Saturday, December 4, 2021

Consumers Want to Shop Small This Holiday Season. Here's How to Ensure You Don't Miss Out

Consumers Want to Shop Small This Holiday Season. Here's How to Ensure You Don't Miss Out

Wells Fargo shows that 74 percent of holiday shoppers are willing to spend more to shop at a small business. The reasons shoppers cite include better customer service, the ability to find unique items, and a desire to support their communities.

Monday, November 29, 2021

America is looking down the barrel of population collapse

America is looking down the barrel of population collapse
 a strain on the tax base and intergenerational tension as a smaller proportion of workers has to shoulder the tax and work burden of caring for a larger population of retired people. 

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Upland, California (CA 91786) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders

Upland, California (CA 91786) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders

Claremont, California (CA 91711, 91750) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders

Claremont, California (CA 91711, 91750) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders

Baby Boomers Are Leaving The Workforce To Live Their Best Lives In A Silver Tsunami ‘Great Retirement’ Trend

Baby Boomers Are Leaving The Workforce To Live Their Best Lives In A Silver Tsunami ‘Great Retirement’ Trend
We’ve heard a lot about the “Great Resignation,” the trend of people quitting their jobs to pursue better-paying and more meaningful opportunities. We’re now seeing the “Great Retirement,” a silver tsunami of Baby Boomers leaving the workforce.

Did we get the ‘old-age dependency’ of aging countries all wrong?

Did we get the ‘old-age dependency’ of aging countries all wrong?
In the future, will 75 be the new 65, so that we can define the working age population as those aged 15 to 75?

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Knowledge Workers - Who They Are and What They Do

Knowledge Workers - Who They Are and What They Do
The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, acquired through formal training, to develop products and services. 

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
innovation is an investment in your customer’s future — a human capital investment in who your customers really want or need to become.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

The Real Reason Young Adults Seem Slow to ‘Grow Up’

The Real Reason Young Adults Seem Slow to ‘Grow Up’

Five indicators are commonly understood as the markers of adulthood: finishing one’s education, leaving home, finding work, finding a life partner, and having children. Although many young adults reach the legal age of adulthood before they achieve these five markers, and others do not choose to reach them all, many still consider some combination of these benchmarks to define what it means to be an adult. 

Entrepreneurship - Wikipedia

Entrepreneurship - Wikipedia
and Peter Drucker defined entrepreneurship in terms of risk-taking. The entrepreneur is willing to put his or her career and financial security on the line and take risks in the name of an idea, spending time as well as capital on an uncertain venture. However, entrepreneurs often do not believe that they have taken an enormous amount of risks because they do not perceive the level of uncertainty to be as high as other people do. Knight classified three types of uncertainty:

nnovative entrepreneurs may be more likely to experience what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls "flow". "Flow" occurs when an individual forgets about the outside world due to being thoroughly engaged in a process or activity. Csikszentmihalyi suggested that breakthrough innovations tend to occur at the hands of individuals in that state.[139] Other research has concluded that a strong internal motivation is a vital ingredient for breakthrough innovation.[140] Flow can be compared[by whom?] to Maria Montessori's concept of normalization, a state that includes a child's capacity for joyful and lengthy periods of intense concentration.[141] Csikszentmihalyi acknowledged that Montessori's prepared environment offers children opportunities to achieve flow.[142] Thus quality and type of early education may influence entrepreneurial capability

VC 101: The Angel Investor's Guide to Startup Investing

VC 101: The Angel Investor's Guide to Startup Investing

Friday, March 26, 2021

UMakers — Maker Space in Upland, California

UMakers — Maker Space in Upland, California
See the UMakers maker space in Upland, CA. It is a community club for artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and dreamers. Members help members create "what's next" through digital design & fabrication. Maker space website: umakers.org

CGU Chats

CGU Chats
CGU Chats is a monthly podcast that tells the stories of our incredible group of alumni who are impacting the world every day. It is produced and hosted by the Office of Alumni Engagement at The Claremont Graduate University and its director, Jason Barquero

Be A Maker Club – Learn to 3D print online

Be A Maker Club – Learn to 3D print online

Protecting the Protectors: Alumni Help Local Hospitals ·

Protecting the Protectors: Alumni Help Local Hospitals ·

Right here @ Umakers

Putting the Gen Z Unemployment Rate in Perspective

Putting the Gen Z Unemployment Rate

The Gen Z Unemployment Rate, Compared to Older Generations

 in Perspective

Has a College Education Ceased to Provide a Reasonable ROI?

Has a College Education Ce

Graduate Industrial Design

Graduate Industrial Design

Peter Drucker - Management and Marxism

Peter Drucker - Management and Marxism