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Our colleague, Bernard Moon, is an astute observer of tech trends. Here’s his latest post from Mashable on the future of micro-blogging, the Tina Fey of Web 2.0.
Second in Bernard Moon's two-part recollection on how business ethics can be passed from one generation to the next.
Dan Wooldridge continues his challenge to the parents, educators and leaders of today to prepare our children for today's world.
Dan Wooldridge explores how the first ones who chronicled the life of Jesus provided a model for communicating in diverse global cultures and emerging generation.
Every two years the Josephson Institute conducts a national survey of ethics among U.S. high school students. The results of the 2008 survey "paint a troubling picture of our future politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals."
In this second part of the series, Dan Wooldridge tells the story of the second billionaire who, too, lost his legacy. Out of this story he pulls out a lesson on leaving a legacy in the business you have created.
Thomas Friedman speaks to a network associated with Claremont McKenna College on the thesis of a flat world. Dan Wooldridge records his impressions of the speech as well as some implications for professional and personal development.
Nadira Hira is the author of The Gig - a blog on Fortune's website that discusses issues relevant to Gen Y. The Gig offers advice to young workers as well as insight into young colleagues.
Dan Wooldridge calls parents, employers, educators, and church leaders to wake up to the rapid global changes happening in today's flat world.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on the widespread impact of the life of a single man.
The younger generation use technology more than any previous generation, they use it differently, and how they are using it is generating remarkable changes in society and business. By Dan Wooldridge.
Every August, the Education Department at Wisconsin’s Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind the school’s faculty — and the rest of us — what the world looks like for the incoming freshman class.
Teen Rags Are So Five Years Ago and So What's Next
When Kids Sneeze, Advertisers Catch Cold (and Media Companies Die of Pneumonia)
Teen People Magazine ads slipped 4.6% in 2005 and 14.4% in the first half of 2006, while 2005 revenues at TeenPeople.com sextupled over 2004. It's no wonder they abandoned the magazine business (and no guarantee of success on the web).
On the first day of school my girlfriend asked her new 4th grade class if they were nervous about meeting her and they answered "no." A little surprised, she asked them why not.
Dan Wooldridge explores the implications of new technologies for communication: IM, SMS, and RSS replacing email.
An open letter from Jim Hancock and Rich Van Pelt in the wake of the murders at Virginia Tech.
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The Scriptures communicate significantly about family wealth and capital, an idea largely lost in Christian teaching today.
The eighth annual Beloit College Mindset List notes that most college freshmen in the fall of 2006 were born in 1988. There's a lot they take for granted and a lot they don't. Understanding that makes a difference in how we communicate.
More media disruption: Johnson&Johnson is holding it's $500 million annual ad budget and Coca Cola it's $190 million budget out of the 2006 television network upfront buys.
What internet space logged more page views in August (9.4 billion) than Google? That would be MySpace.com -- the upstart web company that is part Friendster, part Blogger, part MP3.com, part craigslist.
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Ron Magnus got a next generation wish list for emerging business leaders.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns: The Coming Generational Storm
What You Need to Know About America's Economic Future
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Demographics drive economic trends. By 2030 the population 65+ years old will double to 19.4% with 2 workers to support a senior citizen versus 16 today. How will we prepare for this storm as businesses?
Internet Retailer cites a Jupiter Research report that the number of Americans 65 and above who use the internet is accelerating -- reaching 11.5 million in 2005 on the way to 20.1 million projected for 2010
the 2005 Beloit College Mindset LIst reminds us what this year's class of college freshmen grew up knowing about the world.
Michael Finch writes: "I have ceaselessly heard how important my generation is to the future of our country, and the solution of many people is teaching us as many marketable skills and tricks-of-the-trade as they can to prepare us for the future. But if you really want to give your offspring something of worth, we need more than merely a way of surviving, we need to learn how to truly live." Fortunately, Michael has an idea about how we can help with that.
For all of us, everything passes through the filter of our worldview -- wherever it came from, however carefully or carelessly it may be constructed and for whatever it's worth...
Text messaging isn't the Next Big Thing If you're not already texting, it's simply the next thing.
Useful information about workers in the pipeline, courtesy of the Beloit College Mindset List.
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