Month: December 2016

Dec 30
NM Global CSG – What is your critical need right now?

  Dear All,   Are you a Coach?  What is your critical need right now?  And what support can the Noble Manhattan Global CSG give you in 2017?   Members of the Global CSG are coaches, student coaches, human resource professionals and anyone interested in personal development. We recognise that each group has different critical […]

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Dec 30
10 Business Lessons I Learned After Two Years in China

As China became the second largest economy in the world, it was natural for American companies, including my own, xAd, to be interested in owning a piece of the market in China. With roughly 600M active smartphone users in China, almost 3 times that of North America, and companies such as Apple and General Motors […]

Dec 28
5 Ways to Make 2017 Your Year As An Entrepreneur

It’s the beginning of a brand new year. Opportunities await all of us. It’s a fresh start to make something new, to make an impact, to make a difference. For most of you reading this, it’s a time to finally start living your life, embrace your inner entrepreneur and to begin pursuing your passions and […]

  • Coaching
Dec 21
The Most Important Working Habit Of Hemingway: Stop At The Height of Your Day

One of my favorite things to study is the working habits of people I look up to. I’ve read about athletes, entrepreneurs, painters, musicians, writers, etc. And from studying people who were successful in their field, I’ve learned a lot about how they got their work done. A great book to get inspiration about the […]

Dec 19
Outsource The Tasks That Don’t Require Your Voice

It’s easy, as an entrepreneur, to feel like you’re spreading yourself too thin. You can feel like you’re committing yourself to way too many items, projects, tasks, work, etc. You can feel like everything is mounting up and you don’t have the bandwidth to handle any of it. That sucks. It really does. Like Bilbo […]

Dec 16
This Year’s Surge in Global Warming Is So Off the Charts, a Comic Is the Best Way to Explain It

A new webcomic looks at recent climate change through the history of civilization. The result is pretty grim. By Eric Holthaus (Image: Philippe Put/Flickr) On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that August 2016 has probably set a new record for the warmest absolute month ever measured, though it’s so close to July […]

Dec 14
Chess Players Forced to Wear Hijab at 2017 Championships

Grandmasters boycott next year’s championship games The 2017 World Chess Championships will be held in Tehran, and Iran has told Fide (the chess governing body) that all female participants must wear a hijab. Fide’s Commission for Women’s Chess submitted to Iran’s demand without question, instructing all participants to respect “cultural differences” and follow the rules. […]

Dec 12
Clinton's Aides Cover Their Tracks in Email Server Scandal

Paul Combetta of Platte River Network, covering his tracks The tech specialist, Paul Combetta has been caught trying “to cover up the cover up.” Combetta was the person responsible for scrubbing Clinton’s email archive, but he made a disastrous mistake by turning to Reddit for help with this endeavor. Allegedly, he was instructed by Clinton’s […]

Dec 09
3 Ways to Be Less Boring

“Be less boring.” That’s a low bar for us as teachers. However, improvement is implicit in this command. Face it: some days, trying to be slightly less boring is all we have, while on other days, we feel like we could make the study of prairie grasses fascinating to fifth-grade kids. I’ve been on both […]

Dec 07
This Is How To Resist Distraction: 4 Secrets To Remarkable Focus

Have you said any of these recently? I get distracted and procrastinate. I make plans but I don’t follow through on them. I get things done… but not the right things. The problem often comes down to just one word: “reactive.” Maybe that wasn’t the word you were expecting. But reactivity is a problem people have been […]

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