Links

Links to great tools and other great minds…

Check this one out…talk about a company that knows how to STAND OUT - Nolen and Associates from Atlanta. Go to www.nolenassoc.com and then click on “the Cricket Theory” to see their outstanding approach to stand out and get noticed in today’s market. This full service marketing and communication agency is truly a creative dynamo and is extraordinary at what they do. See their impressive site and contact Jyoti (pronounced Jody) Danes for information and for a connection to a truly outstanding business. This is how all businesses should think.

NEW! Great site to understand how the brain works - brain health and brain puzzles. We are in an intellectual age…know how your brain works - it is the key to your performance: www.brainhealthandpuzzles.com

Center for the Advancement of Women and CFAW President Faye Wattleton’s Blog. - great resources for the advancement of women in work and life.
www.quotationspage.com – great quotation selection with easy search.
www.quoteland.com – great quotation selection with easy search
www.wisdomquotes.com – quotations with more of a wisdom focus.
www.squidoo.com – great site that lets you set up your “lens” or perspective on whatever you want to write about. Great connection to open thinking.
www.sethgodin.com – home site of significant author and rule breaker. Always something great and exciting.
www.talentmgmt.com – the premier periodical on talent management and talent based thinking.
www.workforce.com – home site for the powerful journal that has the pulse on workforce issues, thinking and trends.
www.astd.org – home site of the American Society for Training and Development; great site but requires membership
www.shrm.org – home site of the Society for Human Resource Management; great site with extreme amounts of employee/workplace information but requires membership.
www.gallup.com – home site for the powerful thinking Gallup Organization. Great resources and links.
www.gmj.gallup.com – home site for the on-line Gallup Management Journal. Some free things; most require subscription. Outstanding perspectives about employee performance.
www.billsgames.com/brainteasers/ - fun and changing site with mind games and other thinking tests.
www.eep.com – home site for the Executive Excellence Publication. Powerful periodical; click on free sample. Most information requires paid subscription.
www.nsa.com – home site for the National Speakers Association – the location to find powerful speakers on a variety of life and business topics.
www.nationalspeakers.com – Another strong speaker’s host site.
www.leadingauthorities.com – A speaker’s host site that deals with topic specialists and high profile speakers.
www.npr.org – the home site for National Public Radio. Site is expansive and connects to daily stories and free podcasts about a large number of topics. Great site to establish as a “Favorite.”
www.prichettnet.com – home site of Price Prichett and their management and life publications.
www.stevefarber.com – home site of author and speaker Steve Farber; author of Radical Leap and Radical Edge.
www.dauten.com – home site of author and speaker Dale Dauten, author of many books including The Gifted Boss.
www.tompeters.com – home site of non-conventional thinker and direct communicator Tom Peters. Check out his free stuff, categories and Blog roll.
www.kiplinger.com – home site for the Kiplinger finance advice and business forecasting perspectives. Many free updates and significant archives. Great business perspective.
www.thecolorcode.com – a powerful communication survey as part of the book (The Color Code) by Dr. Taylor Hartman. Take the free personality test and understand why you act like you do, and moreover, why others act like they do (and how to communicate with them).
www.212movie.com – movie written by SL Parker showing that 1 more degree of energy, performance or commitment can move the ordinary to extraordinary. A must see.
www.walkthetalk.com – great link to videos and motivational publishing.
www.theauthenticlife.org – a great site to encourage all to be more in touch with their authentic life.
www.mayaangelou.com – home site for inaugural poet, writer and historian. Her writing inspires others in its prose and its honesty.
www.elizabethgilbert.com – home page for a great author whose recent book Eat, Pray, Love is a work that all should read. See her thoughts on writing on her site.
www.creativityforlife.com – great site to get the creative juices going.
www.thinking.net – strong site to encourage individual and organizational thinking.
www.creativityatwork.com – great site to see how creativity drives the workplace.
www.babyboomers.com – the host site of the large generation that affects attitudes and the economy.
www.answers.com – a site to get all of your answers.
www.coachingandmentoring.com – a site to help in the process of coaching and mentoring employees.
www.managementhelp.org – a site to get insight into management techniques and skills.
www.employer-employee.com – a workplace information portal with great feature workplace articles and insight.
www.dol.gov – home site for the Department of Labor for statistics and studies. www.careerplanning.about.com – a site all about career planning – for you and your employees.