Most American schools focus on academic curriculum and preparing students for a collegiate career, so much so that upper-tier schools are often colloquially called prep schools. And it’s not a bad goal. But should it be the only goal? While excelling in academia is important – American standardized test scores are, after all, falling to
Read More...While many of my blogs are about PeopleSoft and Business Intelligence, a personal passion of mine is support of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). At age 6, my youngest daughter Lauren was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, as soon as I realized, I started to research on how to reverse diabetes. It was a life
Read More...An astonishing 37% of hiring managers are using social networking sites to research applicants, with over 65% of the group using Facebook as their primary source. The days of doing a routine background check using CRB Direct on your criminal past or even credit history have been widened to include voyeurism into your daily life
Read More...Time for some off the cuff riffing here. ABC News with Diane Sawyer has had several segments on finding products that are made in America. I am all for it. This idea is something about which I feel passionate. We do not have to buy everything buy in America, just more. And not much more,
Read More...I do a lot of thinking about Amazon, because I feel it’s on the verge of massively disrupting Google and, on a much, much larger scale, retail as a whole. Today, let’s talk about retail. Here I mean retail across the board, save specialty stores (Apple, Bose, etc.) and emergency sundry retailers (pharmacies, some grocery
Read More...A Parable of Recommendations and Decisions So, how often do you really change the oil in your car, truck, or SUV? Do you follow manufacturers’ recommendations? You know, the last three cars I owned had completely different advice: one owner’s manual said every 6,000 miles, one said every 7,500 miles, and one has a snazzy
Read More...Jim Dalrymple over at The Loop posted what I’ve been thinking since Apple’s decisive victory over Samsung last week: Because it was so blatant in its copying, Samsung was the most obvious target and allowed Apple to set precedent for its patents. That was the precursor to going thermonuclear. Google says its not worried about
Read More...I’m not posting this because I think it’s amusing. I’m posting it because I think it’s powerful and because we don’t see enough of this anymore. The backstory: As a high school lacrosse team was waiting to board a flight to a Summer tournament, one athlete took it upon himself to sneak into the pre-board
Read More...Lisa Jansen, writing for CNBC.com: Companies with at least one woman on the board over the past six years show better average growth, with an average of 14 percent over the past six years compared to 10 percent for those with no female board representation. They also have a 4 percent higher return on equity,
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