Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Taste for Dallas Sports Fundraiser Thursday Feb. 2nd
A Taste for Dallas
Sports Scores Big with
Greater Yield
Dallas firm supports Rotary Club
fundraiser as Platinum Sponsor
Greater
Yield, a Dallas-based provider of customized enterprise transformation
solutions, is the 2012 Platinum Sponsor of “A Taste for Dallas Sports.”
This charity event held on February 2 by the Dallas Trinity Rotary Club and
the Rotary Club of Dallas raises money to support service projects and
scholarships for youth in the Dallas area through a silent auction and raffle.
A Taste for Dallas Sports
began in 2006 to
celebrate Dallas-Fort Worth sports teams and raise funds and awareness for
various service projects. These projects include initiatives by local Rotary
clubs to show students how to recognize, develop and utilize their leadership,
scholarship and service capabilities. Other projects focus on improving
literacy, aiding inter-city youth, providing special needs assistance programs
and granting student scholarships.
“As a member of the Dallas community
for almost two decades, Greater Yield has had the opportunity to see many of the
Rotary Club’s initiatives make a lasting impact in our area, such as providing
scholarships for youth and college-aged students,” said Debbie Womack, principal
of Greater Yield. “We recognize the importance of this event and are honored to
support Rotary and its beneficiaries as the Platinum
sponsor.”
A Taste for Dallas
Sports will be held
from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Dallas, 400 N. Olive St. in the Draft
Media Sports Room. The evening will include a silent auction and raffle drawing,
with the winner receiving between 2-4 tickets for one game for each of the
following Dallas teams: Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers, FC Dallas and the
Byron Nelson. The winner does not have to be present.
Tickets to the event are $25 each or a
book of five for $100. Each ticket admits one person to the raffle drawing and
silent auction where refreshments and snacks will be served. A cash bar will
also be available. To purchase tickets and find out more information about A
Taste for Dallas Sports, click here.
Quote of the
Day…
“President Obama
taking credit for higher oil and natural gas production is like the rooster
taking credit for the sunrise…If the president were serious about solving
America's energy woes, he wouldn’t allow his environmental allies to stand in
the way…”- The Editorial Board in the Washington Times (1/30)
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Smart Thinking-3 Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate and Get Things Done
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| Courtesy of Marsha Miller |
Jon-David sits down with Psychologist Art Markman this evening at 7:05P to discuss his new book. USA Today did an earlier Q&A with him. Check it out!
Psychologist Art Markman has studied thinking for 20 years. In his new book, Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done, he combines what's known from cognitive research with a how-to approach. Markman, of theUniversity of Texas
in Austin , tells USA
Q: Is your definition of "smart" different from what we consider overall intelligence? If so, how?
Psychologist Art Markman has studied thinking for 20 years. In his new book, Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done, he combines what's known from cognitive research with a how-to approach. Markman, of the
Q: Is your definition of "smart" different from what we consider overall intelligence? If so, how?
A:
Smart and intelligent are related, but they really aren't the same. The kinds
of problems we give people on intelligence tests typically focus on the ability
to solve very abstract problems that don't resemble things you do on a daily
basis. But when people are doing smart things in the world, they are solving
problems. They are creating new things. They are saying things and thinking
thoughts that have not been thought in that way before. Those are the kinds of
things that are really smart behaviors.
Q:
InSmart Thinking, you say creating smart habits that can become useful
habits helps people become smarter. How does that work?
A:
Most of what we do day-to-day we do without thinking. That's a good thing,
because you don't want to spend your life planning every single movement and
every single action. But the reason that this becomes central to smart thinking
is because, as much as possible, you want to organize your life so that the
things you do by habit are things that are going to promote smarter behavior.
Q:
You also delve into how memory works.Why do people have so much trouble
remembering names?
A:
Memory is all about connection. Names are arbitrary. You often can't remember
this person's name, but you remember where they work and that they have three
kids. You remember all the stuff that was connected that made the person the
person, but (not) this piece of information that's arbitrary but really
important — their name. The funny thing is as soon as you start thinking about
this person, all of this other information comes back. You remember what they
like and this joke they told you -- just this one piece of it is hard to get at
because it's not really connected to anything.
Q: You say multitasking
is dangerous.
A:
Multitasking is one of the evils of the modern world. We really don't do many
things at once. What we do is split our time across all the different things
we're trying to do. And there are two problems with that. One is there's a cost
to switching back and forth between the things you're trying to do and the
other is if you're participating in some kind of event that's unfolding in
time, you're going to miss things when you switch your attention away from that
event. If you're sitting in a meeting and checking your e-mail at the same
time, you're not really doing both at same time, you're doing a little bit of
e-mail and a little bit of meeting. Anything that happens at the meeting while
you're working on the e-mail, you've just missed.
Q:
What are the habits you call "self-limiting"?
A:
We go to meetings and we're supposed to learn something from the meeting, and
now, as soon as we leave the meeting, we whip out a smartphone and start
checking our messages and see what texts came in. The problem is that this
habit of checking your smartphone is leaving what you remember about that
meeting up to chance.One of the things that's very effective in learning is
spending a little bit of time at the very end of the experience reviewing what
just happened and saying to yourself what are the three most important things
that just happened here. By moving too quickly on to the next thing, you're not
giving yourself a chance to make sure you figure out what it is you want to
remember.
Q:
How can we fight the downsides of multitasking?
A:
Rather than multitask, I think we need to prioritize. I'm not saying at the end
of a meeting or an event to spend the next hour pondering what just happened.
But if you took 90 seconds and reviewed the meeting before you moved on to the
next thing, you would do yourself a tremendous amount of good. I recommend that
people buy a little digital recorder and when you leave a meeting summarize to
yourself what just happened. You never have to listen to that recording again.
The recorder is there primarily so you don't feel stupid about talking to
yourself. Taking 90 seconds helps to solidify the experience you just had and
will improve your memory for it rather than just moving on to the next thing.
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