I want to reflect in my last post of 2007. I want to thank the writers that inspired me to opine and post. I made a list of my posts that have a contribution from other writers. Please check out their writings (my post is the top one and then the article and the author is underneath).

Cherished Times

• Jim Valvano --->  Don’t Ever Give Up Speech delivered 4 March 1993

Cloud Computing or Chip Advancements?

• Google Gets Ready to Rumble with Microsoft by Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft
• Faster Chips are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust by John Markoff

Challenge the US Middle Class

• Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster by David Cay Johnston

Too Much Emphasis on Tests?

• Malcolm Gladwell. It is titled None of the Above: What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race. Books like Flatland by Edwin Abbott

Bonuses, Wall St, and Main St

• Dealbook blog called On Bonuses, Banks face a Balancing Act.

Accepting Unconventional Risk

• The Team That Put the Net in Orbit by John Markoff.

Dyslexia and Entrepreneurs

• Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia by Brent Bowers.
• Daniel Pink in a podcast I have from him

Economic Pessimism

•  Pessimism is Growing in Executive Suites by Floyd Norris.

It's Not a Recession, But It Sure Feels Like It - Stats

• Income, spending gains slow by Chris Isidore

It's Not a Recession, But It Sure Feels Like It

• Katie Zezema wrote Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts

Organizational Leadership – Empowering Your Experts

• From Ants to People, and Instinct to Swarm  by Carl Zimmer
• Robotic Roaches Do the Trick by MICHAEL D. LEMONICK

Happiness is Relative?

• Success Depends on Others Failing by LAURA BLUE/LONDON

Business Ethics Extremes

• Rough Riders by Connie Bruck

 Cloud Computing and IBM

• STEVE LOHR ran this announcement from IBM

Next Generation CEO

• Nelson D. Schwartz  article C.E.O. Evolution Phase 3.

Age and Risk

• Jason Zweig titled Inside the Mind of the Older Investor

What is Business Success?

• Gary Rivlin called After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

Big Prizes

• Q&A With X Prize Founder: Big Prizes = Big Breakthough by Jason Silverman

Peanut Butter and Pasta

• Anne D'Innocenzio and is called Working Class Stretched Thin

Does College have a Future?

• Keisha Lamothe article titled College Costs Keep Rising

Baseball is Duped by Warning Track Power

• Chris Isidore called A-Rod: A Bargain at $300 Million

Qualities of High Earners

• Want a Higher Paycheck? Say You're Sorry by Anne Fisher

Are Indian Companies Expanding Too Quickly? Part 2

• India's Call-Center Jobs Go Begging by SUDHIN THANAWALA/NEW DELHI

9/11 and its Real Impact on the Economy

• Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece titled 9/11 is Over

Task Accomplished: Efficiency and Productivity

• David Allen called Getting Things Done: Guru David Allen and his Cult of hyperefficiency

Business Talk

• William Saletan called The Double Thinker

Are Indian Companies Expanding Too Quickly?

• Anand Giridharadas titled Outsourcing Works, So India is Exporting Jobs

The Next Management Stars: Divergence Generation

• Geoff Colvin article How Top Companies Breed Stars

Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal

• Paul Krugman in the the NY Times

Metrics Equal Accountability?

• David Weinberger is one the featured writers for the Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Ideas of 2007

Type of Genius

• Daniel Pink titled What Kind of Genius Are You?

Reaching People Creatively

• Rick Rubin in a recent NY Times piece by LYNN HIRSCHBERG

Business 2.0 Loses to Business 1.0

• The Coming Job Boom by Paul Kaihla

Productivity Pays - The CEO

• GDP Growth Not Reaching Paychecks by unknown
• CEO Pay: 364 times more than workers by Jeanne Sahadi

Migrant Workers and the State Department

• Rising Breed of Migrant: Skilled and Welcome by Jason DeParle

At What Point Does It Stop Being Education?

• John Cloud wrote a great article called Are We Failing Our Geniuses?

Tipping Point Leadership

• Tipping Point Leadership" by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Much of the Harvard Business Review article can be found in the book Blue Ocean Strategy

A New Effort to Crack Down on Illegal Immigrants

• Julia Preston article titled " US Set for a Crackdown on Illegal Hiring"

PowerPoint Manipulation

• Benedict Carey wrote an article called " Who's Minding the Mind?”

Using Fables

• Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter

US Government Hiring?

• Anne Fisher

Top Earning Towns

• top earning towns by Jeff Cox

Self-Determination Theory

• Tom McGrath called "Unleash Your Potential

When Discipline gets in the way

• Steve Lohr titled “At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource
• Thomas Friedman called “China Needs an Einstein. So Do We

Just-In-Time Employees?

• Chris Isidore called Attention shoppers: No jobs here

A Matter that Caught My Attention

• Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism by Patricia Aburdene