How to Turn Your Dreams into Reality—with the Stroke of a Pen
By Nora Herting & Heather Willems

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “Turning a great idea into something that will actually earn you a living can be intimidating. … It turns out there is a first step you can take to start to make your big ideas and dreams come true: You can pick up your pen and start drawing.”
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How to Start Up Your Brand: Develop a Minimum Viable Brand
By Denise Lee Yohn

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “Many startups get derailed because they don't get their brand right. To avoid this fate, you need to develop a Minimum Viable Brand (MVB). As an alternative to a complete strategic brand platform or simply a shell of a brand, a MVB provides you the perfect balance of structure and flexibility.”
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SIMPLY BRILLIANT: 8 Questions to Help You Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways
By William C. Taylor

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “The thrill of breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance doesn’t just belong to the youngest companies with the most cutting-edge technology or the most radical business strategies.”
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Turning Points: The Key to Success and Accomplishment in Life
By Bernie Swain

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “It’s the turning point in your life—a subtle or stark shift set in motion by a person, event, or epiphany that has sent you down a different path and in the process has transformed what you were into what you have now become.”
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The Career Benefits of Writing Without Bullshit
By Josh Bernoff

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “Clarity. Boldness. We say that we value these qualities in communication at work. So why is nearly everything we read so full of bullshit? After 35 years of reading and writing for work, I decided to determine what causes bullshit, and how we can all learn to write without it.”
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How to Make Things Happen When You’re Not the CEO
By Thomas Barta and Patrick Barwise

Published Sept. 14, 2016 - “Great ideas achieve nothing unless they’re executed. But as a technical expert, a manager, or even a senior leader, you have no formal power to make anything happen beyond your own team. What do you do?”
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