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Infographic: How Napping Can Help Your Business : Under30CEO
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How One Bank Rethought Automated Customer Service | Co.Create
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Creativity needed to create start-ups.
From the quote below, it is very clear that we urgently much create new jobs.
“Despite strenuous government efforts, the jobs crisis continues unabated, with one in three workers worldwide – or an estimated 1.1 billion people – either unemployed or living in poverty”, said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. “What is needed is that job creation in the real economy must become our number one priority”.
And it is also highly unlikely that large companies will create these new jobs. Census Bureau data show that most of the net employment gains in the United States between 1980 and 2005 came from firms younger than five years old.
This means that the focus must be on creating start-ups, helping people to set up their own businesses. However, our upbringing and education are not geared towards this. We are taught to be obedient employees and not initiating entrepreneurs. So , there is quite some learning needed in this area.
It would also be good if many of these start-ups have a goal to improve the social good. Social innovation is still very much needed in large parts of the world. Many people lack energy, electricity, clean water, sanitation, and/or food.
I would like to call upon all entrepreneurs, government and education institutions to bundle the forces and to use their combined creativity to help these people to earn a decent living for themselves and their families.
How are you planning to contribute?
GROW YOUR PEOPLE, GROW YOUR BUSINESS!
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Global Employment Trends (ctd)
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Constant Pursuit
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“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell”
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Dot Connection
The follow up. The rebound.
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Finding Work in Design for Social Innovation by Cheryl Heller
This is about people and things that lead us to new lives, new meaning in the lives...
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Three reasons why experiential purchases create more happiness than material ones
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Businesses Encouraging Employees to Get Social
While it’s not news that businesses continue to turn to social media to attract customers, a new...
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A Sustainability+Design Manifesto
Although it has taken a few months to get out, I wrote this little manifesto after attending ...
