ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills
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College Success Strategies

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"Having personal learning patterns that don’t match up perfectly with your academic major does not mean you are doomed for failure. What it does mean is that you will need to develop strategies to temporarily modify your learning patterns to meet the needs of the course work or occupation, which isn’t always easy." [Learning Connections Resources]
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Decisions Don't Start with Data

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I recently worked with an executive keen to persuade his colleagues that their company should drop a long-time vendor in favor of a new one. He knew that members of the executive team opposed the idea (in part because of their well-established relationships with the vendor) but he didn’t want to confront them directly, so he put together a PowerPoint presentation full of stats and charts showing the cost savings that might be achieved by the change. He hoped the data would speak for itself. But it didn’t. The team stopped listening about a third of the way through the presentation. Why? It was good data. The executive was right. But, even in business meetings, numbers don’t ever speak for themselves......


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