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USA Today: Retrain Your Brain from “Left” to “Right” to Fit into New Economy

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Published: July 14, 2009 under Archived Coaching News

July 14, 2009 – USA Today – Arlington, VA, USA

As stars of the Old Economy go, Shu Kim and Khanh Pham sparkled. Working for a storied finance firm — Kim, 40, as in-house counsel and Pham, 33, as a real estate investment banker — the two women deployed classic analytical left-brain skills to keep a seemingly well-oiled machine humming. A machine called Lehman Brothers.

Lehman is dead, but the two New Yorkers are alive and optimistic, thanks to a simple yet significant shift. They embraced their right brains, the bold, creative lobe that in the New Economy can make the difference between reinvention and extinction.

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Peter D. Slaughter on July 14, 2009

A great story, this might help reverse the bad effects of
the dumbing down of so many people in this country. It’s the only solution that might stop some of the bad, self destructive
behavior going on all across this country.
Peace

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