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I just want to share some of the interesting website and blog articles I’ve read this August.

The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility by the Wall Street Journal. Interesting take on why Corporate Social Responsibility may be an impossible proposition for most profit-oriented corporations.

The New Social Entrepreneur. It seems that governments are looking for social entrepreneurs to launch various social projects to ease their national budgets. Good idea, if you ask me!

The Changing Face of the Entrepreneurial World. Joel Young highlights the important trends that have been occurring in the United States in the entrepreneurship sector and how the future world of entrepreneurship may change.

FitzVillafuerte wrote about the importance of being uncomfortable–it can help us grow.

Business Sphere, on the other hand, has written twelve great quotations!

If you want to change some habits in your life, Oscar of FreestyleMind offers several tips on how you can create Habits that Stick!

You can still function even if you are feeling down. Follow this tips from Amit Sodha to Balance Your Emotions!

Been doing my blog rounds lately and I found the following interesting blog reads for the first week of February.

• MintBlog writes about What TV Characters can Teach us about money!
• Ian of My Bad Habits says We Need to Ask for Advice and Actually Follow them!
• Are you a master haggler? If not, heed this advice from GetRichSlowly on how you can haggle!
• Are you a leader? Then you should go first whenever there is action! says MichaelHyatt
• Lisa Morosky posted some Thoughts on her Markets
• Addicted to Verbal Affirmations? Hulbert Lee says you need other means of affirmation as well!

From the Philippine blogosphere, here are some interesting reads:

• Develop Your Marketing Skills from Tyrone’s blog MillionaireActs
• Some practical advice if you do not pay your credit card debt from Fitz’s blog
• Ten Things You Must Know before Starting your Business from Vic’s BusinessAccent

Don’t forget to check out our ongoing Ignite Yourself series. It’s about discovering your strengths, weaknesses and crafting your personal development plan.

It’s the weekend again! and it’s already the end of the month! Whew! I can’t believe the first month of January is over! This transformational leadership blog is also officially one month old! Hurray! I still need to work on a lot of things for it to gain momentum and take off the ground.

With that said, here are the interesting blog reads part 4 for January! The first set, of course, comes from MightyRasing.com and the other ones from the blogs I frequent at.

If you want to grow as a leader, this blog has a four-part series on Developing Your Character for Leadership!

1. Eighteen Ways to Rediscovering and Recapturing your Leadership Passion
2. Are You Giving Up Responsibility by Committing These Leadership Mistakes?
3. Nurture the Elements of Accountability or Lose Your Leadership
4. The Developing Leader’s Guide to Structure, Hierarchy and Organizational Culture

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I haven’t been very active in commenting in other blogs. I’ve been experimenting with Article Marketing as a way of promoting this blog and gaining momentum for takeoff. But I’ve noticed quite a blog reads.

• Accountability pays wrote about the Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Keith.
• Bradley Moore wrote about the Importance of Taking a Micro-Sabbatical over at Michael Hyatt’s blog.
• Are you unhappy in your workplace? Eric Douglass says a new report highlights unhappiness in the workplace.
• Do You Feel Like a Fraud The Smart Bear has some insights on how to deal with self-doubt.
• Amit Sodha in his UnlimitedChoice blog says you should be grateful but don’t be a pushover! If there’s injustice, go get ‘em!!

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I’ve been slow in making my blog reading rounds lately. Thankfully though I have prepared in advance for the articles here at our Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Blog. I even started a new blogpost series on Developing Your Character for Leadership.

Here’s my blog reads for the past week.

• Are your parents in debt? Fitz provides some tips on What to do if your parents are in debt trouble.
• Tyrone of MillionaireActs.com, on the other hand, lists some ways to Make Money from your Home
• Text scams are being sent to lots of people in the Philippines, PinoyMoneytalk shows How to Report Text Scams.
• Entrebankph recommends 10 Business concepts to be mastered for the year 2010. It’s just the first month of the year, so you still have time to lay down your plans.
• Vic of BusinessAccent.com shares that it is not Money that is the root of all evil. It’s the LOVE of MONEY that is!
• Bestselling Filipino Leadership Author and blogger, Francis Kong shows how we can learn from Another Dog Story
• With 2010 comes opportunities and worries, too! Alan Tan lists down the Top Three Financial Worries of the year.
• If you’re looking for some business training opportunities, PinoyBisnis has some Philippine business training opportunities for you.

From outside the Philippines, here are interesting posts I found.

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