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Wellll wellll, must be nice. Hmph. — Tanya
what? your office doesn’t have a polar lounge for 24/7 viewing of the penguin live cam?
i’m sorry!
(but, for real, it takes every ounce of willpower i have not to sit down there and watch for hours. also, there was someone in a penguin costume walking around handing out free winter hats. love it!)
Need better talent? Shake up your hiring process.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Anders has a theory about talent, detailed in his latest book, The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else. Companies are focused on their short-term needs, rather than thinking big and keeping their eyes open for the people who’ll really drive the business forward. We explored the topic with him in a recent phone interview. Here’s part two of our discussion.
How does one innovate in the talent search field?

A powerful response from a former slave to a letter from his former master (via Letters of Note: To My Old Master)
Need better talent? Shake up your hiring process.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Anders has a theory about talent, detailed in his latest book, The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else. Companies are focused on their short-term needs, rather than thinking big and keeping their eyes open for the people who’ll really drive the business forward. We explored the topic with him in a recent phone interview. Here’s part two of our discussion.
How does one innovate in the talent search field?
I concede that, even as a Deranged Millionaire, I have less a grasp on the economic contours of the speech than Andrew Sullivan, who was profoundly disappointed by it.
It’s true there was little uplift, and some very sour moments when, in his calls to “Frack, baby, frack, but frack somewhat…
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