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The Sunday New York Times had a special section called "Education Life." One article, "Career U.," describes some of the changes we might expect in university education. For example, the president of the University of Michigan was surprised (to put it mildly) when she learned five years ago that 10% of incoming freshmen, some 600, had started their own businesses while in high school. She and her colleagues responded by creating about 100 entrepreneurship courses. The article tickles our imagination by describing a few of the more inventive new master's programs:

Selling Should Be Like Breathing
How I learned to be a saleman--something I discovered years after I had gotten my Ph.D. degree.
A Myth of My Own
Every founder of a business has his or her own myth, which is the spirit that drives our being. James Chan relates his personal myth and hopes that other entrepreneurs will write their own too.
The Right Strategic Human Resource Imperatives for Right Now
Given the current economic climate, human resource executives and CEOs need to be thinking about some key people issues in order to improve their chances for organizational success. The key questions are these: 1) If I'm laying off staff, will I have retained the people who have the competencies required to execute our strategies? 2) If our strategies are changing, do I know the competencies people will need to have in order to successfully execute those new strategies? 3) Can I accurately identify our true High Potentials, and do I know what to do to keep them at this time? The good news is that there are clear answers for these questions and practical approaches to take today to make strategic human resource contributions to the success of your organization.
Paper Towel vs. Sponge
We know we want to reduce and reuse and, if possible, we would like to use less paper. That puts us squarely in the middle of the paper towel vs. sponge debate.
The Importance of Customer Satisfaction
This article discusses the importance of creating excellent customer satisfaction so that your customers spend more of their dollars with your company. It also give some ideas that you can implement immediately in your business to accomplish this.

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the conversion of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Community Bank Limited into a microfinance bank. The community bank has operated on the campus of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria since March of 2003, and the majority of its shareholders are affiliated with the university. One source reports that, in its first year in business, the bank made a surplus that was “far in excess of its total paid up capital,” but no other sources were found to corroborate this information and no further information was found on the OOU Community Bank.
The Magic of Marketing
A research team from Durham University and the University of British Columbia is investigating magic tricks to further understand how people's minds work. The key magician's techniques that the team investigated were misdirection and illusion.
Shultz Starbucks
Born in 1952 and raised in Brooklyn, Howard Shultz was the first man to turn the Starbucks Company into a billion dollar retail operation. Howard Shultz grew up in a subsidized housing project is the eldest of three children and the first in his family to ever graduate from college. Moreover, Shultz attended Northern Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in the arts and sciences on a football scholarship.
A Modern Hermit
Jan Opdyke gave me her story of living alone as an entrepreneur, deep in the woods of Michigan. She not only poses as a model for a way to live and work, she also is the person who typed my Ph.D. dissertation back when we were classmates at The University of Michigan. The year was 1977. Without her help, I could not have gotten my doctoral degree on time.
Hmmm!
The Sunday New York Times had a special section called "Education Life." One article, "Career U.," describes some of the changes we might expect in university education. For example, the president of the University of Michigan was surprised (to put it mildly) when she learned five years ago that 10% of incoming freshmen, some 600, had started their own businesses while in high school. She and her colleagues responded by creating about 100 entrepreneurship courses. The article tickles our imagination by describing a few of the more inventive new master's programs:

How To Do Highly Effective Articles Marketing
I would like to share with you today one of the most powerful traffic generation methods that had helped me tremendously when I first started. It was back then in 2005-2006, when I was just a normal student who was going to enter the university. At that time, I joined the writer's club in the university hopefully to gain some experience in writing. We wrote and published a tiny entertainment magazine for our fellow peers and undergraduates in the whole university.
Sanity Survival-PATIENCE, NOW!!!!!!
Impatient people are prone to obesity, according to a study at the University of Munich in Germany and the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Impatient types are also shown to have a high risk for hypertension later in life. Follow these four tips to explore your impatience and overcome it!
Americans' Unhealthy Lifestyle Is the Leading Cause of Death
The leading cause of death in America is not heart disease, cancer, stroke or diabetes. It is the unhealthy lifestyle that most Americans are addicted to which is the true cause. A study by Mathew Reeves, a Michigan State University epidemiologist finds that only 3% of Americans maintain a healthy lifestyle. It is a situation that is causing dire consequences for millions of Americans. "I was really quite surprised at how low that number was,” said Reeves, an assistant professor of epidemiology." The research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, found that only 3 percent undertook four basic steps that define a healthy lifestyle: Are you a 3%'er?
Don’t Cut & Gut Michigan No Fault Says Attorney Terry Cochran
Michigan’s No Fault Law has worked well for several years, serving as a model for other states. Now, in a cost-cutting attempt, the Michigan Legislature is proposing changes that will gut this fine law.
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