an advertising fee which it must disclose under 17B. The fee may be in cash, in free trading stock or in restricted stock. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), if paid in stock, can and may sell those securities during the advertising period. | | | Posted 1 day ago by kimtopps to kimtopps's posterous | | NatureWorks, the bio-plastics market company with its commercial range of Ingeo biopolymers, and BioAmber, have created AmberWorks, a joint venture to bring new performance bio-based polymer compositions to market. NatureWorks, the bio-plastics market company with its commercial range of Ingeo biopolymers, and BioAmber, have created AmberWorks, a joint venture to bring new performance bio-based polymer compositions to market. The joint venture builds on the natural synergy that exists between NatureWorks and BioAmber. Beyond its Ingeo PLA technology platform, NatureWorks brings to the joint venture a global commercial presence, established customer relationships, developed applications across a breadth of industries and deep experience in commercialising new-to-the-world polymers. BioAmber owns PLA/PBS compounding intellectual property and applies award-winning biotechnology and chemical processing to produce renewable chemicals. These renewable chemicals deliver high-performance, low-carbon-footprint building blocks that are cost competitive with their petrochemical equivalents. The joint venture combines the best of both companies into an entity tasked with developing a new family of bio-based compounded polymer solutions. With the formation of the joint venture, NatureWorks plans to commercialise a new family of compounded Ingeo resin grades, and is immediately offering samples of developmental grades aimed at thermoforming and injection-molding processes. This new family of developmental Ingeo compounded resins is designed for food service ware applications, expanding the Ingeo property range in terms of flexibility, toughness, heat resistance, and drop-in processability on existing manufacturing equipment. Based on market interest, further formulated solutions optimised for a number of different applications beyond food service will be assessed over the coming 12-24 months. Compounded PLA/PBS resin grades, developed and manufactured by AmberWorks, will be marketed exclusively through the NatureWorks global commercial organisation as new and distinct solutions within the company?s Ingeo portfolio of products. Source: Cargill Chyler Leigh Ciara Cindy Crawford Cindy Taylor Cinthia Moura | | | Posted 1 day ago by marylandstockmarket to marylandstockmarket's posterous | | Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE) Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a joint venture to deploy VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology delivering voice, video and data services to residential and commercial customers. The joint venture company is Crown Tele Services Inc. which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crown Equity Holdings Inc. Commenting on the joint venture, Kenneth Bosket, President of Crown Equity Holdings Inc., said: "We are excited to deliver VoIP communications solutions specifically designed to meet the business and residential market needs with Mr. Kumar who has extensive experience in this fast-growing global market." The Benefits of Voice over Internet Protocol: Reduced local and long-distance charges. One network to manage for both voice and data, instead of two. Reduced travel costs to online conferencing, easy to use video calls, and other collaboration tools. Easily make adds, moves, and changes to the small business phone system as needed. Employees have more ways to stay connected and customers can reach them more easily. Take all of your phone system's features with you for use at home, at the office, or on the road. Read the article with full Disclaimer: crwewallstreet.com/22924/stock-alerts/etfc-crwe-acas-mfsf-featured-stocks-by-crwewallstreetcom/ ****************************************************************************** THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY! Disclaimer: Never invest in any stock featured on our site or emails unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. CRWEWallStreet publisher and its affiliates and contractors are not registered investment advisers or broker/dealers. Our disclaimer is to be read and fully understood before using our site, reading our newsletter or joining our email list. Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using, you agree to hold CRWEWallStreet.com report and Crown Equity Holdings Inc. CRWE, its operators, shareholders, employees and/or contractors harmless and to completely release them from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damages (monetary or otherwise) that you may occur.(Read more at http://crwewallstreet.com/disclaimer) Rule 17B requires disclosure of payment for investor relations. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) is a newswire as well as an IR and PR firm. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), in some cases, provides media advertising and public awareness for both public and private companies, as well as disseminating news. As such, in some cases, when Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) advertises for a particular client, Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) charges an advertising fee which it must disclose under 17B. The fee may be in cash, in free trading stock or in restricted stock. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), if paid in stock, can and may sell those securities during the advertising period. | | | Posted 1 day ago by kimtopps to kimtopps's posterous | | Johnny Blaze might have added an extra dimension, but he's lacking engine power this time The first Ghost Rider had Nicolas Cage zooming enjoyably about the place as Johnny Blaze, a flaming demon on his mighty motorbike, collecting damned souls for Satan ? his side of a bargain he once sealed with the Evil One who undertook to cure his dad's cancer. Now Blaze is back for more throbbing daemonic adventures in 3D; he briefly reminds us of the fact that he did all this for his ailing father, but just as before, his dad's subsequent existence is of absolutely zero interest. There's less engine power in this sequel, and the original's healthy, dark humour is in short supply. Hinds plays the devilish figure of Roarke, whose intense, scary face makes him look a lot like Harry Grout, the gangster-inmate in TV's Porridge. The strangest part of this film is a quick montage showing the various historic and mythic incarnations of evil: there's Idi Amin in there, and Stalin ? but no Hitler, and the big ironic showstopper is a huge picture of Jerry Springer. Not exactly topical, not precisely hilarious and, presumably, not technically libellous. Time for this rider to head off into the sunset. Rating: 2/5 
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