Research suggests that excessive, long-term exposure to electronic environments is reconfiguring young people's neural networks and possibly diminishing their ability to develop empathy, interpersonal relations, and nonverbal communication skills. One study indicates that because there's only so much time in the day, face-to-face
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Why Millennials Have Lousy Social Skills
On Harvard Business Review Blog Network, senior U.S. government executive John K. Mullen discusses how digital lifestyles may be impairing the millennial generation's capacity for face-to-face interaction:
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Millennials
Why Don’t Girls Believe They’re Good at Math & Science?
Some pretty eye-opening statistics in a new infographic from EngineeringDegree.net. It looks at how gender stereotypes and social pressures eat away at girls' confidence in their abilities in certain subjects, to the point at which most women shy away from careers in those fields despite their natural aptitude for them. One stat in particular stands out: When girls are asked to state their gender on a test, they score, on average, 20 percent lower than they would have had they not been asked that question!
Check out the infographic and let us know what you think:
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Gender
What Makes Good Business in the 21st Century?
David Jones, global CEO of Havas and Euro RSCG Worldwide, and author of Who Cares Wins, speaks with Monika Mitchell of Good Business International on why good business is better business:
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New Consumer
What Makes Good Business in the 21st Century?
David Jones, global CEO of Havas and Euro RSCG Worldwide, and author of Who Cares Wins, speaks with Monika Mitchell of Good Business International on why good business is better business:
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Brand Leadership