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Happy New Year?

10,000 Birds

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. There are also certain psychological advantages.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. DDF will raise the money for the service dog by raffling off a used Jeep that features a custom paint job and custom parts. “We

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5 Keys for Motivating Your Top Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

It could be taking a sales psychology course, improving writing skills to create better proposals/presentations, or sitting with another team in your organization to better understand how they deliver value to the customer. Raise the bar. If you make the choice to stop working on improving, you’ll soon get complacent and stuck.

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A Blueprint for Your Disruption: How to Become the Next Kodak, the Next Blockbuster, or the Next Taxi Cab Medallion Owner

Sales and Marketing Management

And incentives can take many forms -- economic (via your pricing structure), psychological (image, brand, etc.), It continues to raise prices. . . Don’t raise fees. But how will customers make the transition from traditional cable to streaming? Customers will likely go where they’re incentivized to go. Incredulously, no.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Mr. Bittman has some strong answers: evolutionary psychology, convenience and propaganda posing as marketing. Health care skyrockets out of control mainly because we have no convenient access to fresh produce and tasty, humanely raised meat products. Why eat produce that has no flavor? It’s so much easier. Why do we eat so much meat?

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate. One question the research of Topál, Hare and others raises is why chimpanzees–who are in most ways much smarter than dogs–lack the ability to read gestures.

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The Better Way to Build a Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

Leaders are asked to raise the performance of those around them, but the reality is not everyone is up to the challenge. About six years ago, Prine and his team of PhD-level industrial/organizational psychologists introduced data analytics and psychology to help TSP’s clients make sure they made the right hiring decisions.

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