Larry Smith is frustrated. He’s angry. He’s bewildered. The professor of economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada has spent his entire teaching career coaching students to find careers they love, but he still hears excuse after excuse for not following one’s passion. Smith channeled his emotions into an inspiring, passionate, and humorous TED talk: Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career.
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There is a lot of talk about innovation in today’s fast-paced, information-centric world. But behind the talk lies a few grand challenges to delivering the type of innovation that is truly transformational for a company or that will solve the world’s largest challenges. For starters, how do we begin the process of innovation? And how can we find the hidden gem of an idea that resides within an office cubicle or in some corner of the world? And finally, how can we leverage these ideas to truly innovate[...]
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For over two thousand years doctors would puncture their patients’ veins and let them bleed out in order to rid them of their diseases. Today we laugh at the practice of bloodletting.
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I don't normally comment on matters of executive compensation, but how could I resist shining the light on Duke Energy's latest move. Really??? Has our society become so disconnected from reality that we can just ignore something as ridiculous as compensating someone more than $40 million dollars for less than a full day's work? With corporations and their CEOs desperately trying to reestablish trust with their stakeholders and constituents, the ousting of CEO Bill Johnson after one day on the job[...]
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Money Wise Women
Recently I was deeply struck by a post called The Statute of Limitations on Regret, posted on the Get Rich Slowly blog. It was on the author’s reaction to a couple who was beating themselves up for the money mistakes they made. And now they are focused on just getting through the day, marking time and feeling depressed. Yikes.
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