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By Time and Thought
As this session comes to an end It ends with evidence that one can produce great result by much planned thinking. Thinking by having ideas as thoughts and applying information to the thoughts in many ways for solutions you can be satisfied with. Hours spent on assignments, work and many daily activities could be more successful with more focus on the results. The time spent in achieving the result comes into play when telling the story or keeping records, otherwise a huge amount of time on a poor result seems like an excuse for a less than satisfactory output.
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Shapes of Stories
Last month, a few MBA students did an interesting exercise as part of an Individual Leadership Development course. We had to draw the shape of our lives based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Shapes of Stories” for our professor, Dr. Janet Marcantonio’s session. Let’s see the evolution of the “Shapes of Stories” theory.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab
The glovebox is perhaps one of the most recognizable pieces of laboratory equipment. Its purpose is simple, to separate substances from certain components in the atmosphere. Some gloveboxes are filled with argon, because compounds can be nitrogen sensitive. Others are just dry boxes, meaning oxygen isn’t an issue and water molecules are just excluded. Our glovebox is filled with a dry nitrogen atmosphere that allows us to handle moisture and oxygen sensitive compounds.
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Give Change A Chance
If change is inevitable, why is it so hard?
When we look at nature we see many examples of change, from the seasons to the life cycles of organisms change dynamically reshapes our world. On the surface it seems simple enough. To live is to change. Yet, when faced with change we often resist. Why is that?