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I read a blog post today from the HBR Blog Network entitled “Solving Gen Y’s Passion Problem” written by a Generation Y member, Cal Newton. He notes several sources that have called this generation “Generation Me”, “The Worst Generation” and “Generation Why Bother”. They are often characterized as “pampered”, “high maintenance” and “perhaps . . . too happy at home checking Facebook”.

“Generation Next” – Give Passion A Chance to Grow

By Anne Kohler on September 20, 2012 Competency Based Talent Management

What If Your GPS Tells You to Turn Around?

By Crystal Jones on September 13, 2012 Blog-News U can Use, Miscellaneous

Last week I took a nice, relaxing vacation. We didn’t want to spend a lot of money on anything fancy, so my husband and I packed up the Jeep, loaded the dogs, and headed out. We stayed with family in a beautiful house in rural Kentucky, or what…

Atul Gawande just wrote a piece in The New Yorker in which he applies The Cheesecake Factory (TCF - restaurant chain) model to the healthcare system. He cites soaring costs, mediocre service, unreliable quality and significant variability in outcomes/results as the dominant attributes of the current medical system in the USA. Sounds like the typical Supply Chain/Sourcing issues that almost all of us are trying to deal with on a daily basis.

45 Million People Are Blind today!! Cheesecake Factory Might Be the Answer? Part 2

By Dalip Raheja on September 6, 2012 Adoption, Blog-News U can Use, Sourcing

Atul Gawande just wrote a piece in The New Yorker in which he applies The Cheesecake Factory (TCF – restaurant chain) model to the healthcare system. He cites soaring costs, mediocre service, unreliable quality and significant variability in outcomes/results as the dominant attributes of the current medical system in the USA. Sounds like the typical Supply Chain/Sourcing issues that almost all of us are trying to deal with on a daily basis.

45 Million People Are Blind today, and 80% of them could be cured through surgery (36 million if you’re looking for your calculator). Oh, of course, most of these people cannot afford the surgery, don’t know about it, cannot physically be where eye care is available, and so on and so on. The answer? Reverse Innovation (RI) – a term coined by Jeffrey Immelt and Vijay Govindarajan. The basic premise of RI is that all innovation cannot flow from the developed to the developing world.