Finanical Wednesday advice from Jean Chatzky 2010 calendar

Before you make a donation, ask what cause is benefiting and what percent of your gift gets passed on.

Sunday Quote

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

--Kristen Hunter (Lattany)

Kristen Hunter was a well known Pennsylvanian, African American writer. Works including, God Bless the Child, takes a serious look on issues such as race and gender.

Working Effectively with Difference

Had a class yesterday entitled: Working Effectively with Difference. the facilitators, Dan Distelhorst and Gordon Watanabe, were entertaining and presented a full and 'different' look on diversity.
Key points pointed out in handout from group performance (Scott Page's "The Difference" is referenced as the research source):

• 'Difference' primarily refers to a diversity of perspectives and ways of approaching a situation.
• Diverse teams tend to outperform homogenous teams- even if those homogenous teams have stronger individual performers.
• Not only does difference trump sameness, difference also trumps ability.
• Well facilitated teams, with lots of thinking and value differences, will outperform homogeneous teams but will have more conflict.
• There is a connection between difference of thinking and identitly difference (e.g. gender, ethnicity, national culture, etc.) so recruiting people with diverse identities enhances group performance.

It was a great class-all corperate enviroments should have this approuch to this topic.

Finanical Wednesday advice from Jean Chatzky 2010 calendar

When investing, conside I bonds, which are inflation-protected savings bonds. Tey'll pay no interest until you redeem them (and you owe no taxes until then) but the payout increases to keep pace with the cost of living.

My Bone! 01-03-11

Sunday Quote

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

-- Charles F Kettering

Charles Kettering was an inventor, engineer and businessman. He is best known for being the founder of Delco and his involvment with General Motors and DuPont Chemical Company. Becuase of Mr Kettering here, we have the luxury of air conditioning and colorful cars.

project for week of 12-13-10

The other week I went out with Erica for lunch. We ended up walking down to B&N and looking at the craft section. I found this amazing book about a guy that created a skull everyday for a full year. After looking at his site and some other 365 project I have to admit I was envious of the creativity that these individuals experienced. So I sit up my extra room as a craft room. my first project was creating paper doll models. I first draw them on normal paper, and then traced them on a thicker blue paper. These are going to be the templates for a larger project I have in mind.