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Malcolm Gladwell @ the NAC June 11th 2009

As you might now, TBridge started a book club and the first book we read was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. A week after our review, Stephen Daze comes in during our weekly meeting announcing that Malcolm Gladwell will be at the NAC June 11th and since we had all just read his book, we will all be attending (who said timing wasn’t everything?). For those of you who have never...
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It’s all a mind game – Couch potatoes running the MDS Nordion 10K

Eight weeks ago four couch potatoes decided they were going to run a marathon.  Ok not a marathon, a 10K race (to the couch potatoes, 10K or marathon pretty much amounted to the same thing).  They went out to train the first day.  Two of the four barley ran the 3K they had planned for the day, the other two jogged, walked part way, sat on a bench, and waited for the first two to return.  After...
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Outliers – In Response to Stephen Daze’s Question

At the beginning of our book club meeting on Outliers, Stephen Daze asked us a question: If we are to believe the theories stipulated by Gladwell in Outliers, what are the skills or opportunities needed to become an outlier entrepreneur? Well that’s an interesting question. Because it makes you have to think long and hard about what an entrepreneur is. According to Wikipedia – an entrepreneur...
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