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Child-friendly Ways to Make Money - 0 views

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    Entrepreneurship starts young! Kids today are smart enough to think of various creative ways to make money while still in school. Any kid with enough talent, creativity and entrepreneurial skills can easily start earning money. There are various ways to earn money while still being in school and here are some of them. Read more http://www.make-lots-of-money.com/child-friendly-ways-make-money-2/
David Ellena

5 ways to be a leader who gets it | @thehrgoddess SmartBlogs - 0 views

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    Are you a leader who "gets it"? Here are some ways to tell
David Ellena

7 Ways to Keep Others from Squeezing the Life Out of You - 0 views

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    Ways to tell if you are letting people squeeze the life out of you 
David Ellena

Catch People Doing Something Right - 4 Ways to Build Workplace Morale | - 0 views

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    Some ways to help improve morale in your building 
makemoney07

How to Make Money as a University Student - make-lots-of-money.com - 0 views

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    Studying in a university both has its up and downs. You might be on your way to getting a diploma but the road from high-school graduate to getting your degree is a tough one. Students have told horror stories of being so broke they've resorted to an everyday diet of instant ramen. While admittedly, instant ramen sounds good, here are a few ways for you to earn extra cash on the side so you can afford other things. Continue reading here http://www.make-lots-of-money.com/make-money-university-student/
Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
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    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
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    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
David Ellena

The Best Way for New Leaders to Build Trust - Jim Dougherty - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • I spent more than four hours  listening in to client support calls at the call center.  I shared headsets with many of the team, moving from desk to desk to speak to the reps. To say they were surprised is an understatement: Many CEOs never visit the call center, and virtually none do it their first afternoon on the job.
  • I made this my priority partly because I wanted to know what customers were saying—but also to make an internal statement.
  • Without trust, it is very unlikely you will learn the truth on what is really going on in that organization and in the market place. 
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  • Without trust, employees won’t level with you—at best, you’ll learn either non-truths or part truths.
  • The best way to start building trust to take the time and meet as many individual contributors as you can as soon as you can.
  • Many leaders see their role as directing and giving information, rather than gathering.  There is pressure to “come up with the answer” quickly or risk looking weak.  Too many new leaders believe they’re expected to know the answer without input or guidance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Doing this correctly takes time—but less than you might think.
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      I could be trusted with the truth..how powerful
  • Later on my first day at Intralinks, I began arranging meetings with individual contributors. That’s where my learning really began. Over the next few weeks I met with over 60 individual contributors. Not only did I learn a lot, but I convinced them that I cared what they thought and could be trusted with the truth.
  • Instead of just laying this out in an all-hands meeting, I began laying out the plan in one-on-one meetings in which I talked about how each individual’s feedback had helped guide my thinking.
  • None of this could have happened without building the trust of the team. New leaders must remember that many of the best insights on how to fix a company lie with employees further down the org chart. Creating a trusting, honest dialogue with these key personnel should be every new leader’s top priority.
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    Some great advice for new leaders about earning trust
David Ellena

5 ways to show empathy as a leader SmartBlogs - 0 views

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    Some ways to really connect with your employees
David Ellena

How Curiosity Cultivates Creativity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

  • If an idea is the seed of strategy, experience is the seed of an idea.
  • This is an argument for varied experience--a predictor of creativity--but it is also an argument for mindfulness.
  • Many people look, he said, but few people see--and that mindful seeing is the foundation of direct experience, itself the foundation of direct knowledge.
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  • His emphasis on observation was so great that he would reconceive the way we perceive perception.
  • That is the power of curiosity and of observation: under examination even the most respected received wisdom can give way.
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    Creativity and observation..keys to innovation.
David Ellena

LeadLearner: Leadership Lessons from a Super Bowl Sideshow - 0 views

  • In Times of Success  Cocky leaders use the word, me, to describe the reason for the team's success.
  • Confident leaders see no use in the word, me, to describe reasons for success.
  • You will hear constant praise for the team as they describe how everyone worked together to make it happen. You will hear no overtones of 'Me' because the leader will be constantly praising the strengths and contributions of every member that played an integral part of the team's success. 
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  • In Times of Failure
  • The cocky leader will be extremely disappointed and moderately immature. His anger, aggravation, and frustration will reveal itself in the way that he describes the team's failure.
  • The confident leader will acknowledge the fact that 'we' did not win the game; however, the leader will not put the blame on 'we' but on 'me'.
  • Finally, cocky leaders never consider using their words to bring people together as their first priority. Their insecurity won't allow that. However, confident leaders constantly find ways to put their team in the best position to win the game. When they win, the leader gives the team credit for doing so. And when the team loses, the leader takes full blame for not putting the team in the best position to win.
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    Leadership lessons from the Super Bowl
David Ellena

Life of an Educator: 6 ways to avoid responding 'defensively' - 0 views

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    Great tips on dealing w/difficult people/situations
David Ellena

Lessons from an award-winning leader: 7 ways to improve workplace morale and employee e... - 0 views

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    Here are some ideas for improving staff morale
Don Lourcey

Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review - 4 views

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    Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership. Notice these featured points: Bring people together who aren't connected, Design new business models by combining players and resources in new ways, Persevere with an idea until you see success, Don't rely on credentials, but on the power of your ideas, Persuade others to see the possibility of your ideas and join you in the pursuit, Empower others to also make change. Think on these questions: (1) Why are should these features define the essence of leadership in your schooling organization,and (2) how will you not only lead change, but how will you specifically make these critical features relevant to the work you are doing to lead?
Helen Otway

Ten Ways to be a Better Leader of Change - 8 views

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    Although the simplicity of this article can be deceiving, it echos the phrase I've heard my mentor use many times before "leaderhsip comes down to how you treat people." I strive to live up to her words each day as I am met daily with the changes in public education.
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