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Academic Leadership: 3 C’s to Ensure Success in the Classroom
February 11, 2013
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General, Higher Education
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Most people share their challenges, yet few give as much attention to their success. Of course, we can grow and learn from challenges, but there is just as much growth and learning available when we examine our success.
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This Week’s Top 5 Blogs
February 11, 2013
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General
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This week’s Top 5 blogs: From nuclear attack threats to business ethics scandals here’s a sampling of this week’s most popular posts.
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Why Personal Branding is Critical in the Digital Age
February 8, 2013
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Career Advice
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Research shows that it takes a fraction of a second for someone to form a first impression of you, and often that impression is accurate. When you settle on that bit of knowledge, it’s unnerving. What if the impression you’re leaving behind isn’t the one you intended?
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Is Cloud Technology the “Next Big Thing” in Healthcare?
February 7, 2013
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Health Sciences, IT and Computer Science
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Hands down, cloud technology is changing the IT landscape whether we’re ready for it or not. The cloud offers businesses and their IT functions greater flexibility and at a more cost-effective rate, so we can expect this trend to become a mainstay, especially in health care related businesses.
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Understanding the Importance of Creating Shared Value
February 6, 2013
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Business and Management
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In August 2012, we launched Colorado Technical University’s new Distinguished Lecturer Series with Amy Powell, Director of Operations for Starbucks Coffee Co. The CTU Distinguished Lecturer Series continues on February 14 with Dr. Ingo Böbel, a published author and scholar who has had a profound impact on industrial organization research. Dr. Böbel was recently ranked 46 by The Economist out of 250 nominations for the “BUSINESS PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD”. I recently had the opportunity to gain Dr. Böbel’s insight on Creating Shared Value (CSV) and its impact on the future of business.
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National Security’s Big Five
February 5, 2013
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Homeland Security
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Recently, National Defense Magazine (NDM) published a report on the top five threats to national security. The threats – biological weapons, nuclear weapons, cyber attacks, climate change and transnational crime/terror – may not be surprising. Even still, it’s a solid reminder that the world remains a dangerous place. The tools of the trade are available and, in some cases, relatively unsophisticated. The United States is neither immune to these threats nor so technologically superior that overcoming them can be guaranteed.
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Why Business Students Should Care About Ethics
February 4, 2013
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Business and Management
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In the early 2000s, the scandals at Enron, Arthur Anderson and WorldCom caused leading enterprises and places of higher learning to have more prominent discussions about business ethics. The late-2008 global economic meltdown added more names to the list of once reputable companies that have now become infamous: Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers.
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Top Five Articles for the Week
February 4, 2013
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General
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Read this week's top five articles, including keeping data safe, student centered teaching and a look inside the mind of a rapist.
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Innovation in Higher Education: Student Centered Teaching
February 1, 2013
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Higher Education
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Prior to my career in higher education, I consulted with organizations on how to effectively use emerging media to achieve strategic goals. One client was an intermediate school district. I recall conversations with the district’s curriculum consultants about how experts knew (and preached) the value of innovation in teaching and learning, but failed to actually put it into practice.
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It’s a New Year: Make Your Relationships Count
January 31, 2013
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General, Health Sciences
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Like clockwork, when the New Year rolls around people everywhere resolve to make a fresh start. It makes sense. The slower pace of the holiday season that precedes the New Year is a perfect time for personal reflection. It’s during that time, your mind gravitates to the many things you wish you had done but never seemed to make time for.
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