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Social Media Responsibility | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: You make some great points – the best of which is being aware of how social media/networking impacts your family. According to a survey done recently the average person only has 2 close friends. I also love the Burke quote – one of my favorites…Thanks again for sharing Mike.

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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

million of the 53 million freelancers counted in the survey are “moonlighters” (people with full-time jobs doing independent work in their spare time). million and 34% is more than 31%, but the two surveys weren’t exactly counting the same people (moonlighters, for example, aren’t contingent workers). This new survey of 5,052 U.S.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Intellectual elitists are by-in-large braggarts that acquire knowledge (or feign possession thereof) for public acclaim and their own self-promotion. If you acquire knowledge, yet choose not to use it for the benefit of others then you’re not a leader, you’re self indulgent. are all critical to your success.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions. No doubt you are aware of the explosion of the market – some call it a movement – in handcrafted products. A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. And we were aware of it.

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How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education

Harvard Business Review

According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 Consider a recent Economist article featuring Bill Gates's educational poster child: Khan Academy , founded by Salman Khan in 2006. Students display much more enthusiasm when they can self-direct their learning paths.