November, 2012

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Education, Not Guns and Bombs, Creates The Future

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Other people around the world pray for what we take for granted. From the article: “As the recent Taliban assassination attempt on Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani champion of girls’ education, shows: The Taliban are most scared of books, not bombs. Establishing an educational infrastructure in Afghanistan is the most cost effective long-term strategy for grassroots [.].

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A Seat at the Grownups Table

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The short history of the training or education department within corporate organizations is an interesting mirror of the shift in economic paradigms from the Industrial Economy to the Knowledge Economy. These departments have moved from the operational level as cost centers to profit centers with their own “C” level leadership that in many cases reports [.].

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Into The Age of the Smart Things

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It’s almost a New Year – 2013 – and already the Next Big Thing is upon us. Actually that’s ironic since the Next Big Thing is all about things, Smart Things. Refrigerators that scan bar codes and tell us what we have, which items we need, send shopping lists to our networked printers and suggest [.

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