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A Business Network Makes You Powerful – Article 4 of 8
The most powerful networkers I have met have learned the art of genuinely helping others. This art is called many things; in Business Network International (“BNI”) they call it “givers gain.” This is a very important concept if you truly want to get the most out of networking and day-to-day living. While helping others is an obvious key to success, many networkers are not very conscious about how well they maintain the ratio between their giving and receiving. Many are downright selfish.

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Lack of Seriousness - The Last Interview with Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my few idols, an elegantly simple poet-philosopher of the first class. I grew up near where he lived in Sag Harbor, and I’ve enjoyed his writing since I was in junior high, where I silently hoped to one day have the courage to visit him.

Is There a Difference Between Purchasing and Procurement? (A PI Q&A)
Network Member Question As far as I know, sometimes the terms “purchasing” and “procurement” can be used as the same meaning. But in many cases it seems that both have different boundaries or meanings. So what is really the meaning behind the terms? Kurt Binh Owner, SCM Vietnam – Supply Chain and Logistics Consulting Viet Nam

Kurt Lewin - The Iceman Cometh! How to Manage Change - Freeze - Unfreeze - Freeze
In the early 20th century, the psychologist Kurt Lewin developed the model - known as "Lewin's Freeze Phases" - and which still forms the underlying basis of many change management theories models and strategies for managing change. In my view there is value in Lewin's model in that recognises that (a) people are "stuck" or attached to "how things are" and thus potentially resistant to change, and (b) that there are stages to change process and the change experience.
LEADERSHIP MEANS REALISING TRUE POTENTIALS
Realizing true potentials by continuous efforts put us to a level in the life. You only find oil if you drill wells. You may think you're finding it when you're drawing maps and studying logs, but you have to drill." (Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O & G wildcatter.) There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. --Kurt Hahn. Everybody should try anything to know everything inside. We should always try to know ourselves.. We do not know our true potentials. We never try consciously or unconsciously to dwell it from within.
“Do Something” - An original Approach to Managing Change
There are lots of change management models out there (McKinsey’s 7 S model, Kotter’s Eight Step Model, to name but two). A change model put forward way back in 1947 by Kurt Lewin called Action Research (AR) often gets overlooked. While many current models put the emphasis on planning and analysis, Lewin emphasizes taking action and then learning from the results. Learning from experience (always a good thing!) is what AR is all about. In AR you pretty much dive right in with an intervention in a real world system with the aim of improving things then you closely scrutinize the effects of your actions.
Facts or Friction
A while back Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics. They developed theories that help explain how economic policies affect unemployment, and WSJ writer Justin Lahart wrote and interesting piece about their work in Tuesday's paper. The article talked about their research in the difficulties the buyers and sellers face in finding each other in the marketplace, specifically applied to the job market. This search theory has since been applied to topics from such as the housing market all the way to searching for a spouse.

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