Monthly Archives: November 2011

‘Change the Culture, Change the Game…’ part three

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Tweet Oakville Public Library Business Online Book Club is a free service made possible with the help of the Sprott Foundation Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results By … Continue reading →

‘Change the Culture, Change the Game…’ part two

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Posted in Business Book Club, Entrepreneurship | Tagged Accountability, Alaris Medical Systems, Change the Culture, Change the Culture Change the Game, Creating a Culture of Accountability, Dave Schlotterbeck, Leadership, Oakville Public Library Business Online Book Club, Results Pyramid, Roger Connors, Roger Connors and Tom Smith, Sprott Foundation, The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results, Tom Smith | Comments Off

‘Change the Culture, Change the Game’ part one

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Posted in Business Book Club, Entrepreneurship | Tagged Alaris Medical Systems, Change the Culture, Change the Culture Change the Game, Change the Game, Creating a Culture of Accountability, Dave Schlotterbeck, Leadership, Oakville Public Library Business Online Book Club, Partners In Leadership Inc., Roger Connors, Roger Connors and Tom Smith, Sprott Foundation, Tom Smith | Comments Off

No english please…we’re saving an endangered language

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Tweet In Europe alone, around 40 million people speak a minority language and one estimate suggests that 80 per cent of the world’s languages will vanish in the next 100 years. Liet International, host of the 8 year old Liet International Song … Continue reading →

Posted in Sounds | Tagged Basque and Asturian, Coffeeshock Company, Croatian, Deutsche Welle, Endangered languages, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Irish, Janna Eijer, Ladinian (South Tyrol), Liet International, Liet International Song Contest, Onno Falkena, Rumantsch (Switzerland), Sápmi, Udmurtian (a Finno-Ugric language in Russia), Vepsian (Karelia) | Comments Off

‘Every three seconds, someone, somewhere, dies of starvation…’

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Tweet …and Mohan Munasinghe, physicist, economist and Nobel Prize winner, argues that “there is no one recipe to prevent hunger”. Born in Sri Lanka, educated in his home country, the UK (Cambridge), US (MIT) and Canada (Concordia and McGill), he is the author or co-author … Continue reading →

Posted in Green | Tagged Consumption goals, Earth summit, Mohan Munasinghe, Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Mohan Munasinghe, Sustainability | Comments Off

’6 Secrets to Startup Success: How to Turn…’ part five

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Tweet Oakville Public Library Business Online Book Club is a free service made possible with the help of the Sprott Foundation 6 Secrets to Startup Success How to Turn Your Entrepreneurial Passion Into a Thriving Business By John Bradberry Published … Continue reading →

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‘Credibility: hard to earn, easy to lose’

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Dawn Montgomery

Tweet Thanks to Forbes and Senior Editor Deborah L. Jacobs for this great article from guest post-er Dianna Booher author of Communicate with Confidence! How to Say it Right the First Time and Every Time! (2nd Edition McGraw-Hill Professional 2011). “….People … Continue reading →

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