"Until now, I organised wedding fairs but while talking to associations and lawyers who told me about the difficulties of divorce, I had this idea, " he said.
At our recent annual user conference, I caught up with another senior executive who told me about a new technique his company was using to motivate employees.
While in Japan visiting customers, I met a brilliant project leader for a Japanese engineering firm who told me about how she has eliminated project-related emails by using their project management software.
Finally, I talked to Yosuke Morishima, a post-doctoral student in micro economics and experimental economic research at the University of Zurich, who told me about a classic behavioral economics study conducted in the mid 1980s.
Last Spring, I met with the Dean of a Top 10 MBA program who told me all this noise about entrepreneurship was just that: noise.
Nan Hayworth, a Tea Party representative from upstate New York who lost to a Democrat in November, told me about a Southern Republican who once tried to win her support for a colleague on some internal conference position.
Two reporters who write about security issues told me they were struck by the change in approach.
Fernandopulle told me about a woman who had seen a cardiologist for chest pain two decades ago, when she was in her twenties.
An NFL owner (who requested anonymity) told me earlier this year about the first time Smith addressed the owners after taking the NFLPA job.
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Jane told me a story about a client who wanted to hire her for her expertise with Japanese maples.
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John Watson, who writes and blogs about climbing and bouldering, told me MacLeod had "effectively stretched the limit of extreme climbing".
He told me a story about a client who, having bought her first pair of his heels, was forced to slacken the pace of her morning walk.
When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.
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Ms. KHUMALO: The director came to me and told me about the story, and he said he don't see anybody who can play it better than me.
Several doctors who were unhappy about the direction medicine had taken in McAllen told me the same thing.
And, most tellingly, a young woman in Texas, Vogeltanz told me, was rescued from sex trafficking because someone who had heard about the END IT movement questioned whether she was in trouble.
One minister I saw over the summer who isn't prone to hyperbole told me that the decisions Tony Blair is about to take could define politics for a generation.
Jesse Salazar, wine director of Union Square, told me that most people who sought out Pinotage were "wine beginners" who had read about but never tried the grape, or people who had recently been to South Africa.
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For example, one insider told me back in March 2008 that he spoke with a hedge fund honcho who bragged about the profits he made by shorting Bear Stearns shares as it orchestrated a massive withdrawals of hedge fund money from the now defunct Wall Street firm.
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Later on, I said something about being told I could come back after November and she wanted to know who told me that!
The driver regaled us with every fat reward he had gotten for returning parcels, and I told him about the half-dozen cabbies who had brought various forgotten briefcases and phones back to me over the years.
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Bowden, who penned a memoir called Freddie and Me about his time spent apprenticing under a legendary Augusta caddy, told me that the course was full of fishy spots.
Three times in a little over a week I received unsolicited PR pitches from people who told me I was part of their blogger outreach program and they wanted me to write a piece in Forbes about their content marketing programs.
General Schwarzkopf told me he learned a lot about respect and dealing calmly and appropriately with people from his father, who was a U.S. Army major and the lead investigator in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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