Support Education
This is the fifth in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. At every level, the future of America depends on raising the educational level of the whole population. Gone are the mass-production jobs that allowed low-skilled people to get work in a factory operating a machine and earn a pretty [...]
Trendspotting: Fashion 101
The College Catwalk More and more college students are banishing sweatpants in favor of statement-making luxury labels That stereotype about the rumple-haired college student who rolls out of bed and into the classroom wearing sneakers and sweatpants is not ringing true these days. Especially along the tree-lined paths of Ivy League campuses, today’s university students [...]
Trendspotting: A College Conundrum
A Major Upheaval U.S. college students are encouraged to major in STEM fields to fill empty positions and rev the economy When it comes to the American job market, or lack thereof, there are some troubling incongruities. For instance: Why, with 14 million people pounding the pavement looking for work, do 52 percent of U.S. [...]
Where Is the Value in a Four-Year Education?
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Value. Okay, that wasn’t exactly how it went. But just as our view of plastics has changed significantly since the era of The Graduate, the American dream of the 1960s—marriage, a family, a house in the suburbs [...]
