01st May 2008
Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
Like a lot of shoppers at supermarkets, I look at the magazine displays while waiting in line to check out. Recently I was thrilled to see a recent edition to LIFE's Great Photographers Series: "Remembering Audrey 15 Years L...
01st May 2008
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If you were celebrating Valentines Day with a candlelight dinner for two at home and settled in to watch a movie, "Sleepless in Seattle" would be a great choice because it provides a pleasant experience and is already becomi...
01st May 2008
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Dressed to Kill - 4 Stars (Excellent)
"Dressed to Kill" is the most horrific psychological thriller I have seen since "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn as a recently blinded woman who is terrorized by a trio of thugs ...
30th April 2008
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The only guarantee going into the 2008 NCAA National Championship Game was that one of two very good coaches—Bill Self of Kansas or John Calipari of Memphis—would win his first national title.
In an NCAA first, the fo...
29th April 2008
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The first two rounds of the 2008 NCAA College Basketball Tournament underscored just how far parity has come in the men's competition as at least 1 major upset occurred every 6 games (8 major upsets and 3 minor upsets in 48 ...
29th April 2008
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For the first time in the history of the NCAA National Basketball Tournament, all four No. 1 seeded teams made it safely through the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 brackets to the Final 4?UCLA, Memphis, North Carolina and Kansas. Three...
07th April 2008
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Female executives who are bold and aggressive do not rise up the corporate ladder as quickly as you may think. Bold and aggressive traits do not naturally match well with intelligence and savvy. Given the fact that there are...
07th April 2008
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We can teach people a lot of things, but there are two things we cannot teach people, potential hires or employees—judgment and personality development.
Judgment is an interesting trait because the only way you can acqu...
07th April 2008
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My best advice to clients about to interview for a job is to treat the interview like an IRS audit.
When the Internal Revenue Service thinks you are cheating on your annual tax return, and they ask you a question during a...
07th April 2008
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If I told a lot of potential hires that sometimes they have as much or more to do with getting a job offer as I do as the interviewer, most of them would not believe me. After all, I am the interviewer and, in many cases, I ...
06th April 2008
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There is probably not a day in America when at least a million employees wonder "When am I going to get promoted?" or "I am so upset that they promoted him and not me?"
On that very same day there are hundreds of managers...
03rd April 2008
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Thirty-nine years ago I had taken a weekend job as a police reporter for the Colorado Springs Free Press, a daily newspaper competitor to the long-established Colorado Springs Gazette. The Free Press was a morning paper and ...
03rd April 2008
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Imagine my surprise Wednesday (3-5-08) when I discovered that Warren Buffett, who has played second fiddle to Bill Gates as the world's richest man for several years, is now the wealthiest billionaire in the world with a net...
14th March 2008
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It is important to understand that there is no need for any coach to announce a leader, leaders announce themselves by moving on instinctively. They will not tolerate running with the pack, nor should they.
Steve Prefonta...
14th March 2008
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Senior Nicole Bush put the finishing touch on an outstanding cross-country season by finishing 5th in the NCAA National Championship meet, earning All-American status with a 6000-meter time of 20:13.4, missing the school-rec...
