Expand Your Mind: Stuff You Should Know
by Miki Saxon
Today is a varied bag of stuff you should know—or at least know about.
Our first entry shouldn’t come as a surprise. Trust in business leaders is at an all-time low; it still ranks above trust in government leaders—but not by much.
In today’s multi-tasking, wired, always connected, omg-I-might-miss-something world here’s help on training yourself and others to focus.
“Unmentionables” has a whole new meaning and it can damage or even destroy your organization; once again, the problem and the solution are found in your culture.
Now for the fun stuff.
Millions of people base their buying decisions on peer reviews, AKA, the “wisdom of crowds,” but how wise is it when the “wisdom” is for sale?
Heads up! This is a rant. In today’s world of ‘citizen journalists’ I may wince at the misused words, but given our educational system I’m not surprised. However, when I see them in major online media sites such as Vator.tv I get really annoyed, as I did yesterday at this sentence, “Zynga is not loosing steam when it comes to entering 2012 with a whole new lineup of games for its users to get addicted to.’ I’m not referring to the fact that the sentence ends in a preposition, that’s way too common to cause a reaction. But if Zynga does start ‘loosing steam’ I at least hope the water isn’t too polluted.
This final entry should probably be called something like ‘when disparate things converge’. If you happen to have abundant disposable income and require a hospital stay shop around; you may be surprised at what’s available.
Flickr image credit: pedroelcarvalho
