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Three interesting choices by Rich Karlgaard, editor of Forbes. What books would you give to a new graduate?
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Think math isn't important. Rich Karlgard writes on the implications of mathematical illteracy. Math may make the difference in finding a treatment for cancer or avoiding self inflicted financial damage.
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As food shortages mount around the world, many nations are hoarding their food supplies and restricting exports. For impoverished importer nations, this is leading to crisis. More than oil, will the lack of food spark international conflict?
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So...you're a one person business but desperately need a vacation with your family. You're feeling trapped. What do you do? Here are some excellent tips.
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Does being rich make you happier? Some studies say so, but Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winning economist, has researched that wealthier people spend less time enjoying life and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.
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Your reputation is increasingly vulnerable as what is known or said about you is simply out there on the web. A necessary and emerging personal and corporate skill is how to monitor and manage your online reputation.
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The National Counsel of Teachers of English redefine literacy. No, they're not throwing away traditional literacy but are recognizing that the concept of literacy must be expanded to include skills for a digital and global 21st century.
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Innovative phone company startup, Ribbit, aims to transform phone calls to have the control and functionality of email. Let your phone ring in your browser. Direct calls to the phone you specify. Not only know the caller but use Twitter and Facebook to
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Google wants to move the Internet forward by both making the cloud and the client more capable. It's also a direct threat to Microsoft. Read this overview of Google's vision for the Internet.
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Cubes&Crayons of Menlo Park offers office space for self-employed or freelance workers who need office space and childcare at the same time. An innovative offering to help solve work-life challenges.
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Card balances jumped 9% in the last year and the number of cards issued increased 7.6%. Americans are faced with significantly rising expenses without a corresponding increase in income or an ability to increase income.
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Karlgaard points out how innumeracy, that is mathematical illiteracy, may be keeping doctors and biologists from seeing a solution for cancer. A basic understanding of math may be a reason behind so many poor decisions and practices.
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The Boston Celtics are using video, tagging, and statistical analysis to improve their play. Edwards W. Deming was known to say that most management decisions were made based on superstition not data. What kind of decisions do you make?
Read more at freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com
Don't seek a job title. Instead develop a personal brand statement. Here are tips on developing your personal brand. What do you want your brand to say about you?
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Does your place meet the criteria? Or if you are thinking of starting a business should you consider one of these places instead?
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Even people in the middle of the crisis are having a hard time understanding how this has happened. Here's an attempt to make it understandable to us "laymen".
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From the World Economic Forum 2008, a 10 minute video exploring four scenarios for global engineering and construction.
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The use of credit is exploding around the world. While convenient, the risks of using plastic is also rising. Excellent graphics explaining the situation globally.
Read more at www.foreignpolicy.com
Type in a city and get the scoop on factors that determine if it is one of the best places to live. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?
Read more at www.bestplaces.net
Teaching kids to be materialistic causes them to feel valuable for what they own, not who they are. It also impairs the ability of the child to value cooperation and community. Materialism is also linked to increase in mental health problems.
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And you thought open source was just for code? Try construction. Here's an ingenious example of using open source to create a machine that makes building blocks, enough to build a house each day using...dirt.
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Immigrants who start businesses in the U.S. are more likely to have been entrepreneurs in their home country. What are the implications for immigration reform?
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China is an estimated five million users shy of surpassing the U.S. Though mostly through internet cafes, the home and business market is growing.
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New homes and neighborhoods must cater to a life time home standard that enables people to live their entire life - even through advanced age and the physical and mobility challenges that buildings often pose. Will U.S. be next?
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Report describing the huge rise of new forms of data that will transform the world's internet capabilities and uses. This reflects the growing dominance of video and media traffic. YouTube is an example of the first wave. The second wave will be Intern
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There are more active internet users than any other country, the vast majority of them are under 30 years old. But the way the internet is used in China is different from the rest of the world.
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Slideshow. In a world that is getting more crowded and energy concerns are rising, here are some innovative ideas from the world of prefabricated modular housing.
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Social networking will continue to mature. Here is a summary of some of what may evolve in 2008, including an increase of the involvement of older users, the increase of specialty niche networks, and the rise of mobile social media technology.
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Seth Godin offers some lessons for the music industry in a digital age, but his lessons could apply to anyone who is in the business of creating unique content.
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A special report on the patterns of immigration from a global perspective. The surprising finding is that it has been mostly beneficial for sending and receiving countries. This is also a map of where the global workforce and talent is moving.
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Content producers must grapple with the challenge of the new online media business models. They must go beyond content creation to content aggregation and community management as well.
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From health scientists to urban designers, experts are joining forces to study the effects and changes necessary in the layout and design of streets, houses, and transportation systems for women. Safety is a major issue.
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Howard Rheingold's syllabus for a course on virtual community/social media at Berkley. Examine the questions raised. Peruse the reading requirements. Increasingly universities will be teaching students how to use social media.
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Sam Zell thinks that about the Tribune which he just purchased. Most CEO's today lack the accountability that an owner provides. The same might be said of the Christian view of stewardship - is there a strong enough sense of the Owner?
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What are the four most important aspects of a leader's work? Nikos Mourkogiannis provides his perspective: think, inspire, mobilize, and inspire.
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Vietnamese Americans are flocking to Houston for affordable housing, lower cost of living, business opportunities, and a growing Vietnamese community. This is only one aspect of the trend of people moving out of California.
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Teen online creation of content is up to 64% from 57% in 2004. Teens embrace the conversational nature of online communications.
Read more at www.pewinternet.org
Some types of new media usage have soared as much as 50% in the past 8 months. Habits are changing rapidly. You can no longer choose a media to advertise on but must have a multiplatform strategy.
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Douglas Karr predicts that 2008 is the year that applications and strategies online go "micro".
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Have you asked that question? Here's an article that explains the basics with an extended example from the Discovery Channel to show you how a wiki can be used in business.
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BusinessWeek Innovation chief, Bruce Nussbaum talks about the differences between Indian and Chinese innovation.
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Creating a business that expresses what you believe is not a uniquely Christian thing. Here are five examples, article and slide show, of people of different faiths who started businesses.
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Here's a look at some consumer trends that are emerging for the year to come. Plenty of ideas for your business.
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What if you got rich picking stocks but then realized that everything you and markets thought was wrong? A look at the myths and lies that drive the investment world and one man's journey out. Important read for investors.
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Recent speech at his annual Telecosm conference about entrepreneurs, technology and the economy. Prescient insights.
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Is this a biblical support for value pricing over time-billing? Thought provoking.
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Are you still charging for time? Consider the equation of the professional firm of the future that bills for value. Interview by author Ron Baker.
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Looking to donate excess inventory, overstock or other supplies to a nonprofit? Throwplace is a global platform that enables nonprofits to browse the inventory for what they need for free. Check this out if your company would like to contribute.
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Study shows that word of mouth, not networking through key influencers, is more powerful. The lesson is to create something great, sow the seeds of the idea widely, and trust that regular folks will be eager to pass it along to their friends.
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The military has often been a leader in applying new technologies. Now they are seeing the benefits of what is emerging out of gaming and virtual reality. What ideas might you apply to utilizing these new technologies to your organization?
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With over half the world's population living in cities, what should we be thinking from an economic, sociological, political, and environmental perspective. This distinguished panel gives some perspectives.
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Kids are growing up digital from toddlers learning ABC's to teens on Facebook. Their view is more global and digital, but mainstays like using a map or a dictionary, writing in cursive, or just writing a note on paper are declining.
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Expert predicts that the appeal of online worlds is such that he fears a massive exodus of people from the real world to the virtual world. What would be the consequences to society should that happen?
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What is it like at a company when the workers truly are and act as owners?
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Designer Vera Wang, musician Wynton Marsalis, Chief Investment Officer Bill Gross - here are a few of their work and productivity secrets along with other business gurus.
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Increasingly companies are global. And that demands executives who have not just lived abroad or studied abroad, but who have real business experience abroad. Maybe an international assignment is your next career move.
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Boards shouldn't wait until there is a crisis in leadership before thinking about succession. It should always be in the front of their minds. And they need to be constantly thinking about what qualities, experiences, and capabilities they need in a suc
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What is the role of authenticity in branding? Is authenticity something that we create or is it something that develops over time? How is it developed?
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Does the fact that your company or product does "good" make a difference to customers? Research shows that the answer is "yes" and that customers will pay 6.1% more on average for such products.
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A Nokia study predicts that by 2012 25% of all entertainment will be created, produced and shared by peers rather than traditional media. Consider the implications to your business model and personal media habits.
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An insightful look at how a big corporation is looking at the challenges of the internet. 10 minute video.
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Tom Peters points out the problem with Big Hairy Audacious Goals is that they are often not clear and compelling. It's not the goal but how it is communicated. Is your BHAG a CCAG - Clear and Compelling Audacious Goal?
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Workers in Asia and Eastern Europe will see the biggest pay increases next year with Indian workers getting the top raises at 9.8% due to continue economic growth spurred by off-shoring.
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The free applications not only save money to enterprises, but surprisingly also spark collaboration which results in innovation. The example of CapGemini is reported here.
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Japan's education system has produced strong technical skills but is not developing the communications, creative, and entrepreneurial skills necessary to complete in the global economy.
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Online retailers are expected to be shopped by 4.6M shoppers per minute. 72 million are expected to shop on Cyber Monday 2007.
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Will Kindle be a step toward providing digital access to all the books on Amazon? Will Amazon not only change the way books are sold but also the nature of the book itself?
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The myths and the realities of the younger workers in the workplace. Understanding the difference may be the edge to retaining these valuable people in your organization.
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Megachurches begin commercial enterprises from shopping centers to limo services. The aim is to serve the local economy and create opportunities for evangelism. There have been models of this dating back to medieval times, but is it biblical?
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To offset the guilt of high end resorts, more and more of these developments are attempting to be more environmentally and socially conscious in their design and operation. Some of this is called "green washing" where the appearance is more than the real
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A look at the cutting edge of design from Japan as designers think about the implications of sustainable and green design to a whole range of products. Ideas to stimulate your design thinking.
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Vaguely mentioning "online experience" USA Today cuts jobs. This is an example of the increasing need to be technologically literate and experienced in the online world in all work.
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Excellent series of articles in this special report on the growing role of religion in the public arena and politics around the world. Informative briefing.
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This leading technological thought leader contends that religious faith is central to the process of innovation.
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Physical exercise is better than all the so-called "brain exercises" being pitched when it comes to slowing cognitive decline associated with aging. So get up and get moving!
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Historically, these nations have been technological innovators that then went through prolonged technological stagnation. Their technological power is advancing again, but what is the impact on their own countries?
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An ingenious idea out of the UK. Do Good 4 Debt has a two-fold objective of helping students pay off school debt while giving companies more control over charitable contributions. The students are "hired" to do charitable work, and the companies contrib
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59% of Gen Y business owners see themselves as serial entrepreneurs vs. 33% of baby boomers. We're seeing this. Are you prepared for this? Are you preparing your children to be entrepreneurs. We may be seeing an unprecedented period of innovation.
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At the end of the day, it may be that we want small, focused communities rather than larger, random networks. People actually want to connect, not just network.
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News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters Slashdot is a technology blog that links its 1,000,000 users to all the news stories of the day that nerds find interesting. A heated discussion usually ensues each story.
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Doc Searls is: Senior editor for Linux Journal, the original (and still the leading) Linux publication; Proprietor of Doc Searls' IT Garage, a group journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Information Te
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Rattle The Cage is a community of leaders who are passionate about what they want to achieve, as well as those who desire to become strong leaders. Our mission is to assist you on your journey by bringing together thought leaders and practice leaders from
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Ideas that matter in technology, entertainment, and design The TED conference is an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration. (More at TED.com) The TEDBlog covers the same ground, on a rather more frequent basis.
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The Barna Group provides primary research, communications tools, printed resources, leadership development for young people, and church facilitation and enhancement. The ultimate aim of the firm is to partner with Christian ministries and individuals to b
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BBL Forum is a member-based organization comprised of qualified Christian CEOs, business owners and company presidents. It is a network of professionals who are like-minded both spiritually and corporately.
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Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was one of the individuals responsible for the succe
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Red Herring is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its staff of award-winning journalists tell readers what's first, what matters and most importantly, why.
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An independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. They rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Read more at www.trendwatching.com
Remember when we were kids? Long before we dreamed of falling in love or hitting a hole-in-one, we dreamed about what we wanted to be when we grew up. The whole concept of work fueled our play. And even though we couldn't articulate it at the time, those
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Salon.com is the Web's best newspaper — original, newsworthy information and commentary with a distinct point of view. Salon publishes original content daily, expressly for the Web.
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GBN's network spans the globe, blending strategic thinkers from leading companies in established and emerging industries; visionaries from the sciences, arts, business, and academia; and a community of practice engaged in innovating and transferring tools
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Design, technology, business, life. Professor John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab blogs his thoughts on the "complex topic of simplicity". Based on his book of the same name, he works from of ten fundamental laws.
Read more at www.lawsofsimplicity.com
The new web revolution is characterized by the democratization of content. One-click publishing platforms make it easy for anybody to be on the internet. Crowdsourcing takes this idea to the commercial level, harvesting content from the online masses inst
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The go-to place for management
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The best Web apps ever, acording to YOU Every day, more real utility is being delivered over the Web. Full applications can now be run in a browser, accessible from any computer, and software is no longer required for many applications. This new website
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Don't live to geek; geek to live Users submit lifehacks on everything from cleaning an Apple mouse, consolidating credit cards, wiring your home theater, to learning a foreign language using podcasts. As their tagline says, Computers make us more produ
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An article on the Biblical value of work.
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A short article on the spirituality of work by Rich Karlgaard
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After decades of concern about the challenges posed by an exploding population, it's now becoming clear that the world has passed an inflection point. Global populations are declining and that poses a whole new set of challenges.
Read more at www.economist.com
