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Salman Khan gave a great talk @2011 TIE Conference, he is really inspirational & a great & entertaining speaker.  I thoroughly enjoyed his talk & was inspired by his story & enthusiasm to reinvent education through his videos & software.  Salman is the founder & faculty of the Khan Academy a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world class education to anyone, anywhere.  It now consists of  [ Read More ]

The last couple of years have totally changed our attitudes to the words ‘trust in business‘.  Many businesses whom people automatically trusted, have fallen in our estimation.  Banks and financial institutions along with the car manufacturing industry proved that their business models were broken and damaged our trust.  The Dow Jones index even dropped 8% in 10 minutes during the week and altho it was restored quickly it now leaves  [ Read More ]

I was reading an NPR article titled ‘The Aging Brain Is Less Quick, But More Shrewd’ by Michelle Trudeau about older brains: “The area of the brain that showed the increases was the frontal lobe, the thinking brain, especially in areas that control decision making and working memory,” Small says. One interpretation of his findings, he says, is that with practice, a middle-age brain can very quickly alter its neuron-circuitry,  [ Read More ]

This is a guest post by Ellen Longo of Astro4Business Intersections: Business Success through Astrology Recently I came across a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) about opportunities for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in a downturn.  For those of us in small business, what they call M&A, we call buying or selling a business.   At my last “M&A” opportunity I made a fundamental mistake.  I want to share  [ Read More ]

There have been a few posts on the net this week about women entrepreneurs prompted from a New York Times article ‘Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley’ (Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley) by Claire Cain Miller which spoke about a woman Candace Fleming who failed to raise investment in Silicon Valley for her company Crimson Hexagon.  Another post tried for a more positive take on women in  [ Read More ]