Ling- English
I carry mine everywhere and jot down EVERYTHING in it: ideas, meeting notes, phone call notes, appointments, etc. I also use it to outline and draft articles, correspondence, and any other writing I do. As things get done or transferred to permanent platforms, I cross them off. As all items
Teaching and Learning
A checklist as useful for those thinking about going to college as those already there.
Work and the workplace
These experts have some basic advice. Check e-mail messages once an hour, at most. Listening to soothing background music while studying may improve concentration. But other distractions — most songs with lyrics, instant messaging, television shows — hamper performance. Driving while talking on a cellphone, even with a hands-free headset,
leadership
Besides coach, he’s also a de facto dad. A builder of character. A shoulder on which to cry. And, when necessary, a kick in the pants. There is what you do in the position. And there is who you choose to be in the position. via Bloomberg.
PowerPoint
In my Business Communication class, I require students to give two (sometimes more) presentations using visuals... without words! Only graphs. This forces students not to depend on powerpoint as a script and to rediscover -I hope- the power of images. Logic+Emotion makes the point: Effective communication is everyone’s
feedback
1. Listen to what a critic is saying. 2. Don’t be defensive. 3. Don’t fire back by criticizing your critic. 4. Delay your reaction. 5. Explain honestly the reason for your actions. 6. Admit your mistakes. 7. Explain what you’ve learned. 8. Enjoy the fun of failure.
Business Environment
Books fly off shelves as library use soars http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090108/NEWS0107/901080426/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 The Santa Barbara Independent Libraries Busy in Faltering Economy http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jan/08/libraries-busy-faltering-economy/ The Public Library
Visuals
... until you clarify the parameters. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM]
Social networking
We don't take Facebook for granted the way our children do, with their unthinking postings on each others' walls, their casual use of the F-word on what is effectively a quasi-public forum, their postings of their own photographs in varying states of sobriety and decency.
Business Environment
She might have three selves, but she also has two different styles. The French one, which loves these abstract ideas of freedom and the future. And the American one, with its management clichés of teamwork and listening. The two make an odd mixture. Perhaps she herself is a miniature version
Teaching and Learning
Indexes and tables of contents provide a context, giving a broader snapshot of the field at a given time. And after consulting them, the researcher must make a considered decision to take the next step. By contrast, in online searches, the researcher tends to follow hyperlink to hyperlink, in a
Business Environment
I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that explains the national debt. It has been called the Inconvenient Truth of fiscal realities: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo] The CEPR disagrees with the documentary's numbers. David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, on 60