Asks the Irish Independent (thanks Rowan).

Answer: the one-sentence ethics code.

Not an endorsement.

I’m on it. It works for me. And it might work for you.

Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the company behind the slide show featured in An Inconvenient Truth, and author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations had this to say about delivering a successful presentation.

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Diploma Mill Concerns Extend Beyond Fraud [Free registration may be required]

Bill to crack down on diploma mills stalls

Brainstorm: Diploma Mills

Psst. Wanna Buy a Ph.D.?

Institution Accreditation

Avoid Fake-Degree Burns By Researching Academic Credentials

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at Techcrunch.

One of football/soccer’s renowned strategist kept detailed accounts of his opponents’ strengths and weaknesses, but he also kept his eyes on the game’s essentials: “The ball is round” and “The game lasts 90 minutes”.

Not unlike “What is our business?” and “Who is our customer?” that are part of Drucker’s essential five questions you must ask about your oganization..

We are also HOW we read.

It is often said that the Net is the new printing press. It also produces in the “reader” something new.

[T]he style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online (…), we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged. (…)

The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking. (the Atlantic)

One study (…) found that workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task.

Estimated cost to the U.S. economy from loss of productivity: $650 billion annually.

[W]e are really talking about attention: the art of paying attention, the ability to shift our attention, and, more broadly, to exercise judgment about what objects are worthy of our attention. People who have achieved great things often credit for their success a finely honed skill for paying attention. When asked about his particular genius, Isaac Newton responded that if he had made any discoveries, it was “owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.” (the New Atlantis)

“I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”

As good for a West Point cadet as for any college student or business person.