What is surprising about this whole business is that two skilled political operatives have ignored it for so long.

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What is most surprising about this practice is that people are actually SURPRISED when fraud is uncovered.

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What is so surprising to me about what the the Global 1000 are telling us, however, is what they are not doing.

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What is sort of surprising is how wildly overconfident Chesapeake was about the price they might be able to fetch for the assets.

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What's striking about this is that it's not surprising anymore.

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But this amazing video from Dan Pink, The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, suggests that Google is misdiagnosing the problem--and probably wasting a lot of shareholder money as well.

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As Daniel Pink has so compellingly argued in Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, once the issue of compensation is off the table, more money does not cause us to work harder, longer or more efficiently.

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