Radisson’s parent company is Carlson, which is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota — which is about 12-15 miles from where I’m typing this — so that means this conversation happened in Minnetonka sometime in the past two-three months. UW-Wisconsin MBA graduate: The… Continue Reading
That video above is hopefully an outlier, but it’s also some guy telling Nightline that blacks and Jews are, disproportionately, “predators.” This is 2014. We have an African-American U.S. President — and have for about five years — and we’re probably going to have… Continue Reading
Depending on your particular political ideology, you may embrace or deny climate change — that’s all well and good, but the science behind it is there and rather indisputable. Now it’s a question of who benefits and who loses, which Shell (oil… Continue Reading
Fact: San Francisco and Boston — two innovation hubs based on coasts, universities, etc. — are becoming more expensive. Fact: cities like Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, right there in the heartland/Rust Belt, are beginning to attract new start-ups and incubators and… Continue Reading
In the past eight years — yep, a decade basically — there’s only one school in America that has consistently hired full-time faculty while slashing admin roles, and that school is … drumroll … Iowa State University. Here’s the main article with the data and here’s one… Continue Reading
You’ve probably been hearing about the insanely high unemployment numbers for some European countries for the last several years — the number I most hear associated with Spain is 27 percent, and over 50 percent of youth, while similarly horrible… Continue Reading
Feel like I’ve been posting a lot recently about the flaws in the recruiting process, so I’ll keep this one a little brief to avoid overload on that front. I saw this Lou Adler post on LinkedIn today about “The… Continue Reading
Taking a cross-cultural class right now, and one recent discussion was on perceptions of America from two angles — those who have lived in America their whole lives, and those who had come in the last 10 years. It was… Continue Reading