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What can you do with your data? Can you see it with your own eyes? The latest in understanding our world is Data Visualization. Our eyes are capable or taking in a studying vast amounts of data in...
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Maps are an example of visual, big data thinking. Geography has always mattered. How do maps help us think spatially? Find out more here: The Importance of Spatial Thinking Now – Kirk Goldsberry –...
View ArticleWhat is the Best Way to Make a To-Do List?
How do you create to do lists? What classifications do you have for your lists based on importance, time range and necessity? If you have a new way to create, maintain and accomplish to do lists, share...
View ArticleWeekend Thoughts, RWE
Many years ago I read this famous line from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The house praises the carpenter.” Today I am stopping to reflect and answer the question, “What was it about this thought, the first...
View ArticleDirect Drucker Questions for Business to Ask
What are some great questions to ask if you are in business? How about “What does the customer value?” or another one, “What is our business, and what should it be?” Find out six fundamental questions...
View ArticleEnergizing Your Exhausted Employees
Motivating people is difficult under the best of circumstances: As Gallup’s latest State of the American Workplace survey showed, 70% of U.S. employees aren’t engaged at work, a statistic that has not...
View ArticleSurpassing Expectations
Customers are more connected and empowered than ever before. If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight...
View ArticleSuzanne Kasler|Interior Design Ideas
Are you in need of visual inspiration? Here are some interior design ideas you may never forget. Visit: Suzanne Kasler Tagged: Interior Design Home Ideas
View ArticleChinese Pistache – Ornamental Plant of the Week
Find out more about this brightly colored ornamental plant that grows well in Louisiana: Chinese Pistache – Ornamental Plant of the Week for December 9, 2013 – LSU AgCenter Tagged: what to plant in...
View ArticleExecutives Ignore Valuable Employee Actions that They Cant Measure
Along with better data, we need to develop a more nuanced view of human qualities and human potential. Can we not only accept, but embrace, that some behaviors may not be reducible to easily...
View Article2013 LSU Accounting Tiger Tactics Now Online
BATON ROUGE – The 2013 edition of the Department of Accounting publication “Tiger Tactics” is now available online. In 2009, the department introduced “Tiger Tactics” as a means of informing family and...
View ArticleUnstructured vs. Structured Data
Companies must find a practical way to deal with big data to stay competitive — to learn new ways to capture and analyze growing amounts of information about customers, products, and services. Data is...
View Article25 Tips to “Think Rich” from Reader’s Digest
Most of them weren’t always rolling in it. Here are 25 tips from rich people on how to make your money matter. How Rich People Think: 25+ Things They Won’t Tell You | Reader’s Digest. Tagged: reader's...
View ArticleHow Google Became the Best Place to Work
But how does Google pull it off? In the past couple of years, the company has hired social scientists to study the organization. The scientists—part of a group known as the PiLab, short for People...
View ArticleIBM InterConnect 2013: Ginni Rometty – A New Era of Smart
I believe information and analytics is going to be the basis of competitive advantage for all companies going forward. -Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President, and CEO. ▶ IBM InterConnect 2013: Ginni...
View ArticleEight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator
One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. “Ask a lot of questions,”...
View Article“How to End Poverty in 60 Minutes”
BATON ROUGE – This is not a play. This is not a lecture. This is not an interactive workshop, a theatre piece or a public conversation. Sojourn Theatre’s “How to End Poverty in 60 Minutes” is all of...
View Article26 Marketing Tips from Baton Rouge’s Benny DiChaira
Advertising and marketing are not the same thing. Marketing is your overall plan. Advertising is the biggest part of your budget typically but it is not your marketing plan. Progress is not a straight...
View ArticleYour Use of Pronouns Reveals Your Personality
The finding: A person’s use of function words—the pronouns, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs that are the connective tissue of language—offers deep insights into his or her...
View ArticleDiscover Passionate Ideas at Kickstarter
Passion, ideas, and ambition abound. Start exploring! Go here: Discover Projects — Kickstarter Tagged: Crowdfunding, Kickstarter
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