Mix Humility and Self-Confidence for Leadership Skills

   "Self-confidence without humility becomes a problem. I may be the CEO, but part of that was having a few skills, and part of it was luck. Part of it was the man upstairs...Blend those two {traits} together and you have someone who has a good chance of leading effectively."
   - Harry Kraemer, Baxter International CEO, quoted in Fast Company

Use Gestures to Make Your Words More Memorable

   Use hand gestures to amplify the effect of spoken words. Researchers have found that people recall more of what they hear when the speaker communicates with hand gestures.
   - Coss and Franz study, University of Otago, New Zealand; Science magazine.

Build a Simple Prototype to Sell Your Idea

   A panel of surgeons was looking for a new idea when an IDEO {design company} employee abruptly left the room and came back with a prototype made from a few office supplies -- a marker, a Kodak film canister, and a small orange clip - and handed it to a surgeon. His response: " Yeah, I'm thinking of something like this."
   - Fast Company story on Rules for Conservative Creativity

Stop Holding Your Cell Phone While Driving

   You already know this is a danger to you, other occupants, and other drivers. So put your cell phone in a modular, easy-to-install bracket. See www.proclipusa.com
   - as reviewed by New York Times

Graduation Headline: You're not an adult until age 26!

   Most Americans think adulthood begins at age 26, when a person finishes school, gets a full-time job, and starts raising a family. Researches call this an "extended adolescence," a much more gradual transition than in previous generations.
   - University of Chicago study, from Mercury News wire services)