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Chip R. Bell: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

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Bob''s blog entries Accenture Adult Leadership Adult Training Advanced Management Journal Albert Einstein Allstate Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Cadillac Caterpillar Chip R. He has served as consultant, trainer, or speaker to such major organizations […].

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“For most of U.S. history, most people had a slow and steady wind at their back” – Where Will the Jobs Be?

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Our efforts might be more fruitfully focused on getting Maddie the education she needs for a better shot at a decent living in the years to come. Subsidized job-training programs […]. It’s hard to imagine what set of circumstances would reverse recent trends and bring large numbers of jobs for unskilled laborers back to the U.S.

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Lifelong Learning – Thinking About Why College, and Lifelong, Ongoing Learning, Really Matter

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These experiences could be formal (training, counseling, tutoring, mentorship, apprenticeship, higher education, etc.) From Wikipedia: Lifelong learning is the continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout the life of an individual. It occurs through experiences encountered in the course of a lifetime.

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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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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/14/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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