April 2009

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2009:

• Lessons from Legendary Advertising Executive David Ogilvy http://ow.ly/4v11
• 100 Excellent Online Tools to Feed Your Creativity http://ow.ly/4v0m
• 12 Reasons To Be (Economically) Optimistic WSJ > http://ow.ly/4pZi
• Twittering executives reveal more than they realize http://ow.ly/478r
• “What frightens a people serves as a reliable guide to their idolatries.” What you have closed the book on may be limiting your growth?
• RT @KarlRove WSJ: A superstar, not a statesman, today leads our country. http://twurl.nl/xnf3q3 Great leaders aren’t defined by consensus
• 12 Major Brands that 24/7 Wall Street believes will not survive until the end of next year >> http://ow.ly/3zi9
• The 7 secrets of really, really lucky companies http://ow.ly/3lpZ
• Tom Peters: “we”-the-gurus are not in the business of discovering and propagating “immutable laws. Well said Tom! http://ow.ly/3lm9
• Random House to publish Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol September 15. 5-million copy first printing – the highest in RH history.
• Nido Qubein: The more you operate within your area of effective influence, the larger the area becomes.
• Douglas Rushkoff: Instead of focusing on what we still lack, we must take stock of what we already do have.
• Companies do not take advantage of feedback opportunities. FT: http://ow.ly/3k5g
• If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original ~ Ken Robinson http://ow.ly/31Vn
• Four reasons to be cheerful: Leaders should not be moping about, feeling sorry for themselves and spreading misery. http://tinyurl.com/cyjllr
• Taleb on Experts: People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should never be given a new bus. http://ow.ly/2mub
• Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in FT: http://ow.ly/2msV
• Best and Worst states to do business with: CEOs rated Texas #1 state and California as the worst. http://ow.ly/2bWj
• “Writing is a moral act: What you write has a real effect on others, often to a rather surprising extent” ~ Alexander McCall Smith
• Entrepreneurship can rescue us: As the risk averse withdraw, braver business leaders will step forward, writes Stern. http://tinyurl.com/d5ob93
• Fear has overwhelmed greed; adventurous are on retreat Until we reverse this psychology won’t recover economic momentum http://ow.ly/1Qc6

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