Get your brain in motion
All of the great leaders had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership – John Kenneth Galbraith (economist and diplomat, 1908-2006)
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“Is an MBA worth the cost?” is the challenging question Jessica Stillman brightly addresses in “5 lessons you learn your first year at Harvard Business School”, extensively reviewing a post by Ellen Chisa, Harvard Business School student, who singles out the main lessons from each of the ten core classes.
Variables of expected return on investment largely depend on individual criteria, as successful business people have both advocated and renounced the degree. While going through her bright analysis, a prospective student may eventually make up her mind on whether to continue dreaming about Boston or not.
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of October the selected quotation is by Alvin Toffler (b. 1928) – American writer and futurist known for his works discussing the digital, communications and corporate revolutions arising from technological innovation.
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The Roman philosopher Epictetus once said, “Books are the training weights of the mind”.
Reading is an exercise that enriches the way we think, feel, and behave. Reading makes it possible to reach a new understanding about ourselves and the world and to expand our knowledge.
In this article, Paul Jun draws up a subjective list of the books he feels are timeless and helpful in both our personal and professional endeavors. Actually reading reflects a willingness to learn and change minds, to be open to new ideas and concepts that may indeed bolster both personal and professional endeavors.
Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy – Alexandre Dumas (1844)
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Does eLearning kill creativity and make traditional universities disappear? Or should we start to view online education and its advantages as inevitable?
Stanford professor Daphne Koller is making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), an innovative model for online learning. By doing this, she is enticing top universities to put their courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.
She believes that a new model—in which information is given online and classrooms are used for interactive experiential learning rather than for lecturing—could help to improve education.
Discover Lonsdale’s approach in her TED talk.
According to Lolly Daskal (), to stay on top you need to keep innovating.
These 7 habits will help you:
1) Constantly connect the dots, in order to gain new insight and see relationships that were invisible before;
2) Commit to asking questions, by asking new questions you get new perspective;
3) Actively try new things, the real innovation is not in seeking new horizons but seeing the horizon in a new light;
4) Find points of intersection with Others, for ideas to germinate a diverse set of perspectives, thinkers, questioners, and doers is required;
5) Have a sense of purpose, great innovators are powered by their passion and use it as a sense of purpose;
6) Cross-pollinate ideas, creativity happens when two things collide to create a whole new idea;
7) Make innovation a daily routine, if you want to become a master of anything, it takes discipline and commitment;
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better.
For the month of September the selected quotation is by Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)- the French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
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