Adam Grant, author of ‘Give and Take’
Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs
Tweeted by Ronnie Screwvala.
Celebrates blue collar work and has an interesting take on the word ‘passion’ and its deification in the management circles (at counter 11:16).
What the dow tells us about ourselves
On Tuesday, the company behind the Dow Jones Industrial Average said it would make the biggest change to the average in nearly a decade, dropping three companies (Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, and Bank of America) and replacing them with three others (Nike, Goldman Sachs, and Visa). We think of the Dow as a way to track the stock market, but it also can serve as a barometer for how consumer culture has evolved during the Dow’s hundred-and-seventeen-year history.
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