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On the heels of the recent spike in gas prices, energy professionals are descending on Houston for one of the largest energy shows, CERAWeek, hosted by IHS CERA. Oil and gas executives, economists and IHS CERA staff will be speaking to the abundance and diversity of our worldwide and domestic resources, the controversy surrounding current technology and the issues facing supply and demand.

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Phil Lawson

Phil Lawson is the founder and CEO of Spherit Inc. Spherit is a company that looks at the whole of a complex issue and makes sense of it.   Through an online questioner system a chart is created that reports the shape and pattern of a company.  One element the chart produces is staff ability for example is an employee ability being fully used.   The application that does this is called Sphere and it has countless applications.  It can also be used in the areas of health, personal relationships and individual career goals.  The purpose of the application is to assist in navigating to the best possible outcome.

Lawson is also the author.  Being Spherical — Reshaping Our Lives and Our World for the 21st Century is a book about navigating through change.  Lawson co-authored, It’s Going to be OK (but not like we thought), “A story about absolute certainty, confounding bewilderment and an inescapable transformation,” says Lawson.

For more information, visit; www.engagesphere.com

People from developed modern societies can pay thanks to those who helped revolutionize the way we experience the world because of fossil fuels. Through the use of coal and oil we have taken our cultures and turned them into thriving metropolises across the globe. While countries in Europe, the United States and most recently China and India have experienced economic prosperity through the use of fossil fuels; is it possible as we continue to develop new renewable resources that emerging and developing nations should start looking at alternatives?
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Architect Eve Blossom’s design thinking in the business world creates job stability.

For a couple years after graduation she worked but felt something was missing, which led to traveling and working abroad.

The Long Journey of Starting Lulan Artisans

Eve Blossom moved to Hanoi, Vietnam in 1995, to renovate French villas, an American architect’s dream come true.  However, one night she witnessed first-hand the transaction of a six year old girl being sold for sex by her father to a European man.  Blossom intervened but was threatened at knife point. And as so Blossom was unsuccessful at altering the outcome.  Read More »

Colorado Gives Day

Colorado Gives Day is hosted by FirstBank and the Community First Foundation.  The two dedicated collaborators, Marla J. Williams, president and CEO of Community First Foundation and Jim Reuter, executive vice president of FirstBank has set 2011’s goal of exceeded last year’s total distribution of $8.7 million.  Ever wonder how your donation supports the community?  Here are two nonprofits with one their many of their success stories.

Marla J. Williams, President and CEO of Community First Foundation

The Nonprofit

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Angel Tuccy

Time is the invisible resource and to harness the most of it you can follow the following surviving time management tips.

1. Concentrate on producing results.  Some like the “good ol’fun” of procrastination but that is not managing time effectively.
2. Ask for help by first creating a list of rankings with ABC priorities; A being the most important.  Angel Tuccy of The Experience Read More »

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Allan Jones President of Emaginos Inc.

Allan Jones, president of Emaginos Inc. focuses on changing K-12 education.  Changing the course of public education takes more than reforms.  Reforms are not creating the best benefits in public schools.  The NCEE reported globally we are in the middle or bottom of the middle tier of rankings for having successful K-12 education.  The best practices in transforming public education are:

1. Creating stronger teacher unions
2. Viewing teachers as the solution not the problem
3. The Federal government needs to set the priorities
4. Equity needs to go to the best preforming schools.

Charter schools are an asset in proving innovations.  Only 17 percent of charter schools are successful and those schools should be studied for best practices.

Ignoring public schools have efficiency issues will result in people unable to find jobs.  Extinct jobs are not coming back and schooling can’t get in the way of education.  Schools should focus 80 percent on problem solving and 20 percent on learning facts.

Tracy Learning Centers use hands on applications developed by Emaginos Inc. and have a one percent dropout rate and zero percent teacher turnover.  Their learning models are scalable to public schools.  They help students become active, independent learners.  For more information, visit: http://thepowerofus.org.

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Laurie Bassi

Laurie Bassi lead author of Good Company, takes an in-depth look into the worthiness era.  The worthiness era is a convergence of economic, social and political forces requiring companies to be better employers, sellers and stewards of community and environment in order to make more profits.

Good Company systematically compiled information on the Fortune 100 and dispersed grades; A through F.  Good company index focuses on going beyond social responsibility.  Companies who use their core capabilities to make contributions to community and society are good companies such as Disney and FedEx who earned A’s.

Consumers require and buy more from a good company so the good guys make more money than the bad guys.  At the micro level power shifts show technology fueled people power which forces companies to be better.  To be good a company must be simultaneously caring, exacting and inspiring for example boards of directors should be involved and know about all levels in a company.

Go to www.glassdoor.com to see into that which is normally blocked and discover employee reviews about what it is like to work in 100,000 companies.  Salaries and interview processes are shared.  Also, www.wratings.com shows consumer experiences on 4000 companies.

Book signing:

November 15^th

12:00P.M.

Barnes and Noble Downtown Denver

Also available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Berrett Koehler Publishers

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