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By Sarah Newton Generation Y employees are always being discussed and yet again, more research has the papers saying yes, they do have a sense of entitlement. There is a post that says: “Gen Y workers get a bad rap in the workplace, with many a geezer complaining that their work ethic is less developed [...]

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Do Millennials Read?

By Carol Phillips* “I don’t read a lot, I never have. I was happy when the movie ‘Where the Wild things Are’ came out, ’cause that’s the first movie I’ve ever been qualified to say that the book was better than the movie.” — Tony Grayson, High School Senior, Oak Park, IL As a professor, [...]

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Gen Y: Our Values Define Us

By Carol Phillips* The premise of generational marketing is that each generation assumes a characteristic set of values and behaviors. While it’s not everything you need to know to market effectively, it provides a cultural foundation and helps avoid the ego-centric mistake of thinking other generations are just like you, only younger or older. While [...]

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By Mauro Segura I know business executives who have been very successful in their own careers.  Yet they’ve faced tremendous difficulties in helping their kids as they embark on their own professional journey.  At this moment, all parents find themselves in the same boat.  It doesn’t matter if you’re got a PhD from Harvard, or [...]

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By Vanessa Van Petten I wrote a post called “Teen Slang: Decoding What Your Teens Are Saying”  and it did well for about 2 weeks until the negative comments started rolling in. “We don’t saaaaaay that anymore.” “These are, like, so old!” Two weeks? Two weeks is all it takes for something to become out [...]

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The red areas indicate regions of activation in the functional MRI scanner during the particular task – reading (1st photo) or web searching (2nd photo). By Ines Schinazi Technology is obviously changing the way we speak, communicate, interact, and relate to each other. But is technology also changing our brains? Dr. Gary Small thinks so. [...]

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My Turn

By Sam Davidson* It started innocently enough. It was a phrase I saw randomly that I thought would make a neat T-shirt for the college crowd (renegade or not). I saw it in my mind’s eye, emblazoned in white across black T-shirts the world over. It was a statement of fact, piggybacking on a word [...]

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