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Recent Study Uncovers Skills and Education Necessary in Modern Workforce

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article featured online by Talent Management magazine (New York, September 26, 2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * U.S. unemployment hovers at 9 percent, and [.].

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More on the Battle of Focus in an Information Overload Era – (with insight from McChrystal’s Team of Teams & Cal Newport’s Deep Work)

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In 2011 Americans took in five times as much information every day as they did in 1986—the equivalent of 175 newspapers. Where once an educated person might have assumed she was at least conversant with the relevant knowledge on a particular field of study, the explosion of information has rendered that assumption laughable.

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Redesigning Today’s Graduate Classroom

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Here is an excerpt of an article that caught my eye, written by Leonard Cassuto and recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 20, 2011).

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Mark W. Schaefer: An interview by Bob Morris

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Schaefer is author of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time (2011), Return On Influence (2012), and Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time (2013) as well as a globally-recognized educator, speaker, business consultant, and author. His [.].

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Poor Economics: A book review by Bob Morris

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Banerjee and Esther Duflo PublicAffairs/The Perseus Group (2011) How and why ideology, ignorance, and inertia have so effectively undermined efforts to reduce/eliminate global poverty I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it because I was curious [.].

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The best commencement address yet to be delivered: “Students Don’t Know Much About History”

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In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.”

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No Excuses: A book review by Bob Morris

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No Excuses: Take Responsibility for Your Own Success David Neenan with Eric Lucas Morgan James Publishing (2011) How to avoid becoming a sea squirt We cannot control or even influence much of what happens to us but we [begin italics] can [end italics] control how we respond to it.

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