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The Crisis of Meaning in the Millennial Workforce
Let me get this straight. I’m supposed to come to work with you and work every day with the singular goal of maximizing the value for faceless, nameless people who could blow us off in a nanosecond if they had a bad hair day. Am I right?
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Millennials Have (and Need) Big Problems to Solve.
Rather than wringing their hands over young people’s fecklessness, educators, politicians, CEOs, and other leaders of this rising generation must learn to engage its need for a higher purpose by setting lofty and meaningful goals
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There’s More to Life than Mojitos on the Beach (or, Why People Climb the Freezing Cold Himalayas)
“Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend” – Loverboy What's the Big Idea? While it may be true, as Loverboy noted back in 1981, that many of us are “workin’ for the weekend,” that’s ... -
What Really Happens At Work?
What's the Big Idea? You've just hired someone. They've read the employee manual and signed all their paperwork. Your job as a manger is done, right? Not so fast, says Jennifer Deal, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership. In order to successfully integrate your new hire ...
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How Diversity Inspires Innovation
about 19 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? The essence of innovation is fusing ideas that have not been connected before, like Steve Jobs combination of calligraphy and technology to create Mac's graphical user interface. A fusion of business models can also inspire innovation, as when Netflix-style rentals ... Read More
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Is Your Boss a Robot? Here's How to Tell.
about 21 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? At the annual Loebner Prize Competition, robots and humans compete to convince judges they are actually human. Imagine your boss took part. Would his or her communication style qualify as robotic or human? If during a discussion, your boss responds to the last ... Read More
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Paul Ryan, Individual Liberty, and the Fate of Medicare
4 days ago
Just as Mitt Romney appears to be wrapping up the Republican nomination for the presidency, congressional Republicans are taking steps to set up their own political framework for the 2012 election. In short, the future of Medicare is on the line and a Romney vs. Obama match-up will surely address ... Read More
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The New Higher Education Playbook
10 days ago
"We have a fundamental misallocation of resources in higher ed. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars; the vast bulk of it is going to people who already have advantages, who already have so much, and yet we’re leaving people out of the system," says Andrew Rosen, CEO of Kaplan. Read More
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Outsourcing Talent in the Land of the Free?
12 days ago
The biggest problem facing the tech industry right now, says Kevin Ryan, CEO of Gilt Groupe, is a shortage of trained workers. Read More
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Is the U.S. Still the "Land of the Free?"
12 days ago
What's the Big Idea? Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... Immigration is an integral part of the story Americans tell themselves about who they are. A paper in the Journal of Politics found that more than 90% of Americans believe that just thinking of ... Read More
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Riding a Bicycle by Committee
13 days ago
At a time when the legal status of the corporate corpus is the subject of intense political debate, organizational entrepreneur Brian Robertson maintains that businesses aren’t acting human enough. Read More
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Moving a Cemetery: How to Drag Higher Education into the 21 Century
16 days ago
Our university system is bloated, inefficient, too expensive, and increasingly out-of-sync with a digital society and global economy. Dr. Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard, is on a mission to change the way we think about higher education. In his new ... Read More
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Better Than Free: You Don't Need an MBA to Invent a New Business Model
16 days ago
You don't need an MBA to come up with a groundbreaking business plan, says Lynda Weinman, co-founder of lynda.com. Read More
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Better Than Free: How Lynda.com Made a Pay Wall Pay
16 days ago
Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com, explains how she broke all the rules and made it to the top. Read More
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The Antiquated University
16 days ago
At the New York Times' “Schools for Tomorrow” conference, Larry Summers expressed his disappointment with our education system. The former Harvard President argued that, “The world is changing very rapidly… Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time.” He’s right. The system ... Read More
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Better Than Free: How Lynda.com Made a Pay Wall Pay
17 days ago
What's the Big Idea? Free is easy. In an age when just about anything can be shared, the hard part is getting people to pay for it. For ten years, content creators have argued that if you want watch, read, or listen to something, you have to support the writing, editing, and production work ... Read More
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