Whether Carr or Shirky are right about what the Internet hath wrought--and they probably both are to some extent--both neglect the element of choice in all this.

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Laws vary from state to state, but in all states, clinicians who suspect abuse or neglect are required by law to file a report with child welfare offices.

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You also should have enough to cover life's inevitable, unanticipated expenses, like a leaky roof or dead furnace not just in your primary home but also in all of your investment properties (which likely suffered abuse and neglect on their way to becoming bargains).

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But what they will take away from scandals like these is that banks cannot be trusted, and what lots of folks in the financial world neglect to understand is that without trust, their business (and all business) dies .

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Neglect traditional get-out-the-vote organizing efforts in favor of riding around in a bus all day eating doughnuts with reporters.

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While these points are all important for your business to succeed, many leaders will often neglect these key factors (in particular their employees) by taking a more top-down, rather than bottom-up approach.

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