TEDxUCLA – Jimmy Lizama – My Message is Bicycle
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Best TEDx Talk of 2011? The future of transportation & happiness.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/NUG8kITW1_M/547
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IBM “Think Friday”– How to Migrate the #99percent to 4 Day Work Week
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/DMC6A7fAknQ/541
Wow? Could it really be possible? Finally, organizations are understanding that THINKING is actually one of most valuable activities in existence? Yes, yes, yes, execution is everything; but as we’ve written for years, without the best IDEAS to execute upon, what have you got? Nothing! It takes both. Of course, anyone who has tried to implement technological or organizational change knows that human behavior and culture are the biggest blockades, by far. People will gnaw your fingers down to knuckles if you dare to ruffle their comfortable, however dysfunctional or redundant, routines. Maybe for the skeptic, “Think Friday” is also partly a genius way to tell middle muddle managers, bean counters, and HR #DefaultReality #StatusQuo control freaks that “we’re not really giving them time off …” — which isn’t a bad thing either, seeing as a 4 Day Work Week and guaranteed Basic Income are two immediate policy measures that could soak up the surplus Human Attention in our society and provide it the stable base required to take pure innovation to incredible new levels.
For those searching for how to adopt basic income, or how to pragmatically implement an immediate basic income guarantee, in 2008, two states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, looked into the feasibility of requiring a four-day work week in two legislative sessions. As the stock market executed it’s current head fake higher, enthusiasm may have waned. The reality of today’s labor situation should reanimate this interest, to say the least.
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5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup – GigaOM
http://gigaom.com/2010/01/17/5-myths-that-can-kill-a-startup/
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WSJ.com - For Older Workers, a Reluctant Retirement
http://digg.com/business_finance/WSJ_com_For_Older_Workers_a_Reluctant_Retirement
Although the U.S. labor market is showing improvements, conditions for older workers continue to deteriorate, as a number of workers ages 55 to 64 feel forced to retire before they are financially ready.
Nah, ya' think?
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