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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Georgia Tech Offers Credentialing for Online MOOC CS Masters
I’ve seen lots of press about the Udacity + Georgia Tech = Credentialed Online CS Masters announcement. The thing that excites me is that we now have a top-10 computer science university leveraging their reputation to get into credentialing. As I’ve … Continue reading
Fooled By Randomness
“I think the market is going to go up today, but I’m betting against it.” You might think that statement is a little contradictory, but as Nassim Taleb explains, in Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and … Continue reading
What Great Managers Do
There is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it. So says Marcus Buckingham in the fifth article in Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must … Continue reading