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Academicearth.org – How to catch up missed Lectures

Geschrieben am 02. Apr. 2009 von Maik Preßler.

These days i have received the link of academicearth.org. A site with “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.”. Quite interesting i thought, and gave it a try with videos about:
Psycology:

History:

and Physics:

Like Rob, i’m an TED-addicted. Therefore it is really hard to convince me replacing my for-TED-preserved-time with ohter stuff. But academicearth definitely [...]

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Learn how to speak to strangers.

Geschrieben am 15. Jan. 2009 von Robert Günther.

Part of job being is a Sales rep is a very uncomfortable thing called hunting. It’s so unpleasent for me because it means picking up the phone, dialing a number and talking to a complete stranger. When I started in Sales this seemed to me completely undoable, I was in deep fear of rejection, of [...]

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Why listening is the ultimate (business) skill.

Geschrieben am 14. Oct. 2008 von Robert Günther.

Ever wondered what’s the most important skill in your daily business is, no matter whether you’re a construction worker, a lawyer or a sales guy like me: its listening! Listening to your customers, your colleagues, your boss and even your belly. Now you might say that these are different kinds of listening skills, but I [...]

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