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Friday, March 19, 2010
0160; Ideation provides an escape route from the slowness of the return to more economic growth.  Maybe I hang in the wrong circles.  0160; For the past few months, including today, I have been hearing too much about suicide ideation.  0160; That's the kind of thought pattern which defaults in thoughts about suicide. 
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Gartner told us in THE HYPOMANIC EDGE that it was the frenetic mindset and all-over-the-place behavior which helped America become the dominant economic power.  The new success brand is: Poised.  0160; On "The Good Wife" Alicia has that down cold.  0160; Her law firm, where she is a junior associate, has about a year's left of cash. 
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
For those who are not big into economics think of it this way: Let's say you can eat all of the donuts you want. In 2008, then candidate Barack Obama revolutionized the way campaigns were done. His fundraising on-line, using his organization skills to create OFA (Obama For America - now known as Organizing For America) and his bevy of volunteers helped propel him to the Presidency.
 

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The Commerce Department reports that in May U.S. exports were up 1.6% and exports down 0.6%.  0160; That sure sounds like GDP growth.  0160; It also could signal that global trade has gotten unstuck. For business
There are plenty of expert quotes in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL testifying to the economic thaw.   0160;  There are, reports  Conor Dougherty, "steadily rising estimates of fourth-quarter economic growth."  0160; There's no return to economic innocence. ...Tags: quot;  Dougherty is telling that to a gen who has perhaps lost the ability to be optimistic. 
Some visual thinkers challenged me to write a very short presentation about the power of visual thinking during these tough economic times. Presentations are only as good as the idea, visuals and delivery. So I whipped out our presentation map and got to work. First, I considered my audience.
What Smart Speakers Do Differently in Tough Economic Times Saturday’s Saturday’s meeting of the Northern California chapter of the National Speakers Association featured a panel of Past Presidents who discussed ‘What Smart Speakers Do Differently in Tough Economic Times’. Host Host Barry Wishner talked with: * Michael Soon Lee, CSP *
What Smart Speakers Do Differently in Tough Economic Times Saturday’s Saturday’s meeting of the Northern California chapter of the National Speakers Association featured a panel of Past Presidents who discussed ‘What Smart Speakers Do Differently in Tough Economic Times’. Host Host Barry Wishner talked with: * Michael Soon Lee, CSP *
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8220;The Power Gap” (a new animated infographic by Airslide) is a great example of making a complex story look effortless… “Demos came to us with an intensely detailed statistical study, which rated every single constituency in Britain according to a number of different social and economic aspects. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo . “The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation.
0160; That's like my waking up to the news that I won this year's Nobel Prize for breakthrough thought in Economics.   0160;  Even in undergraduate days - and it wasn't Harvard or Princeton but Seton Hill  in Greensburg, Pennsylvania - I knocked myself out for "Bs" in Economics and haven't got it 'till this day. Shock.  0160; That's how most of us are reacting to the announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. 
0160; To the company it was and had to be pure economics.  0160; It was always about economic survival, including of the remaining 10,000 positions at Pratt & Whitney." Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies, will go down in corporate public relations history as handling the closing of two Connecticut facilities ham-handedly.  0160; Its approach was old-economy and only served to accelerate backlash. 
An economic situation more clearly visualized. The opening line in my new MOST favorite book is, “The response to a visual presentation will determine its value.” No, this is not a newfangled book on presentations written this year, it’s the book “Practical Charting Techniques” written in 1969 by Mary Eleanor Spear, the statistician of governments and Presidents. My good friend Glenn Hughes at Hues Works turned