Get ready for the coming employment roller coaster — Cloud Computing News. Six strong economic winds. What if Robert J. Gordon is correct? What if one of the heavyweights of the U.S. economics profession has it right about the economic future of his country? If he is right, forget the campaign promises and airy assumptions of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And if the analysis is proven out, Canadians should get ready for a tougher future as a country whose economy will always be tied to that of the United States.
Prof. Call him a pessimist, or more accurately, a realist. There were massive leaps in technologies and stunning innovations in the past that propelled increases in growth of incomes. In the past eight years, 2004 to 2012, labour productivity has returned to the level of 1972-1992. If big productivity gains are hard to find, growth will putter along at slow rates. First, the “demographic dividend” has gone into reverse. Second, educational attainment in the U.S. plateaued 20 years ago. Third, inequality is rising. Sixth, households and governments are substantially in debt. The Visionary's Lament. Mobile phone credit instead of bread? For many Kenyans, a real dilemma | Promoting Information and Communications for Development (IC4D)
What would you give up to continue using your mobile phone? For most of the six billion mobile subscribers around the world, the sacrifice might be measured in terms of a marginal loss of privacy, or of time. But in Kenya, where mobile handsets are widely used among base of the pyramid (BOP) users living under the poverty line, the sacrifice might cut deeper, as highlighted in a recent article in The Economist.
A new infoDev study, carried out by iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa among 800 mobile users in six locations across Kenya1 living on less than US$2.50 per day, found that at least 20 per cent of respondents felt it was necessary to make real sacrifices to recharge their mobile credit. In the majority of cases (>80 per cent), that meant buying less food, at least once a week. New clothes, bus fares, utility bills and even soap were sometimes sacrificed to sustain the all-powerful mobile phone. Source: iHub Research References.
Oprah Winfrey: Developing Spiritual Muscle. A week ago, many of you started our 21-Day Meditation Challenge with my friend, spiritual wisdom teacher Deepak Chopra. With 14 days to go, I want to encourage you to stay with it. My first attempts years ago were start-and-stop, and I kept thinking, "I must be doing this wrong, 'cause my thoughts are speeding up rather than slowing down. " "Let's meditate" felt like an invitation for my mind to go whirly-dirly. The chatter and thoughts were incessant; the more I tried to concentrate on a mantra or my breath, the louder and crazier the thoughts. Like CRAY-CRAY crazy (flying elephants and birds with toes, to name a few). That happened every time for about the first week. When I stopped fighting the thoughts -- let them be, come and go, didn't resist, and didn't TRY to do anything or have any expectation -- it gradually got easier.
I've since learned that the more stressed we are, the more forceful the chatter. My life is better when I get still regularly. Why programmatic buying doesn't kill creativity. In this season of politics and all kinds of promises about jobs, I'd like to shift the conversation. I'd like to talk about the promise of your job. There is a whole world of creativity and innovation available to media planners and buyers.
It entails proactive involvement in the reason we all work in this business, which is the customer and his or her interaction with content. You took this job more to hit "send" than "enter. " Although I represent a company that focuses on algorithms and advertising technology, my focus here is on creativity. Be a planner: Machine-buying has swung the pendulum toward the buyer side of the planner-buyer continuum. Learn: This business hardly lacks analysis and information. Create case studies: If something different and successful happens at an agency, it often doesn't get out of the cubicle farm. To sum up, the promise of your job is what you make it. Penry Price is the president of Media6Degrees.
Finding Inflection Points For Innovation. Your organization’s success at innovation defines you as a leader. Learn to drive your innovation by the inflection points you find or create, and you will soon master the three simple innovation moves that drive market success. An inflection point is a game change that shifts circumstances decisively.
They can be either negative, indicating a decline in market success, or positive, signifying a rise. Two negative inflection points can be leveraged to advantage, if met with wise leadership. The Vertical Drop occurs when a downward fall levels off temporarily and then falls decisively. A Step Down takes place when a shallow downward course drops precipitously and then returns to a shallow but persistent decline. Positive inflection points are pleasanter to negotiate. But these too can present challenges. When you learn to recognize inflection points, you start to see the world in a different way. One of my CEO clients knew his profits were tanking. Negative Thoughts? Put Them to Good Use.
Daily affirmations, appreciation, and a generally positive outlook are the usual prescriptions for success, according to a small army of self-help experts. Bah humbug! Where does that leave the significant proportion of the population that naturally tends towards a darker frame of mind? If you're an inveterate worrier or bit of a pessimist are you out of luck when it comes to success? Not at all, according to University of California at Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, which studies happiness and well-being. "A growing body of research suggests that negative thinking, if strategically pursued, has a role to play in happiness, too," reports Oliver Burkeman in the Center's newsletter. Pessimism Has Its Place No doubt you've been told to visualize what you hope to achieve by some smiley (and perhaps irritating) self-help type.
"Negative visualization can be an excellent antidote to anxiety. Ditch Your Goals Goals are great, right? Positive Thinking Can Backfire What works instead? Grow America's Unusual Approach to Spurring New Ventures and Creating Jobs. Alan Hall, standing in striped suit, at a Grow America competition. Start The adventure of new ventures. When Alan Hall saw a hardworking neighbor fall asleep at a meeting, he knew something was wrong. The man, Mr. Hot or not? How speed daters decide. For speed daters, first impressions are everything. But it’s more than just whether someone is hot or not. “Psychologists have known for some time that people can often make very rapid judgments about others based on limited information, such as appearance,” says John O’Doherty, professor of psychology at Caltech.
“However, very little has been known about how this might work in real social interactions with real consequences—such as when making decisions about whether to date someone or not. And almost nothing is known about how this type of rapid judgment is made by the brain.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Fotolia. Jill Bolte Taylor: 10 Talks on Human Nature. Jill Bolte Taylor wowed almost 10 million viewers with her talk “Stroke of Insight.” So which talks move her? Taylor explains, “I love talks that contribute to the overall well-being of who we are as humanity — that deal with how we can explore ourselves as individuals, as well as people in relationship with one another, and then ultimately, how we relate ourselves to the sustainability of this beautiful planet.
And, of course, I always love interesting science told well in story form.” Hedy Schleifer: The power of connection Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk" Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability Brené Brown: Listening to shame Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my body Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness — from the inside Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all. 7 Steps To Finding Your 'Passion' - The Secret Ingredient To Success. True happiness and success comes when you do what you are most passionate about! One of the biggest things that most of us lack is passion. Ask any successful person, entrepreneur, millionaire and they will all tell you the same thing; you must be passionate about what you do! A recent survey shows that 75% of the population do not know what their true passion is.
Perhaps this is why there is so much unhappiness in our society for to be truly happy, you have to really love and be passionate about what you do. Here is a list of 7 things you need to ask and answer for yourself to help you find and understand what you are passionate about. What puts a smile on your face? Following what makes you truly happy is a wonderful way to figuring out what you were put on Earth for. What do you find easy? What we find easy for us to do, will be related to what we are passionate about. What sparks your creativity? What would you do for free? What do you like to talk about? (Images) 25 Exclusive & One Of A Kind Inspirational Picture Quotes. Home > Quotes > (Images) 25 One Of A Kind Inspirational Picture Quotes By Joel Brown on May 1, 2012 Today we’d love to share with you, 25 exclusive motivational and inspirational picture quotes created exclusively by addicted2success.com. Please feel free to share these with your friends and family.
Thanks! Image above Photographed by: Martin Neuhof (Update) Bonus: 2 New Picture Quotes Source: IamAddicted2Success Tumblr About The Author: Joel Brown Joel Brown is the CEO and Founder of Addicted2Success.com. What is 'Made In America' Worth? Think of the label "Made in America. " What brand images come to mind? Odds are, you've conjured up a picture of one of two scenes. First, there's that rugged, sturdy (if underappreciated), no-frills, American quality. It's the stuff of Chrysler Automotive's much-praised "Imported from Detroit" ad, and Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA. " The other Made-in-America vision embraces an artisanal, moral, locavore sensibility. If one of these images is all that comes to mind, though, recent research and certain branding experts suggest that you're selling "Made in America" short. International perceptions of "Made in America," are rooted in global perceptions of the country itself--and that news is surprisingly favorable for domestic manufacturers.
"The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy," Anholt said in a press release. "American manufacturers have a reputation for getting it right the first time," Greenblatt says. The 5 R's For Building Lifelong Relationships With Employees. Understanding the ‘boregasm’: Boredom is a state of stress, researchers say. If you are reading this, odds are you are not bored. At this moment, your attention is actively engaged. I can’t say for how long but I know that once you lose interest, you will blame me: this article is dull, this writer is boring. But in trying to understand this universal feeling, researchers are increasingly asking: What does your boredom say about you? “Kids have a term for it, ‘Boregasm,’ where you’re hit with a 1,000 pounds of boredom at once,’’ says Albert Nerenberg, a Montreal-based filmmaker who just released a documentary about boredom.
“For many years, [I and a film crew] did these satires of politics where we’d go into real situations with fake actors. We wouldn’t be able to do our stuff until the end. Theories have been tested and connections have been made: Bored people don’t live as long. “We all experience it, but we just dismiss it as something that is relatively trivial,” says Mark Fenske, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph. Mr. In Hard Times, It's Even More Important To Be Generous. The Legal Job Market IS as Bad as It Seems. Following up on my prior post on the dearth of employment for lawyers, please fix your attention on the following article.
The Washington Post recently published a very good article on this same problem, focusing on the numbers associated with law school growth until 2020, and questioning the decision of people to attend law school if it’s not one of the elite institutions. Here are a few numbers from the article: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts 73,600 new lawyer jobs from 2010 to 2020, but after just three years, 132,757 new lawyers have been minted. Georgetown’s law school is the largest in the country, with current enrollment at 2,216. In 2010, law school graduates took on approximately $3.6 billion in loans. Nine months after graduation, only 20.5 percent of 2011 graduates of the University of the District of Columbia’s law school were employed in full-time jobs requiring a J.D. There’s no doubt this continues to be a big problem.
(photo: Shutterstock: 99873665) Sir Richard Branson: Business Is All About Details. Sir Audacity himself: "Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them. " Sir Richard Branson talks about entrepreneurial audacity--his own and that of his "great friends," Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. "If you set seemingly impossible challenges," says Sir Richard Branson, "you make what people believed impossible possible.
" Unless you get thousands of tiny details right when you launch a new business, you'll have nothing. Rarely does Sir Richard Branson start a business just because he thinks he's going to make money out of it. Sir Richard Branson put a firewall between each Virgin company so that--if something goes wrong at one--it won't take down another. In some cases--like Branson's space ship company Virgin Galactic--helpful regulators can make new business ideas possible. How Sir Richard Branson plans to bring down the $200,000-per-ticket price to bring passengers to space.
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