Last night, I pulled up the local news website to check the weather and came across a news article that our state government is considering a move to let the gas companies come in and start fracking. Fracking stands for “hydraulic fracturing” and is a process to extract fossil fuels from beneath the earth. For… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Business
Is news overrated?
I have another point paper due this week where I have to write up an outline and a discussion about an article in The Wall Street Journal, and I got to thinking. (No, not about my rant about being buried in paper copies.) I’ve been reading it for a few weeks now and I’m just… Continue Reading
Teamwork is not just a buzzword in The Forbidden Kingdom
Teamwork is a huge buzzword in many corporations today. Uniqueness and individuality are often displaced or even scorned. People who are nonconformists are “not team players” and everything spirals downward from there. Once it starts getting quantified and measured, it’s entirely lost it’s meaning. Below is my version of teamwork: Video by forbiddenkingdom . This… Continue Reading
Corporations want Linchpins?
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin, this weekend and I’ve mostly been enjoying it. A linchpin is an indispensable, creative, artistic, original thinker, who isn’t willing to follow the rules. Supposedly, corporations want linchpins. I disagree. I’m about two thirds through the book, and this concept of corporations wanting linchpins is really the only… Continue Reading
So for the next episode of Google prison break….
I’ve been reading this book, Escape from Cubicle Nation, by Pamela Slim, and I also subscribe to her blog by the same name. She helps people get away from corporate jobs and start businesses of their own. Today, she posted a video of the presentation she made to Google employees at the beginning of August… Continue Reading