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Retrain your brain from ‘left’ to ‘right’ to fit into new economy

July 14, 2009 /

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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.

By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2009-07-13-right-vs-left-brains_N.htm

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