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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Leading a small group discussion?Here are some elements to help you organize your discussion questions taken from my Your Unfinished Business (available as paperback and Kindle) study guides. They give you different ways to help participants tackle the discussion...
Leading a small group Bible or book study?Here are some tips from my Your Unfinished Business (available as paperback and Kindle) study guides.What’s said in the small group stays in the small group. Sharing personal thoughts can be an experience in...
Soft Skills: Are Your Employees Versed in the Humanities?
Via Build: when Norman Augustine, longtime chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, insists that liberal-arts deficiencies are putting the United States at a strategic disadvantage, corporate America takes notice. In June, Augustine added his name and endorsement to The...
The Childless City
Via Instapundit and City Journal: …we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the...
The Childless City
Via Instapundit and City Journal: …we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the...
The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership
Via Bloomberg: The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data.… The simple answer is to blame consumers, who shouldn’t use mobile phones, credit cards,...
The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership
Via Bloomberg: The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data.… The simple answer is to blame consumers, who shouldn’t use mobile phones, credit cards,...
How low-paid workers at ‘click farms’ create appearance of online popularity
Via Business Insider: Click farms have become a growing challenge for companies which rely on social media measurements – meant to indicate approval by real users – to estimate the popularity of their products. For the workers, though, it is miserable work, sitting at...