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Mentors - your aides in career navigation

Mentors - your aides in life (and career) navigation

a 10 percent improvement means that you’re basically doing the same thing as everybody else. You probably won’t fail spectacularly, but you are guaranteed not to succeed wildly.

the curse of 10%

Larry Page succinctly described, in the above quote, the 10% growth syndrome that companies get into and…

Tying it all together — the end game of present day silicon valley (circa — October 2010)

As silicon valley goes about disrupting one industry after another, it has at this point in time, laid it’s sights on the combined fuzz of commerce, social networks, mobility…

Making big decisions

its not about choosing the defaults

teachers will soon be celebrities

That technology is changing the way we think of education is a fact that few can deny, especially in 2012. As we look ahead 10 years from now, one potential implication of the use of technology and the break-down of traditional institutions of learning, such as…

Ralph Waldo Emerson on principles versus methods

“As to methods: there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.

the man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

the man who tries methods, ignoring…