VUCAST: Controlling your “inner elephant”

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2010-09-10
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Vanderbilt University
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Video @ Vanderbilt - Videos - VUCAST: Controlling your 'inner elephant.'" By Vanderbilt University. Amy Wolf appears for VUCast News Network. She reports on Project Pyramid, in which Owen Graduate School of Management students and School of Engineering students are cooperating to create new products useful in developing countries, both in themselves and as potential business opportunities for the people there. The Vanderbilt Class of 2014 is welcomed in a brief segment. Wolf reports on Vanderbilt management professor Richard Daft's new book The Executive and the Elephant, which advocates cultivating your "inner elephant" to become a stronger leader and improve your relationships with others. The sports blog Bleacher Report's recognition of the Vanderbilt football Commodores' 2010 schedule poster as the best in the nation is reported. Wolf notes that country songwriter Odie Blackmon will teach "The Art of Songwriting" at Blair School of Music.
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News stories, Biogas digester, Foot pedal, Project Pyramid, Human-powered, Executive and the elephant, Inner elephant, Bleacher Report, 2010 football schedule poster, Art of Songwriting
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