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Is Entrepreneurship The New Degree?
Tweet I saw this clip of Alan Patricof and started wondering how the increase in entrepreneurship will influence the job market and hiring in the future. Historically… well a century ago… building a business was the norm for most people to earn a living. Granted the businesses were different, but earning a living was a family affair or that of a small group of people building a small company (a blacksmith for example). That isn’t to say that higher education didn’t exist, it just wasn’t the norm for most people. It wasn’t really required as anyone could build a great business and those that built great businesses were known as good people to work with. I wondered as Alan talked about all of the incubators and the startup fever that has taken … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Startups
Learning From The Best or The Rest?
Tweet Another good interview over on Vimeo with Howard Marks… Watching this and so many other videos from experts got me thinking about how we usually approach learning. The norm is that we all go to school with some good and some bad teachers. We learn the basics and later select what to do with our lives. An increasing number of us in the US and in the World are making the decision to go get a Higher Education. What is interesting though is that those higher education instructors are usually mediocre at best. Even the great universities are not always filled with The Best instructors available. What impact does that have? If most of the people in society that have higher education degrees are being taught by a pool of mediocre … Read entire article »
Traveling and Parenting
Tweet I have been on the road a lot more lately and I found myself the other day suddenly zoomed all the way back home with the help of text messaging and instant messaging. I was pleasantly working on some emails and out of the blue I started to receive text messages from my kids. First one, then the other, then the IM from my wife popped up. Here I was trying to stay focused on the work I was doing and I was pulled hundreds of miles away into Seattle responding to the kids, discussing with my wife the right approach to take, checking on the status of their grades online. Then diving into my lecture on responsibility in a few 140 character responses… it was only a matter of 10-15min… … Read entire article »
Filed under: career
