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Psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success. She left a high-flying job in consulting in return for a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school, then discovered something about the power of true passion of perseverance….

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Insight: How compounding pharmacies rallied patients to fight regulation
Reuters reports on the dangers of pharmacies that mix or alter drugs without proper federal oversight. As it stands, the safety and efficacy of drugs made by these “compounding pharmacies” make for red alerts. Dr. Steven Galson, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has shed some light on the risks from an industry that’s now…

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Lean Six Sigma – Reality or a Myth?
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” —John F. Kennedy It seems at every conference, symposium, or other gathering of thought leaders for higher learning where the topic is Lean Six Sigma, many of the attendees—and almost all of…

Creative destruction
The Economist reports on new development taking place in the sphere of higher education. Coined as one of the great successes of the welfare state, what was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement. Now a new revolution has begun, based on 3 impacting factors: rising costs, changing demand and disruptive technology….


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