7/15/2010
A little light for tonight - Soul Hang Out
A tribute to all the iight workers of the world!!! Enjoy!
GenY Careers Opportunities & Entrepreneurs | Worknow_Aotearoa_NZ
It had been a while since the game of generation bashing has had a look in but the floor is open again to generational commentary, stereotyping and general whinging following a research report on the values, attitudes, behaviors and demographic characteristics of American Gen Y | Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next
Born 1979 outside or upper end of the generational “age bracket” does nothing to change the fact that I identify most strongly with the Y Generation. While I can see in many friends my age, a stronger tendency to Gen X some of us never had the new generational “stereotypes” to qualify our actions.
Generation Y on Careers
I had to live my “traits” before they became widely touted indicators of our generation. My work career for instance in which I’ve had more than 10 jobs in the last 10 years. Inevitably, there were interviews in which I was asked to justify my job “hopping” to which my response involved learning, challenge, personal circumstance.
Now, in retrospect I can claim this as normal for an entire generation of people. No longer such an outlier, there is some reassurance to the fact that the following opinion is as true to me, as it is Amanda and probably millions more like us.
I don’t think that staying at one company for 20+ years necessarily correlates with building a career. Gen Y’s are more adaptive and willing to jump companies if it means advancing their career and lifestyle goals. I believe that this is a strength of our generation, not a weakness. I would rather change jobs many times to advance my career than allow my career to stagnate due to “corporate loyalty.” ~ Amanda, Tustin, CA : July 8, 2010 4:24 pm
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Granted, I can understand that a CV of contract research and 6 – 12 month “career” efforts probably looked disconcerting to potential employers. And probably well it should because each job was for me about discovering something new about what I wanted to do with my life.
In some cases I learnt lessons about what I would do and what I could achieve but in most I learnt more about what I didn’t want. It was a process of discovery that has lead me to the clear realisation that as an employee other people were never going to allow me to challenge the status quo, learn and grow by testing limits. I was not made to fit the “employee” mold, a fact which I believe will prove true of many of our generation.
Being a part of “Gen Y” and soon to be a graduate of business school. I see my generation as one that will not sit in the corporate world to be told what to do when we know it is out dated. We want to be entrepreneurs and create our own opportunities. We will be a generation that wants social responsibility and making our communities better ~ Fletch, Omaha, NE : July 8, 2010 10:00 am
Gen Y Entrepreneurs
Love us or hate us by 2020 we will represent almost 40% of the New Zealand workforce. Maybe it’s time to accept that aspects of our work ethic, our ability to adapt quickly and easily to change for instance, are more suited to modern living.
Our entrepreneurial spirit makes us increasingly willing and able to take risks, our education has armed us with knowledge and insight and today’s technology allows us to connect, share and collaborate in new, more effective ways.
Today we recognise that we always have the option of working for ourselves and at Worknow we encourage this entrepreneurial spirit, the challenge of directing your own future and employing your talent, skills and interests to discover your dream job
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Jane Wales: Greater Competition, Enhanced Support Keys to Boosting Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Imagine if countries competed with each other to create the best environment in which social innovation can occur. And imagine if social entrepreneurs were actively encouraged and supported in countries around the world.
Two consultative bodies affiliated with the World Economic Forum (WEF) -- its Global Agenda Council on Philanthropy and Social Investing and the Global Agenda Council on Social Entrepreneurship -- are aiming to make those ambitions a reality. These bodies are just two of 60 interdisciplinary entities part of the forum's Global Redesign Initiative, which is seeking ways in which international institutions or arrangements should be adapted to meet contemporary challenges.
"Particularly in the wake of the global economic crisis," according to WEF's Klaus Schwab, "we need to rethink our values, redesign our systems, and rebuild our institutions to make them more proactive and strategic, more inclusive, more reflective of the new geo-political and geo-economic circumstances, and more reflective of inter-generational accountability and responsibility."
Everybody's Business: Strengthening International Cooperation in a More Interdependent World summarizes and reports on proposals from the WEF's global councils, focused on specific challenges, from health to economic growth to poverty to sustainability. The Council on Philanthropy and Social Investing, chaired by The Economist's Matthew Bishop, proposes development of a Social Competitiveness Index that would inspire countries to become more socially innovative. More broadly, the goal is to help analysts and policymakers catch up with the revolution that has been taking place in the social sector for the past decade or so -- to "chart its evolution going forward and show countries how to make the most of this opportunity."
The Council on Social Entrepreneurship, chaired by J. Gregory Dees of Duke University,
proposes development of a Global Alliance of Social Entrepreneurs, guided by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. This alliance, among other things, would establish a Consultative Group for Research to Advance Social Entrepreneurship (CGRASE) similar to the World Bank-hosted Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), which has become world-recognized for its role in advancing microfinance. CGRASE's mission would be to conduct research on and promote policies supporting social entrepreneurship, including working to have the UN designate 2011 the "Year of the Social Entrepreneur."Beyond philanthropy and social entrepreneurship, other ideas proposed include: creation of a global financial risk watchdog; development of a strategy to improve the diet of the poor; establishment of a new business model for humanitarian assistance with better coordination among all sectors; and establishment of an Ocean Health Index to strengthen information available about marine life. The report authors are currently seeking public debate and refinement about the many ideas contained. And this fall they will convene meetings to further discuss and develop these proposals, culminating in the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next January.
The report concludes that today's global challenges require a more integrated and proactive approach, with new or upgraded international institutions and greater international cooperation: "No network exists that is sufficiently interdisciplinary, interactive and international to overcome these barriers to collective intelligence and action."
How to Tax E-Commerce without Killing Entrepreneurship (and eBay) | BNET Technology Blog | BNET
Thank you for your interesting and well considered article.
The difficulty with VAT in our country is that it would be set and managed centrally by the federal government. Under such a scenario, this central VAT agency would then distribute the proceeds to the various jurisdictions throughout the country at their discretion. If this sounds scary (as it should), it is because our country was founded on the most basic concept of taxation with representation. This is why each state has its own house of representatives and senate - to ensure local representation and local voice regarding why, how much, and for what purpose you and your community will agree to be taxed.
When your town has a ballot initiative for the fire department, or schools -- if those ballot measures are passed by a majority of the voters, then the measure is usually funded through local sales taxes. When you don't pay your local sales tax at the time of a transaction with an online retailer, it is only your local community that suffers. Most people are surprised to learn that when an internet retailer fails to collect your local sales tax, you still owe it in the form of a use tax which must be reported annually on your tax return (although understandably, few people do).
The Main Street Fairness Act (HR 5660) simply authorizes the states to collect sales taxes which are already due. States would only be granted this authority once they have simplified their sales tax systems - of which 23 already have (with a 24th, Georgia coming into compliance January 1, 2011).
When the Supreme Court ruled on this matter in 1967 and 1992 it was too difficult for a remote seller to keep track of the thousands of jurisdictions - which is why they were exempted from the obligation to collect. Moving forward to today, large internet retailers (such as eBay or Amazon) easily manage millions of items for sale at any given moment, and even the smallest internet retailer can calculate accurate shipping rates to every corner of the country in a blink of an eye - it is no longer too difficult to keep track of a few thousand local jurisdictions.
Our company, FedTax.net, is launching a completely FREE service named TaxCloud, which automatically calculates accurate local sales tax for every jurisdiction in the United States. Internet merchants can point their existing e-commerce systems at TaxCloud for sales tax calculation, the same way they point at USPS/FedEx/UPS for calculation of shipping rates. For those states which have come into compliance with the Streamlined Sales Tax Agreement, TaxCloud will also automatically remit collected sales taxes, file periodic sales tax returns, and FedTax.net will act as the primary responder in the event of a jurisdictional audit. - again all for FREE.
It is time to pass the Main Street Fairness Act to ensure local business do not have to continue competing over price with internet-only retailers that are taking advantage of a 43-year old ruling to escape their obligation to collect local sales tax.
R. David L. Campbell
Chief Executive
The Federal Tax Authority (FedTax.net)
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In a fit of optimism last post, I put my faith in the current generation. I continue to be impressed by their optimism, idealism, and take-charge attitudes. There’s a group of young people out there who are running circles around the rest of us, doing things we only talked about at that age. A slice of this generation has a preternatural sense of balance in life that’s leading them to shuck convention and marry much later (and better), demand some work-life balance from employers, and reframe what it means to be an activist among other things. They’re doing it their way, and more power to ‘em.
In part, my optimism was also from the wave of warm and fuzzy after the Fourth of July. Who can resist Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful” as the fireworks explode overhead and kids thrill to the fact that they’re up late, sitting on dad’s shoulders, peering over a sea of people.
Here in Chicago, our fireworks take place on the lakefront, where our city planners back in the 1880s made sure that the lakefront and its gorgeous parks were never ceded to the mercantile class to build high-rises that butt up against the lake, and thus ensuring that only the rich enjoy the pleasures of water. People of all stripes need a place to play, a place to cool off in the hot summer, a place to take their kids, said the urban planners. And as a result of this great urban vision, we enjoy miles of uninterrupted public space of blue water and green parks. On the Fourth of July, those parks are filled with families and their bbqs. The result of that urban vision–a “we’re all in this together” vision–is enough to make me optimistic at least for a couple days.
But then the reality of where we stand comes hurtling back. While the ant’s view of the Fourth of July, with people coming together to hang out and put their worries aside for the day, gives me hope, the bird’s-eye view makes me worry. It’s a case of micro optimism against macro realities. Like this macro reality from Isabel Sawhill on whether the American Dream of doing better than your parents has come to an end:
As a result of economic growth, each generation can usually count on having a higher income, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than the previous one. … But that kind of steady progress appears to have stalled. Today, men in their 30s earn 12 percent less than the previous generation did at the same age.
The main reason today’s families have modestly higher overall income than prior generations is simple: More members of the household are working. Women have joined the labor force in a big way, and their earnings have increased as well. But with so many families now having two earners, continued progress along this path will be difficult unless wages for both men and women rise more quickly.
This didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a long time coming as our economy shifted, global pressures kept wages low, unions were busted, and our supposed trickle down economics didn’t do much trickling. A story on Monday in the New York Times about Scott, a 24-year-old struggling to get started, managed to capture this big shift in just a few paragraphs.
Scott’s grandfather came out of WWII to a job as a stockbroker (no MBA required). He earned a modest living, and invested in some real estate on the side and made a tidy sum. The firm that hired him changed hands more than once, but he continued to work out of the same office in the town he lived with his wife. Steady job, steady wages, a few opportunities to invest (even though he grew up in modest circumstances), no college or credentials required– a simple chance to prove yourself and be rewarded. The American Dream.
When Scott’s father graduated from college in 1976, manufacturing was still breathing, and he went to work for a company that made sandpaper and other abrasives. He and his wife bought a white colonial a couple doors down from his parents. He eventually moved over to Stanley Works, and later Endeavor Tool Company as a general manager, where he still works today. A college degree followed by a steady job in manufacturing, upward mobility with each move, a wife, a house, a family. Middle-class security.
And what about Scott? He has a college degree from Colgate, no debt, but no job either. There’s no manufacturing to fall back on, even if he wanted to. He’s living with his parents until he can get a foot on the ladder. Does he risk slipping on that ladder? Time will tell. He’s probably going to be ok, but only because his family is there to support him financially and psychologically. Yet with the erosion of the middle class, and the decimation of the working class, fewer and fewer families are poised to offer that support.
Inequality has been growing at alarming rates, and threatens to stanch any progress we make. The Millennials just now entering the workforce have an uphill climb. For every Scott, with his degree and economic safety net, there are three young people who are losing their shot at the middle class.
As Sawhill says, if you want to join the middle class today you have to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time, and marry before you have children. “If you do all three, your chances of being poor fall from 12 percent to 2 percent, and your chances of joining the middle class [$50,000 a year for a family of three] or above rise from 56 to 74 percent.”
Yet more than half the births to women under age 30 are to single mothers. That alone dramatically increases the chances of poverty. Some of those single births are to couples who are living together, so they’re only single technically. A very small slice is to women with higher education. College, after all, is the best contraception. Most of the births are to women with just a high school degree or some college. And because the well-educated tend to marry each other, it exacerbates income disparities and life chances. “If we add to these family changes the fact that wages for low-skilled workers have stagnated or declined in recent decades,” says Sawhill, “we can explain most of the increase in poverty and much of the increase in the income gap as well.”
The other element on that list in getting to the middle class was working full-time. (one might add, at a decent wage). Young adults today often work part-time when they would prefer to work full-time. Prior to the recession 30% of young adults age 20-24 were working part-time. With the recession that figure has no doubt climbed, since 15% of workers age 20-29 were forced by the recession to shift from a full-time job to part-time. Many feel lucky to have any job, given the sky-high unemployment rate for young adults. In June 2010, 17.8% of men age 20-24 were unemployed, and 11.5% of men age 25-34 were unemployed. For women–12.6% of those age 20-24 were unemployed, and 8.9% of those aged 25-34
So it feels like we have a long way to go to ensure that young adults have the same shot at success as we did and our parents did. While the elite young adults are more impressive than ever, a large slice of our future is struggling, and with them, we risk shrinking our middle class even further. Elites striving ahead at the top, and a big group struggling at the bottom, with no middle in between. Never good.
Sawhill says we should start redistributing the resources from the elderly–who thanks to solid policies and a strong lobby have a fairly comfy life. Medicare and Social Security are taking bigger and bigger portions of our domestic spending. As she says, “Such a shift would not only help create more opportunity, it would improve the productivity of the next generation, making its members better able to contribute to the costs of retirement – including their own.”
I have to agree, albeit reluctantly since I’m closer to recouping my Social Security than not, and I don’t have kids myself. I’ve contributed a lot to this social contract by paying taxes and not having kids. Yet it still makes sense to shift some of this support to the young, when they need it the most. Case in point: I was just home helping my aging parents recover from a health issue, and here’s what they get: free medical care (my parents are both vets too boot), prescriptions for about $10 a pop, a home health aide who comes in one or twice a week to see to their physical therapy, help bathe and dress, do some light housekeeping, and give massages. A nurse comes in once a week to make sure they’re taking their meds, takes their blood pressure and vitals, and follows up with them on other health-related needs. Meals on Wheels brings a free meal once a day. They could also get some transportation help if they needed it. Dad could get a motorized scooter to get around in if he wouldn’t be so stubborn. They also spent a week in rehab at the local nursing home, gratis.
Now granted, they both paid their dues. My dad worked all his life and employed 10 or so men for more than 40 years. He also fought in WWII. My mom was a WAVE in WWII and a homemaker after that. They paid their taxes and contributed to their communities for their entire lives. So they deserve these perks.
But young adults could use some help as well. Some clearer paths from school to work, maybe some subsidized housing, cheaper child care, better health care, cheaper loans for college, more scholarships–we could stand to get a little creative in helping those young people who will be supporting us in our old age. If we don’t, we may never enjoy what my parents now enjoy in their old age: a solid safety net.
So just as Chicago’s city planners had the foresight to create a park for everyone to enjoy (and left an amazing legacy in the process), we too can leave a legacy and ensure that we and future generations continue to have a place in the sun, so to speak–a shot at security and a sense of comfort.
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Confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat, and open to change: This is how the Pew Research Center describes the up-and-coming generation tagged the 'Millennials.'
The term refers to American teens and twenty-somethings who are currently starting out on the pathway to adulthood. And according to the report, they are more ethnically and racially diverse, less religious, more educated than previous generations, and the first "always connected" generation. Eighty percent of Millennials, those born after 1980, say they sleep with their cellphones by their beds, and 75 percent have a profile on a social-networking site, compared with 50 percent of Gen Xers. Fifty-five percent of Millennials who have social-networking profiles visit those sites once a day or more.
When asked what makes their generation unique, 24 percent of Millennials named "technology use." The second most popular answer was "music/pop culture," which was the response by 11 percent of those surveyed.
Millennials were the most likely group surveyed to agree that technology makes life easier, with 74 percent responding affirmatively compared to the overall average of 64 percent. They were also more likely than any other group to say that new technology brings family and friends closer together, with 54 percent agreeing with that statement.
The report used data collected from a phone survey of 2,020 adults.
There are lots of great nuggets of info in the report, including more information about not just technology use, but also family values, work and education, lifestyles, and priorities and outlooks.
Also, you may want to take the How Millennial Are You? quiz. For the record, I am a Millennial, and my score was only 59 out of 100. Maybe I need to get a tattoo or start playing more video games.
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Gregory Cendana: Anti-youth agenda? Try again.
By Sarah Audelo and Gregory Cendana
We were surprised to learn from Gary Bauer ("Obama's Anti-Youth Agenda," Politico, July 9) that Obama's agenda has thus far failed young people in America. We were more surprised that Mr. Bauer, at age 63, considers himself a viable spokesperson for the millennial generation.
Obama's record on youth issues certainly worthy of examination, but it's hardly the disaster portrayed by Mr. Bauer, who seems intent on cramming every conceivable right wing talking point into his critique.
So, as millennial voters who actually cast ballots for President Obama, we would like to offer a different perspective on the topics Mr. Bauer put forth: jobs, health care, abortion and youthful (though he would likely say naïve) idealism.
Jobs
We don't know anyone who isn't concerned about the economy and what that means for prospective employment. But we also understand that this recession started long before President Obama took office. Last year's stimulus bill directly funded tens of thousands of summer jobs for youth in 2009 and, if passed by the Senate, another bill would do the same this year. Unfortunately, the focus continues to be on creating summer jobs, rather than opportunities for year-round employment. With summer already halfway over, it's too little too late. We needed the President to get involved long before now, and we needed him to push for much more intervention.
Even more importantly, President Obama oversaw the passage of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. One of the signature pieces of Obama's agenda that directly addresses the needs of young people in America, this new law will allow millions of young people to attend college and graduate without crippling financial debt. The law expands access to college education with more than $60 billion to fund for federal Pell grants and community colleges, keep interest rates low on federally subsidized student loans, and strengthen loan forgiveness for graduates pursuing a public service career.
Can Obama do more? Certainly, and we hope he will. But to see a truly anti-youth jobs agenda, look to Arizona: The state legislature recently proposed paying anyone younger than age 22 only 75% of the state's minimum wage. That's $5.44 an hour. At least the Obama Administration is taking steps forward, not backward.
Health Care
Given rising youth unemployment, the importance of the health care reform benefit allowing young people to stay on their parents' health care plan through age 25 cannot be overstated, especially since young people are the second highest uninsured demographic. Health Care Reform also expanded Medicaid to include roughly 9 million currently uninsured young adults and, thanks to the Senate, provides $75 million a year for comprehensive sex education programs. Beyond health care reform, the President's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative is an historic breakthrough for young people's health and well-being.
All the news wasn't good, however, on the health care reform front. The Obama administration and Democrats in the House kept a Republican amendment in the bill authorizing $250 million for failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. These programs prohibit information about condoms and birth control for the prevention of pregnancy and disease. It's troubling when a Democratic administration and its congressional allies stand on the sidelines while ideology trumps science, public health, and the rights of young people to accurate information about their sexual health.
But, back to Mr. Bauer and his assertion that, because of Obama's health care reform policies, "young people will bear a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans." Please, we all know that Medicare and Social Security embrace the same cost-sharing principles - and they continue to be wildly popular, as they have been since the New Deal. The last time conservatives pitched our generation on abandoning these principles, President Bush was trying to privatize social security. How did that one work out?
Abortion
If President Obama has "advanced the abortion rights cause more than any president in history," it's surely news to the pro-choice movement. With a Democrat in the White House and strong Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, we could have finally pushed for public funding by ending the Hyde Amendment. We might not have succeeded, but President Obama and the Democrats didn't even try.
By defending the status quo rather than progressive principles, Obama ceded so much ground that he was forced to sign an executive order reaffirming the ban on federal funding for abortion care. As a result, women - young women and low-income women in particular - continue to find their right to safe, affordable and confidential medical care under attack.
Early on, President Obama declared "this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill." With all due respect, Mr. President, abortion care is health care.
Idealism
Mr. Bauer intentionally misreads Obama's pledge that he was doing this "for the next generation" as a direct promise to millennials. He implies that the 66% of young people who voted for Obama did so because of idealistic slogans and fancy campaign swag.
But millennial voters are not just concerned about ourselves. We're doing this for the next generation too - for our younger siblings, for our children, and for generations yet to come. Civic engagement isn't motivated solely by self-interest, but by a belief in the American ideal. Obama's campaign resonated with so many millions of young people not because he promised us immediate solutions to our own intractable problems, but because he promised an approach to government that embraced our responsibility to one another and to the society in which we live.
Obama's agenda was predicated on the idea that we are all in this together and that politics that divide by age, race, gender, sexuality, and religion are the politics of the past. Mr. Bauer seems to embrace, if not relish, these divisions. President Obama wants to consign them to the dustbin of history. So do we.
But that doesn't mean the president has done enough. On two of the great human rights issues facing our country - immigration and LGBT equality - Obama needs to show that his leadership extends beyond the delivery of a single speech. On both issues, young voters trend progressive by wide margins. We are looking for leadership, not rhetoric.
Millennial voters have a responsibility to hold President Obama accountable for his promises, for his actions thus far, and for the opportunities he failed to embraced. But we have an equally important responsibility to be a part of the solution to the problems facing this nation.
The Obama administration has already accomplished much to improve the lives of young people in America, but the real work - for all of us - still lies ahead.
Sarah Audelo is the Senior Manager of Domestic Policy for Advocates for Youth. Gregory Cendana is the president of the United States Student Association.
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Great article by a millennial in response to the recent studies about millennials!
Generation of the Unemployed : The Intern Advocate
Perhaps you read the New York Times article last week on Millennials and their limited job opportunities, entitled “American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation.” For a follower – such as myself – of this generation and what they mean for the workplace, it was pretty interesting.
The thrust of the article was the gloomy professional outlook for our newest generation of workers…or, perhaps more the point, NON-workers. As the Times article reports, “For young adults, the prospects in the workplace, even for the college-educated, have rarely been so bleak. Apart from the 14 percent who are unemployed and seeking work, as Scott Nicholson is [an unemployed Millennial profiled in the article], 23 percent are not even seeking a job, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The total, 37 percent, is the highest in more than three decades and a rate reminiscent of the 1930s.” It is long-established that youthful unemployment can significantly depress one’s lifetime earning potential, so this is not great news for all of these young adults, whether they are seeking work or not.
What is particularly interesting, though, is that their optimism is not seeming to wane. Today’s young adults were raised with very strong messaging about how great they are and how much opportunity awaits them – and it seems to have been internalized despite these difficult economic times. Most Millennials may have scaled back their expectations somewhat about the high-six-figure salary that awaits them, but it is not about whether or not they will get all the success they want, it is just about when. It seems that the tempering of realistic expectations translates to a slightly adjusted timeline, but not necessarily a change to the overarching plan. “[Scott’s brother] is earning $75,000 — a sum beyond Scott’s reach today, but not his expectations. ‘I worked hard through high school to get myself into the college I did,” Scott said, “and then I worked hard through college to graduate with the grades and degree that I did to position myself for a solid job.’”
These high expectations don’t come out of nowhere. The lifelong messaging has been quite strong and has pushed this generation to try new things, engage in many experiences, and see unlimited opportunity for their collective future. This sets a high standard, not just for them, but also for us in the organizations that they may strive to join. So what does this economic turn mean for us and the new employees? Here we have a generation of potential employees interesting in working, while the job options are limited, and yet they continue holding out for better options. What, if anything, does this call upon for us to do?
Most important in all of this, it seems to me, is that in many cases there are jobs to fill that may seem less interesting to Millennials and their passions, but we still want to attract these strong candidates. Many Millennials still hold out for the ideal job, or the closest thing, and lost sight of how one opportunity may lead to the next. As the New York Times wrote with regard to Scott Nicholson, “Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.” I think it is incumbent upon us to help elucidate the opportunities that may not be as clear…and then, by the way, we need to be true to our word and let them grow professionally in the ways that we have promised.
But I am really curious to know what others take on all of this is…? How do you all see the “perfect storm” of economic reality and Millennial hard-wired expectations for the future combining to perhaps create a cultural shift in the work world, or at least in your own organization? The landscape seems to be shifting under our feet all the time, and I wonder about all the little ways in which it is doing so.
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It would be a challenge for participants at an upcoming Jesuit forum to reconcile two apparently opposing views on sustainable development, says the dean of a Jesuit school in Manila. (Jeffrey Asuncion, ucanews.com)In developed countries, it is about protecting the environment but in developing countries, it is about alleviating poverty, says Rodolfo Ang, Dean of Ateneo de Manila University’s John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM).
Ang is leading preparations for the 16th World Forum of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools to be held at the Ateneo de Manila University from July 18-21.
Forty delegates from Jesuit-run business schools in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas are expected to attend the event, which will focus on Educating Champions of Sustainable Development.
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VeloCity | Jim Estill talks Entrepreneurship
This past Monday VeloCity Bootcamp ended off its spring program with Jim Estill, CEO at Large, speaking about the habits that will gear every entrepreneur down the road to success.
While quoting Aristotle: “We are the product of what we repeatedly do”, Jim highlighted 8 key habits that every entrepreneur should live their lives by:
Habit Number 1: Discipline is a limited resource, know it is all about habits and understand that habits make it easy.
Habit Number 2- Fail often, fail fast, fail cheap.
Habit Number 3- Know yourself and use your unique strengths.
Habit Number 4- Set a pace that you can maintain forever. After all, life and business are like a marathon.
Habit Number 5- Be frugal.
Habit Number 6- Nurture a network and stay in touch.
Habit Number 7- Engage in lifelong learning- the adaptable survive, not the strong.
Habit Number 8- Learn strong time management habits.
An excellent activity to help guide you along a path that truly reflects your interests, passions and goals for the future, Jim suggests writing a list of answers to the following questions:
What are your goals this year? What would you do if you had 6 months to live? What would you like to accomplish in a lifetime? What are your values? “If you spend your life polishing your weaknesses you will die with a lot of strong weaknesses” Jim Estill
VeloCity would like to end off this series of Bootcamp program summaries by thanking all of our speakers, mentors and partners such as: Communitech, the Accelerator Centre and the Ontario Centres of Excellence, who all helped to make this program such a huge success! We will be hosting a farewell BBQ next Monday July 19th at the Accelerator Centre from 4-8pm- be sure to come and check out what the Bootcamp as well as VeloCity students have been working on this summer!
@Pearsonified’s Ethos of Creative Entrepreneurship versus the Hive - 1938 Media
As a teenager, I was enthralled by Ayn Rand. Her positive depiction of the creative entrepreneur has been the life-force behind my personal actions and my life-dreams. I remember completely empathizing with the plight of Hank Rearden who, after creating a new metal alloy, decided to keep it private instead of publicizing it for the world to copy for free.
I remember being disgusted by how people had the gall to tell Hank what to do with his creation. Being shocked by how someone can devise a new process and have someone else attempt to rip it away for the so-called “public good”.
I always believed that it was up to Hank Rearden what to do with his miracle alloy. It was his prerogative to donate it to the public just as much as it was his right to sell it and make a fortune off it. He chose the latter, but was forced into the former.
As a user, I am a huge proponent of open-source software. I am currently building a project in Drupal and developing a website for someone in WordPress. I have enjoyed hacking every single line of code that I was able to, and creating something that was me. Open-source afforded me a relatively short launch time and saved me the need to recreate the wheel.
The open-source community is large and flourishing. The ethos of the community is simply to build things that both the creator and other people can use, and like an Amish community raising a barn, to put together a project that is greater than the sum of all the parts.
The community is somewhat paradoxical, with people donating their time, much like Wikipedians, to help out the greater cause, for sheer recognition and spreading goodwill among men, without a clear financial incentive. I believe that without these individuals, the Internet, and indeed the startup world, would look very different. I applaud them.
But I don’t believe that anyone has the right to subject their personal beliefs onto anyone else. I am morally disgusted by a “holier than thou” attitude. It is as if a priest looks with disgust towards a fornicating couple, because he has chosen the path of abstinence for himself.
Chris Pearson created the Thesis Template System in order to assist developers and designers to quickly create and change WordPress-powered websites in an extremely powerful manner. I remember hearing Chris’ description of Thesis over a year ago, and immediately empathizing with the solution that he programmed by hand, by himself.
I was impressed by his business savvy and understanding of how the market works. He created a product that saved people who charge a lot of money for their creations a lot of time. At the time of this writing, he has assisted over 27,021 people and saved countless man-hours of headache and work.
I don’t intend to canonize Chris as a saint. It’s not in my religion. Nor do I think that Chris is trying to be one.
He created a product that he wants to protect the rights to. Chris is heavily involved in the affiliate world, because he has no problem with other people benefiting off of his hard work. As long as he is remunerated as well.
One cannot force another to subscribe to certain belief. The mob cannot force Chris to apply a GPL license to his work, just because like the antagonists of Ayn Rand’s dystopian society, they believe it to be morally right.
Chris knows his audience, their wants and needs, and is hell-bent on delivering that. For this reason, Chris is actually speaking at The Audience Conference next month. Because he cares about his audience.
From the first day of his launching Thesis, Chris was in the black.
Someone who creates a product and charges a fair price while retaining his intellectual property should be venerated and not crucified. Because he is an example to the rest of us that if you create something that helps people, you can make money. And money is not an evil thing.
As we live in a free-market society, instead of threatening Chris with lawsuits and harassing his clients, perhaps the WordPress Foundation and Community should look at the problems that Chris attacked and figure out new creative solutions to solve them. The WordPress Developer Community is not Chris’ audience, and Chris should not have to pay them heed. They are practicing a double standard. If they really believe that they are releasing good karma onto the world by their valuable contribution, that should be enough for them.
Chris does nothing but hold the Community in the highest regard for their holy quest for the greater good. But he is a creative entrepreneur, who cares about giving his audience a elite and exclusive product. And he is content with that.
Chris is a businessman who knows his business.
Who the fuck is John Galt anyways?
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BERNAMA - YP-IKIP �Career in Entrepreneurship Seminar 2010� Receive Good Response
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YP-IKIP �Career in Entrepreneurship Seminar 2010� Receive Good Response
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KUANTAN, July 15 (Bernama)
The �Career in Entrepreneurship Seminar 2010 which was jointly organised by the Pahang Foundation (YP) and IKIP International College recently, attracted over 500 students from higher education institutions all across Pahang.
The one-day seminar held at the Pahang Foundation Complex was designed to provide guidance and assistance to the youths of Pahang who are interested in horning their entrepreneurial skills.
It was officiated by the Pahang State Executive Councillor for Family and Women Development, Arts, Tourism, Community Development, Heritage and Traditions and Unity, Datuk Shafik Fauzan Shariff.
Pahang Foundation General Manager, Datuk Sa'ariah Saad said the programme provided students with exposure on the opportunities available in the field of entrepreneurship.
"Hopefully, it will eventually create a pool of entrepreneurs who are competitive and successful, she said.
The seminar is the first in a three-phase series of youth entrepreneurial development programme aimed at inculcating entrepreneurial skills in youths and students.
This will be followed by a week of Basic Training in Entrepreneurship, which will be conducted in the second phase from Aug 2 to Aug 8.
The final phase will involve a month-long Mentor-Mentee Programme in October.
The Foundation has set aside provided some RM200,000 for the whole programme, Sa'ariah said.
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American Community Development Group, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Multiple Housing Units - MarketWatch
TAMPA, Fla., Jul 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American Community Development Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ACYD) announced today that, effective September 30, 2009, it acquired multiple housing units that will shelter up to 24 ex-offenders and other individuals. The initial agreement is expected to generate about $120,000 in recurring annual revenue. "We will add additional properties, thereby rapidly increasing cash flow while reducing overhead expenses through consolidation," stated John Folger, President and CEO.
American Community Development Group, Inc. (ACDG) is a for-profit corporation founded to provide economic support and management guidance to the nonprofit community. "We believe in the concept of 'Social Entrepreneurship'," stated Jeffrey Staller, President of Heritage Corporate Services. "We have the task and privilege of assisting the non-profit community while also creating strong economic returns on capital."
ACDG has chosen this growth field because it offers constant expansion and a socially conscious application, focusing on the talents of the founders. ACDG has signed agreements with non-profits that are providers of various services while also operating missions for the homeless, veterans, ex-offenders, drug and alcohol programs, and housing facilities for other disadvantaged persons in the Tampa Bay, Florida area.
Affordable Housing
"We are acquiring interests in multi-family, affordable housing and other high occupancy commercial real estate properties. We will break new ground as a national provider of these affordable housing services by specializing in residents that have been previously under-served. As a for-profit company, we have the ability to acquire, renovate and manage group housing, including apartments and mobile home parks. We will dramatically increase cash flow through greater population density combined with efficient and professional property management," Folger stated.
Job Creation is Profitable Enterprise
The second focus of ACDG is to create jobs appropriate to these same disadvantaged citizens, further supporting social entrepreneurship. These jobs will be created in various enterprises that require minimal start-up capital while offering a high return and profit. The enterprise will be created through acquisition of profitable businesses or the launching of franchise type businesses that meet our employment and profitability criteria.
ACDG is creating numerous non-profit relationships nationally that have an ongoing need for both housing and job creation. "These non-profit organizations currently have government assisted agreements to assist in placement of their disadvantaged citizens," Folger continued. ACDG projects 90% occupancy rates can be accomplished over a 90 day period with each new property acquired.
The executive management team of ACDG consists of experienced property developers and managers on a national level in residential/commercial real estate. They also have a wealth of experience in emerging growth of public and private entities, capital markets, and merger/acquisition strategies.
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Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company's domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company's ability to replace and expand its holdings.
SOURCE: American Community Development Group, Inc.
American Community Development Group, Inc. John Folger, President, 727-902-4108 jfolger@acdginc.com www.americancommunitydevelopmentgroup.comor Investor Relations: Heritage Corporate Services Jeffrey Staller, 888-543-6076 Jeffrey@HeritageCorporateServices.comCopyright Business Wire 2010
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Entrepreneurship Program at Career Development Organization (CDO) | Personal Development Tips
Entrepreneurship Program at Career Development Organization (CDO)
by on July 15, 2010
Course Overview:
The program is designed to achieve the following goals:
· Increase the business and leadership skills of entrepreneurs
· Assist graduates through a theory-based and practical approach to learning
· Improve the understanding and perception of youth role in building entrepreneurial ventures and creating societal wealth
· Teach youth entrepreneurs how to establish their own business
· How to write your business plan
The program will use an applied learning approach where students will be given the opportunity to immediately translate theoretical concepts into practical actions. A business plan workshop will be integrated throughout the program and used to facilitate the application of the content. The program will use a variety of teaching methods including: self-assessments, case studies, role playing, skill-based learning labs, team activities, and coaching sessions with mentors and advisors.
Course outline
- Defining the Entrepreneur, building your personal brand
- Competencies needed for youth’s Entrepreneurship
- Management Skills
- Leadership skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Team Building
- Computer Skills _ Excel & Power point (optional)
- Legal – labor law – companies types
- Strategic Management
- Feasibility Study
- Marketing – Competitive Strategy
- Financial Accounting
- Business Operations
- Leveraging technology
- Human Resources & Personnel
- Writing Business Plan
- Table of Contents.
- Executive Summary.
- Nature of the Business.
- Strategy Formulation.
- Market Analysis.
- Marketing Plan.
- Operational Plans-Service/Product.
- Financial Plan.
- Organization & Management.
10. Human Resources Plan.
11. Ownership.
12. Risk Analysis.
13. Timetable & milestones.
14. Strategy Implementation- Action Plan.
15. Evaluation & Control.
16. Summary
Career Development Organization (CDO) is considered, one of the main players in the human resources; offering a broad range of services especially in training, recruitment consultancy, salary survey, benefits packages, job evaluation, and job description.
CDO is known for serving Governmental Sectors, International and Large Local organizations, and for its professional performance, therefore, our consultancy approach is to spend some initial time with our clients, listening carefully to their issues and then tailor proposals to their specific needs in an agreed, practical and cost-effective way. We are focusing on the organization goals.
CDO’s team is selected from an accomplished group of specialists in their fields, who have many years of experience in providing HR constancies; management modernization, employee relations and retention, salary payroll, reward and performance management.
This includes services which add value to the employment and pension practices within the Human Resources group:
Services offered by CDO:
- Restructuring the organization
- Human Resources Effectiveness Audits.
- Training & Development
- Salary & Benefits Survey
- Government reform
- Job Design and defining work
- Job Evaluation and Grading
- Rewarding for performance and results
- Development of competency frame works.
- Implementation of Performance Management systems.
- Implementation of Job Analysis & Selection frameworks.
- Establishment of career path structures.
- Succession Planning and the establishment of Leadership and Talent programs.
- Building employee motivation and engagement
- Boosting organizational performance
- Making mergers and acquisitions work
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