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Current blog layout… soon to be, the old layout
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Good times. Dec 2012
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Whatever you don’t plan for will be lost, stolen or wastedThe young adult continually learning" - Mona Baptist Church YAF - Friday August 10, 2012 Wayne Henry
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Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional. #lifequoteSharon Edwards YAF Apr 5, 2013
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Look at the size of this thing!
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The 8 Nations of Innovation
…not geographic nations, they are imagination
- Termination - what do i need to stop doing
- Collaboration / Coordination - how do we do it faster, larger, cheaper with a team
- Combination - What could we mix together to create something new
- Elimination - what part could we take out to make it simpler
- Reincarnation - what has died that we can bring back to life in a new form
- Rejuvenation - how could we change the purpose or motivation for doing it. not what but why
- Elimination - How can we look at this in a new light
- Fascination - How could we make it more interesting, appealing, attractive, mesmerizing
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I can spot a winner when I see one, and so far I have been right.
- 3,000+ views on Saturday night 28/07/12
- 12,000+ views on Sunday night 29/07/2012
- 16,000+ views on Monday Morning 30/07/2012
- 23,590 views on Wednesday 1/08/2012 6:13pm
- 34,314 views on Saturday 04/08/2012 9:48pm
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Bolt’s Legend Status
Should Bolt repeat his 100-meter victory from Beijing, he will become the second man to win consecutive Olympic titles in the event, after Carl Lewis (1984 and ’88). In the 200, Bolt has the opportunity to become the first in history to capture back-to-back gold medals.
“This Olympics can give me my legend status, so that’s my aim and what I hope to do,” he said. “I haven’t run in London for a long time. I think there will be great energy with the fans, and I feed off great energy.”
Four years ago in Beijing, Bolt attained his superstar status by blazing to three gold medals, all in dominating fashion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/sports/usain-bolt-can-cement-legacy-at-london-olympics.html
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FREE DOWNLOAD, Lecrae - Church Clothes. Click on the picture for the link to this new Lecrae Mixtape, it’s FIRE
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Love > Word = Noun + Verb - Lecrae
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Islandvibe. Holin a melli in the night. Get it…medi/meli?
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Finally, proof that business students are time wasters!
I have had this article drafted for the longest time. I have brought it up now to post it as I recently referred to it during a conversation. It it still relevant.
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It has always been debated, but proof?…that was far from coming. Now here it is! The Economist has highlighted an article pointing out that business students waste the most time ever at school (compared to other broad subject areas). At first, i wondered how i should feel: threatened, offended, or ambivalent; However I have decided to accept that there is some truth to what is being said, and business students need to wake up (the entire system for that matter)!. Here are the major points from The Economist, and the Original Article, after which I will highlight my comments.
Before you get the major points though it is interesting to note the following (also from the same article), about the field of business: 1 in every 5 degrees is for that field at the undergraduate level in the United States…Woa! (talk about saturated).
This is not a small corner of academe. The family of majors under the business umbrella—including finance, accounting, marketing, management and “general business"—accounts for just over 20 percent, or more than 325,000, of all bachelor’s degrees awarded annually in the United States, making it the most popular field of study.
Major points from the articles
- Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field
- Nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.
- business majors had the weakest gains during the first two years of college
- When business students take the GMAT, the entry examination for M.B.A. programs, they score lower than do students in every other major.
Interesting quoutes
IN MY day people who wanted an easy time at university studied geography or land management. Now, in the United States at least, the soft-option of choice is business studies. Business students of various sorts are the most numerous group on American campuses, accounting for 20%, or more than 325,000, of all bachelor degrees. They are also, according to a long article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, by far the idlest and most ignorant.
Three big problems
- Business programs also attract more than their share of students who approach college in purely instrumental terms: as a plausible path to a job, not out of curiosity about, say, Ronald Coase’s theory of the firm.
- "Business education has come to be defined in the minds of students as a place for developing elite social networks and getting access to corporate recruiters,”
- Second, in management and marketing, no strong consensus has emerged about what students ought to learn or how they ought to learn it.
- And third, with large student-faculty ratios and no lab equipment, business has historically been cheaper to operate than most departments. Cynics say many colleges are content.
Two big problems
What is the major reason why students in other major improved over time (state fields) vs why business students saw little improvement. What accounts for those gaps?
The two sociologists point to sheer time on task. Gains on the CLA closely parallel the amount of time students reported spending on homework. Another explanation is the heavy prevalence of group assignments in business courses: The more time students spent studying in groups, the weaker their gains in the kinds of skills the test measures.
Group assignments are a staple of education in management and marketing. In dorm lounges and library basements around the country, small cells of 20-year-olds are analyzing why a company has succeeded or failed (Drexel University); team-writing 15-page digital marketing plans (James Madison University); or preparing 45-minute PowerPoint presentations on one of the three primary functions of management (Tulane University).
What are your thoughts?
