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Do you know a student who wants to attend a college where there is ‘Big-time’ football program?  Now that the BCS rankings are out and the Bowl game match-ups are decided, it is easy to find schools that match this criteria. But if you are the one paying for the...

My wife and I went to see the movie ‘Secretariat‘ last night and we were thoroughly entertained.  Although I was a teenager when this horse ran for the Triple Crown in 1973, I could still remember some of the details of the story – like the margin of victory in the...

Approx 480 words (2-3 minute read) I just read a post that quoted Shawn Achor stating that happy workers produce more, and I wonder how many people (i.e., employers) are surprised by this.  I like to follow Shawn’s stuff.  He’s a Texas guy who ended up going to...

A recruiting site that I monitor published a good article today by John Sullivan that lists 8 talent management lessons businesses could learn from the World Series: Identify critical success factors and prioritize around them Continuous talent swapping is needed...

700 words (2 – 3 minutes) I often look up the most recent articles on college statistics, and it seems that most of them – especially the articles about costs and graduation rates – still show that we are going in the wrong direction.  When I look at how the college...

One of the ongoing jokes around my house is how to make things easier in life.  We joke about crazy stuff, like instead of having to add mayonnaise to tuna to make tuna salad, why not just get the tuna fish to eat mayonnaise so we wouldn’t have to add it in. In...