Archive for April 12th, 2012
CE#557: Steve Jobs, parts 1/2 (60 Minutes/CBSNews)
Posted by accelum in Biography, Innovation, Leadership, Motivational, Technology, Video on April 12, 2012
CE#556: Demystifying Conducting (Video/NYT)
Posted by accelum in Leadership, Music, Visualization on April 12, 2012
CE#554: Latin American schools: disconnected (Andres Oppenheimer/The Miami Herald)
By Andres Oppenheimer
Two new studies confirm what we have long suspected: Latin American companies cannot effectively compete in the world economy because their countries’ educational systems are totally disconnected from reality.
The Global Information Technology Report 2012, a 442-page report by the World Economic Forum and the INSEAD business school, places most Latin American countries far behind the world’s most technologically connected countries in its ranking of “network readiness.”
The index takes into account various measurements, including internet use and people’s ability to use it productively, from international organizations and a survey of more than 15,000 executives worldwide.