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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

How the disappearance of the middle class is one of the reasons why members can't pay dues. We can't spend months debating about the usefulness of social media and then wonder why we aren't moving the needle on jobs and education. It's spreading to Indiana, Wisconsin and New York. Narcissism is not a business strategy.

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The Hourglass Blog: Innovation = Creativity x Execution

The Hourglass Blog

And he goes on to illustrate the "multipler effect" successful execution can have on innovation efforts: Heres why we worked on execution, as opposed to creativity: We surveyed thousands of executives in Fortune 500 companies to rate their companies innovation skills on a scale of one to 10, one being poor and 10 world class. Social Media.

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The Hourglass Blog: Generational Herd Mentalities

The Hourglass Blog

I went to the University of Wisconsin in the late 1980s. Need to take that Physics 201 class? Social Media. Why should Millennials be spared that difficulty and humiliation? Why should they be able to set their own rules and write their own tickets? Heres a quick story. And what about that foriegn language requirement?