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Lesson #2: Put a Little Magic into Your Thinking
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| When Rowling first approached publishers with her manuscript about a boy wizard, she was welcomed with a barrage of criticism. Many of those criticisms she could do little about. For instance, how could she make her story less fantastical when the very concept behind it was all about magic and wizardry? But there were other criticisms that Rowling took to heart and tried to fix. After all, she knew success was often times much like a game; if you wanted to reach the end, you had to play by the rules. |
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| Book Review -- Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson; Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10016, www.oup.com/us; ISBN 0195172833; May 2005, 473 pages, $65. |
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Money as a Social Barrier
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| Check out this study by Prof. Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota (Go Gophers!). She tested the hypothesis that thinking about money can create social barriers. Here is a description of what she did: |
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The Billion-Dollar Author: Harry Potter’s J. K. Rowling Is Born
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| “I was very low and I had to achieve something,” recalls Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. “Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.” |
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The Start of a Reading Revolution: Harry Potter Comes To Life
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| It was 1990. J.K. Rowling was working as a bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in London. She used her off time at work to write her own stories. Though she was not a published author as of yet, she longed to be. |
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Lesson #1: Slay the Dragons Standing In Your Way
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| Today, there are hundreds of millions of Harry Potter books in print around the world. Each book in Rowling’s series has also been on The New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. But when Rowling first began to seriously pursue her writing career, the story was a much different one than that. |
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Lesson #2: Put a Little Magic into Your Thinking
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| When Rowling first approached publishers with her manuscript about a boy wizard, she was welcomed with a barrage of criticism. Many of those criticisms she could do little about. For instance, how could she make her story less fantastical when the very concept behind it was all about magic and wizardry? But there were other criticisms that Rowling took to heart and tried to fix. After all, she knew success was often times much like a game; if you wanted to reach the end, you had to play by the rules. |
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Lesson #4: Do What You Know and Love
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| “I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world,” says Rowling. “I'm sure that I will always be a writer.” |
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Lesson #5: Do Not Lose the Core Essence of Your Product
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| Harry Potter is no longer just a character who comes to life in Rowling’s seven-book series. Instead, it has become a merchandising and marketing machine all on its own, pushing ahead at full throttle. And while Rowling remains in awe of the success that has been spawned by her stories, so too does she remain wary of the many attempts to capitalize on and commercialize her story of a young wizard. |
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The Web 2.0 Association: A Dynamic Engagement Between Stakeholders Sharing The Same Interests And Goals (Canadian Public Procurement Council Profile)
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| Traditional membership models for many associations have become somewhat stagnate in that they are not effectively aligned with the emerging Web 2.0 world of dynamic engagement between stakeholders sharing the same interests and goals.
According to CPPC-CCMP President Kathleen Muretti, recognizing and responding to this changing landscape is a key tenet of her council’s value proposition.
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