“I knew you were going to do that!” writes Eric Siegel in his book “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die.” Did you know that you were being predicted?
The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful Graduates
Bill Gates 2.0
Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes interviewed Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. Today, Gates spends his time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He wants to rid the world of polio, tuberculosis, and malaria.
What would the world be like if, after people retired, they volunteered to help others?
Borrow Less Go to Community College
“The Red” is a video about the horrors of student debt. SALT developed the video to help students “borrow less, borrow smart, and repay well.” A great way to save money is to attend your local community college.
What are some other ways to save money on going to college?
The Organization of Your Dreams
The organization of your dreams is a company where individual differences are nurtured; information is not suppressed or spun; the company adds value to employees, rather than merely extracting it from them; the organization stands for something meaningful; the work itself is intrinsically rewarding; and there are no stupid rules.Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
Serendipity Days at Work
The more frequently you see and bump into a colleague, the more likely you are to eventually strike up a conversation. "If that person knows stuff you don't, that process can lead to information transfer."Dr. Owen-Smith, the lead author of the University of Michigan study
The Wall Street Journal reports, “In the last two years National Public Radio has held six Serendipity Days in which about 50 employees from different departments, including digital, engineering, HR and news, volunteer to come together and think of new ideas and projects over a two-day period.”
Do you have “Serendipity Days” at work?
Product Placement in The Great Gatsby
The picture's rollout has so far included a cosmetics collaboration with MAC; apparel by Prada and Brooks Brothers; a jewelry collection from Tiffany; a hosiery line by Fogal; product placement of Moet & Chandon; and co-branding with the iconic Plaza Hotel in New York.Misty Harris, Postmedia News
YouTube versus TV
YouTube has already defeated TV. . . One fact highly touted was that more 18- to 34-year-olds watch YouTube than any cable network.Eric Schmidt
Socialstructing
(Amplified individuals) are engaged in "socialstructing" — bypassing established institutions and processes for building new things, and instead working to create what they find missing in the world by communicating the need to their social networks, mobilizing whatever resources they have at their disposal, and pursuing solutions collaboratively.Marina Gorbis

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