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Myspace went kaput. Well, so did Lehman brothers. Companies come and go, what does it prove??
The question is not whether everyone is going to be an engineer or a manager (manage what exactly if there is no entrepreneurship to begin with?), it is rather whether can pursue one's OWN dream and work hard for it..It More
Soccer is certainly a sport and it requires great skill to be played well. International soccer players are great athletes. Unfortunately, soccer suffers from the critical drawback that the more skilled the players playing it, the more controlled the game is and the less interesting it is for the occasional More
You might not be an anti-Semite, but you are certainly doing a good impersonation of one. The term ghetto is a Jewish term. Referring to the ghetto as being 'close-minded' and filled with 'zealots' is strange. Jewish culture has traditionally been one of the most open and progressive cultures anywhere. If you More
Here we go again. This is another cheap shot from Henninger mimicking his colleague Bret Stephens. That what makes a good leader two incapable journalists. On one hand we have a wasteful spender and a war criminal in the blabber president who should only be compared with the men and women on death row. We also More
This pricing of professors needs to be extended to all the bureaucrats in colleges and universities. Much time is spent by a professor or his staff on pushing paper to meet inane requirements to get and/or maintain the research grants on which the University depends. Each staff member in finance, the Dean's More
This is a wonderful article, and brings many issues to the forefront of today's economy.
There's an old saying that you can have service, quality, or price (but only 2 of them, so pick the 2 you want). Since i am a small business myself (optometrist with an optical), i know that our service has to be outstanding More
@ Marianne Carlson
You've been getting some bad information.
Some of this varies by state, but in general, in order to teach in public school, a teacher needs to be state certified life coach, which requires a four year degree program, which includes study of all subjects for early childhood and elementary education, More
Obviously you and your doctor have not heard of netbooks and iPads. Heck, even the Au Bon Pain cafes here in Boston are using iPad for taking orders. I repeat my point again Richard, technology will make these soft skills list obsolete.
Here at MIT, Indian students often dazzle their teachers and cohort with More
One very simple way to show the difference between the effect of the recession on feedback from employees of private companies versus federal state and municpal employees, the public sector employees, would be to compare the numbers and percentages of public sector employees terminated or layed off during the More
I just put in a contract for a house for a cash sale, but still had an performance appraisal methods. The appraiser asked, after being told that it was a cash sale, 'what did you pay for it?' I declined to answer, but the appraisal came in remarkable close to asking price. Hmm. To the appraisers out there, Why More