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 May 19, 2009

Interview with Robin Hogarth, author of Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work for You
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Mike Carruthers:
Your life, my life, everyone's life is governed in large part by luck and chance.

Robin Hogarth:
Most people, however, underestimate the role of chance in life. And in particular we tend to think we can predict things that are unpredictable.

Robin Hogarth

Mike Carruthers:
In our workplace culture there is this assumption that collaboration is always good.

 Morten H. Hansen:
The more I collaborate, the more you collaborate, the better off you are - and that's simply wrong; you've got to figure out the difference between good and bad collaboration.

Mike Carruthers:

Remember not all that long ago when you bought an airline ticket you'd get it from your local travel agent.

Michelle Morgan:
In the 80's there were travel agencies on every corner because they primarily dispensed airline tickets, which had to be distributed in paper.

 June 17, 2009
Interview with Jordana Gustafson, Editor of
www.sustainlane.com
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Mike Carruthers:
In order to save money on air-conditioning, many people believe it's best to keep a room at the same temperature all the time rather than turn the A/C up and down.

Jordana Gustafson:
And this is actually not true - the energy that's used to re-cool a space is always going to be less than or equal to the amount of energy used to keep it at a consistent lower temperature.

Interview with Tom McNulty, author of Clean Like A Man
www.cleanlikeaman.com
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Mike Carruthers:
You know those fabric softener sheets you put in the dryer? They're good for other things too.

Tom McNulty:
I put them under the seats in my car, in the trunk, under my bed sheets when I change the bed…

Interview with James Windell, author of The Fatherstyle Advantage
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Mike Carruthers:
We've always had a sense that fathers are important in raising good kids, but now there's solid research that explains why.

James Windell:
Well for one thing the way fathers play with children is much different. Fathers have a more physical, roughhousing type of play.

 June 22, 2009
Interview with Lon Safko, author of The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success

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Mike Carruthers:
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace - these are incredibly popular social networking websites. So what's all the fuss about?

 Lon Safko:
Social networks just means that like-minded people - people that you have something in common with - can all aggregate in the same place and exchange these ideas and by doing that build this trusted network. 

 June 23, 2009

Interview with Irene Smalls, Founder of Literacise
www.literacise.com

Mike Carruthers:
For kids to do well in school they need to study but what you don't hear much about is the connection between doing well in school and exercise.

Irene Smalls:
Exercise stimulates the formulation of new brain cells. Exercise helps overweight youngsters learn; physically fit kids do better in school.

 
            Irene Smalls

June 24, 2009

Interview with Ric Merrifield, author of Rethink

Mike Carruthers:
A common trap many managers in business fall into is they get so caught up in how the business functions that they lose sight of what it is the business does and what's important.

Ric Merrifield:
I like to use the example of the Newman's Own organization that Paul Newman founded, initially with salad dressings.

     Ric Merrifield 

 June 25, 2009

Interview with Susan Joyce, Editor of
www.Job-Hunt.org
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Mike Carruthers:
If you're in the market for a new job perhaps the first thing you should do is Google your own name to see what comes up.

Susan Joyce:
This one poor guy has the same name as a sex offender and so you Google this guy's name and who comes up - the other guy. So he keeps having to go out and establish a separate identity for himself using his middle name.

 
      Susan Joyce

 June 29, 2009

Interview with Dr. David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

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Mike Carruthers:
To understand why people overeat you have to realize that our brains are wired to focus our attention on the most salient, most important stimulus in our environment.

Dr. David Kessler:
You know for some people it can be alcohol, it could be tobacco but for many people it's fat, sugar, and salt.

 June 30, 2009

Interview with Dr. David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
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Mike Carruthers:
When people have an overeating problem it’s seldom because they’re overeating broccoli and cauliflower – no it’s typically foods that are high in fat, sugar, and salt. How do you fight those cravings.

Dr. David Kessler:
The best way is to want something more - then you’re going to focus on what you want more rather than on fat, sugar, and salt.

     David Kessler, M.D.

 July 2, 2009
Interview with Robert Mack, author of Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment
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Mike Carruthers:
Happiness: we often think of happiness as the result of something - when we get that job, when we make enough money or when we get married.

Robert Mack:
But the truth is that successful life outcomes and circumstances (all those things we just mentioned) account for only about ten percent of how happy or unhappy you are. So happiness is something that's a lot more than simply getting what you want.

 July 3, 2009

Interview with James O'Toole, author of The New American Workplace
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Mike Carruthers:
The American workplace has changed a lot in the past few decades one dramatic shift is the notion of retiring at sixty-five.

James O'Toole:
Sixty-five today is the new fifty-five and people still feel young at age sixty-five and they want to keep working and are generally disinclined to sit on the front porch in the rocker.

                James  O'Toole

July 8, 2009

Interview with John S. Friedman, author of Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival
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Mike Carruthers:
Your chances of being struck by lightning this year are one in seven hundred and fifty thousand.

John S. Friedman:
Height is very important; if you're the highest object in an area it's likely that you're going to be struck. 

John S. Friedman

July 9, 2009

Interview with Mardi Horowitz, M.D., author of A Course in Happiness   
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Mike Carruthers:
The world is full of people who are unhappy, and it turns out there are two things that tend to produce discontent for these people.

Mardi Horowitz, M.D.:
What I call the "toxic twins" that tend to produce discontent are blaming and entitlement. That is people who feel too entitled and then blame everybody else or something else for what happens bad to them.

 July 14, 2009

Interview with Jim Champy author Inspire!: Why Customers Come Back
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Mike Carruthers:
The lifeblood of any business is its customers. And getting and keeping those customers isn't as easy as it used to be.

Jim Champy:
It's about having a value proposition in what you offer that inspire customers to come back - and I mean that truly not just superficially.                    

 July 27, 2009

Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It's Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love

www.emmerichgroup.com 
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Mike Carruthers:
What really makes people happy at work?

Roxanne Emmerich:
There's interesting research on this that shows that happiness at work has to do with creating massive results - people feel good about themselves when they know that they've kicked some butt and took some names and that they're making good things happen.

   Roxanne Emmerich

 July 28, 2009

Interview with Richard Brodie author of  Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to believe we think for ourselves. But do we?

Richard Brodie:
A lot of the things we think of as being our own original ideas aren't really that way at all. We catch them from somewhere, we catch them from our upbringing, from TV.

Richard Brodie

Interview with Mark Goulston author of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

September 29, 2009
Interview with Dr. Travis Stork, host of the TV show The Doctors

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Mike Carruthers:
Most emergency room visits are not in an ambulance where seconds count. So if you are headed to the ER, take a few moments to prepare.

Dr. Travis Stork:
You need to know that you’re meeting a doctor for the first time and he or she has to put together the puzzle and part of that puzzle is your own history and the medicines you take.

September 30, 2009

Interview with Marsha Kline Pruett author of Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently--Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage

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Mike Carruthers:
A common source of conflict for couples is parenting. Because men and women tend to discipline very differently.

Marsha Kline Pruett:
For instance men tend to focus on real world consequences, “Hey don’t do that other kids won’t like that.”

Marsha Kline Pruett

 April 12, 2010
Interview with Jessica Pryce-Jones author of Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success

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Mike Carruthers:
Just how happy and content you are at work is determined by several factors.

Jessica Pryce-Jones:
It looks to be about 50% of your happiness comes with who you are. 10-15% comes with the context that you find yourself in – but 35-40% comes from how you manage that context.
 

 April 12, 2010
Interview with Jessica Pryce-Jones author of Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success

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