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Posts tagged ‘corporate America’
Jun 12
Charlie Hoehn’s “Recession Proof Graduate”
Unless you happen to have a trust fund and a lot of residual income, Recession Proof Graduate: Charlie Hoehn’s Guide to Getting Any Job Within a Year Out of College is a must read for everyone who is going to be working in today’s job market- not just college grads. This short & sweet eBook tells it like it is for the job seekers of today: You need more than Craigslist, the classified ads, and a generic resumee- unless you’re okay with your unemployment checks or landing a mediocre job with mediocre pay. Read more
Healthways Presents: “The Connected Consumer”
Healthways, who recently brought you the 2011 Healthways Well Being Summit, will be featuring another teleseminar on May 18, from 2 to 5 pm, EST. This time it is regarding “The Connected Consumer: Driving Engagement in Health and Well Being“.
Most health and well-being initiatives fail because they can’t effectively motivate and sustain connections with individuals. Using social technology, consumer- centric programming and behavioral insights, leading organizations are solving the engagement challenge.
Leave Your Mark on The World, Not Your Trash: Going Green for Earth Day
Going green is not only beneficial for the environment, but for you as an individual as well. It reduces clutter, can provide you tax deductions, save you tons of money, and help you to live a healthier, happier, more simple life. Here are some of my favorite quick and easy tips to GO GREEN for Earth Day, and every day. Read more
Do It Like Da Vinci: Learning & Living Like Leonardo
You don’t have to be a genius to think like one. Michael J. Gelb introduces the Seven Da Vincian Principles–seven essential elements of genius, named in Da Vinci’s native Italian, that any of us can develop on our own.
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
by Chris Hedges
Published on Monday, April 11, 2011 by TruthDig.com
A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point. The "No Child Left Behind" program, modeled on the “Texas Miracle,” is a fraud. It worked no better than our deregulated financial system. But when you shut out debate these dead ideas are self-perpetuating.
Passing bubble tests celebrates and rewards a peculiar form of analytical intelligence. This kind of intelligence is prized by money managers and corporations. They don’t want employees to ask uncomfortable questions or examine existing structures and assumptions. They want them to serve the system. These tests produce men and women who are just literate and numerate enough to perform basic functions and service jobs. The tests elevate those with the financial means to prepare for them. They reward those who obey the rules, memorize the formulas and pay deference to authority. Rebels, artists, independent thinkers, eccentrics and iconoclasts—those who march to the beat of their own drum—are weeded out.
