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April 11, 2012

Intel Releases Rugged Education Tablet

April 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 11APR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/04/10/intel-studybook/ The Intel studybook is built to be both a rigorous education tool and a sturdy playmate. It comes loaded with Intel’s Learning Series software, including an interactive eread...

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March 31, 2012

How leaders kill meaning at work

March 31, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 31MAR2012 from http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Governance/Leadership/How_leaders_kill_meani... Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four av...

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March 27, 2012

Leadership Charisma versus Personal Charm

March 27, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://www.inc.com/brian-evje/five-steps-to-better-leadership-charisma.html Leadership charisma and personal charisma are very different things. They both involve the same kinds of personal attributes--the ability to proje...

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January 18, 2012

Dance vs Powerpoint

January 18, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 18JAN2012 from http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_p... Dance can explain complex ideas better than incomplete sentences with bad grammar

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January 11, 2012

Learning Analytics

January 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 11JAN2012 from http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/sections/learning-analytics/ Learning analytics promises to harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and t...

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December 16, 2011

Cornell’s Bid for NY City Campus Gains

December 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 16DEC2011 from http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/stanford-drops-bid-to-build-high... New York City’s contest to build a science graduate school took a startling turn on Friday, as Stanford University bowed out of the competiti...

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December 15, 2011

OECD Global Perspectives on Education

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com/2011/12/education-does-not-equal-skill... ...What about the “soft” skills that so many students report are not developed in traditional school settings: clear communication skills, em...

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December 15, 2011

Connecting Mobile Phones to the Classroom

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40701&Cr=information+technol... With mobile telephone access reaching over five billion of the world’s population, the United Nations educational agency today announced the laun...

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December 14, 2011

Global Student Science & Technology Outlook

December 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14DEC2011 from http://tinyurl.com/c4fe4bk From the Executive Summary: How many kids are interested in pursing a career in STEM? Just about half are. The least interest in in Japan. The highest interest is in India and Mexico, with about ...

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December 13, 2011

Social, Local and Mobile Tech in Schools

December 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 13DEC2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/12/01/education-social-mobile/?utm_campaign=Feed:%20Mashable%20%28Mashable%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&WT.mc_id=obinsite Troy Williams is Vice President and General Manager of Macmilla...

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December 12, 2011

YouTube for Schools

December 12, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 13DEC2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/12/12/youtube-for-schools/ YouTube is launching a brand new tool to help teachers and students get their learn on. “YouTube for Schools” is a portal that helps curate education materials and videos...

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November 22, 2011

Best Practice Award by HR Community

November 22, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 23NOV2011 from http://logisticsweek.com/news/2011/11/ceva-in-italy-awarded-with-best-practic... CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading supply chain companies, has been presented with the Best Practice Award for Recruitment and Select...

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November 02, 2011

The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling

November 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 02NOV2011 from http://www.worklifepolicy.org/index.php/section/research_pubs by Sylvia Ann Hewlett , with Kerrie Peraino, Laura Sherbin, and Karen Sumberg [report can be purchased at this site] Women aren't making it to the top. Despite ...

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November 02, 2011

Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets

November 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 02NOV2011 fromhttp://www.worklifepolicy.org/index.php/section/research_pubs#374 ...Why Women Are the Solution by Sylvia Ann Hewlett & Ripa Rashid (report can be purchased at this site) With rolling debt crises blasting Western economies ...

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November 02, 2011

Center for Work-Life Policy

November 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 02NOV2011 from http://www.worklifepolicy.org/ The Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP), a non-profit "think tank" based in New York City, has emerged as a thought leader in diversity and talent management, driving ground breaking research ...

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October 31, 2011

Concurrent Collaboration in Science

October 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 31OCT2011 from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088.html ...experiments in networked science that are now being done to study everything from galaxies to dinosaurs. These projects use online tools as ...

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October 26, 2011

A Different Kind of Sports Star in Business

October 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 26OCT2011 from http://www.lane4performance.com/Sports-Stars-in-Business.htm Adrian Moorhouse is interviewed by Darcy Lambton for Sports Stars in Business (Reuters TV) [The discussion of personal transformation is the most interesting par...

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October 26, 2011

Values are Vital to Overall Success

October 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 26OCT2011 from http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice/clinical-specialisms/management/... 7 October, 2011 | By Mark Richardson (http://www.lane4performance.com) Values can easily be overlooked but both individuals and organisations...

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October 18, 2011

Teresa Amabile at TEDx in Atlanta

October 18, 2011/ Gary Riccio

http://bit.ly/XSbuK In this talk, Amabile "tried to communicate a passionate message about improving everyday work life - and lifting performance - in organizations everywhere."

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October 05, 2011

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

October 05, 2011/ Gary Riccio

http://www.apple.com/ Talent defined!

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