Seize Your Leadership Day: Articles And Leadership’s Future

Miki Saxon — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:30:41 +0000

As most of you know I write a series on Thursday called Leadership’s Future that looks at education, parenting, kids, Millennials, etc. In the course of my reading I see a articles that would be of interest, but I can’t fit them all in, so I thought that today I’d offer up some of the good ones that I haven’t had time to feature.

Assuming you live on this planet you’re aware that there’s a recession going on, so what’s happening in the world of youth and parents?

Business Week had a great article on Growing Up In A Recession, while the NY Times says that parents finally are figuring out that whatever doesn’t have to be new and are opting for hand-me-downs and cutting off their trust-fund babies. Good grief, they might have to make it on their own!

Do you tweet? Some college professors are finding uses for Twitter in their teaching, although enhancing spelling isn’t one of them; speaking of education, some schools are delivering sex ed via cell phone.

How fair or valuable are anonymous teacher rating sites, such as Rate My Professors or Professor Performance, some teachers don’t aren’t concerned, but others may not be so sanguine.

Multiple studies by professors at a variety of universities show that having interracial roommates reduces prejudice. Not that surprising, it’s hard to hate a real individual vs. a hypothetical stereotype.

Finally, there’s a new texting champion (control your enthusiasm) who practiced by sending 14,000 texts a month. Isn’t that thrilling?

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Congress Votes For Rudeness With Their Thumbs

Miki Saxon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:30:56 +0000

I am revolted by the lack of respect shown by so many of our Congressional (so-called) leaders.

Warning: If you don’t like rants feel free to navigate to a different (brilliant) post on this blog, because what follows is definitely a rant—in spite of the lack of excessive profanity and personal attacks.

I prefer to read the full text reprints of items such as Obama’s State of the Union speech because of my hearing, so, thankfully, I didn’t witness the disgusting performance of our sworn ‘leaders’ who chose to text and tweet throughout Obama’s speech.

And my anger has nothing to do with Obama. I really don’t give a damn who holds that office, the office itself deserves respect, whether I voted for the holder or not (and I did). I would feel the same way if it had been Bush, Clinton or any of the other 40 warm bodies who have sat in the Oval Office.

What the hell is going on here and around the globe? The world has gone meme and it’s not just the kids.

Granted, I don’t tweet, but I’m sure there is actually useful information being passed around beyond ‘I’m going upstairs to the bathroom now’.

There doesn’t even seem to be responsibility for tweets—blame it on a staffer or pull everything.

Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s page read “Aggie basketball game is about to start on espn2 for those of you that aren’t going to bother watching pelosi smirk for the next hour,”…Minutes later, that message disappeared, replaced with the disclaimer: “Disregard that last tweet from a staffer.” That note was also deleted after several minutes.”

Silly me, I’m such an innocent I thought people actually did their own tweeting, instead of paying someone. (Note to self, talk to marketing guy about tweeting for me.)

We grouse about Gen Y being disrespectful and rude, unlike their elders. Well, it looks as if their elders are catching down.

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Congress Votes For Rudeness With Their Thumbs