As U.S. colleges gear up for graduation day, many are announcing who their esteemed commencement speakers will be. Esther Zuckerman at The Atlantic<\/em><\/A> gives us the rundown of some of the more intriguing speakers lined up. A few notables: President Obama will be speaking at Ohio State, Morehouse, and the U.S. Naval Academy. The Dalai Lama will deliver Tulane’s address. University of Virginia students can count on some big laughs with speaker Stephen Colbert. Toni Morrison will grace the Vanderbilt campus. Michael Bloomberg will speak at Stanford, Cory Booker at Yale, and Steve Wozniak at U.C. Berkeley. And Harvard landed Oprah. For a preview of what Harvard grads might expect, see the embedded video from Oprah\u2019s 2008 Stanford commencement speech, where she reflects on harnessing passion, finding meaningful work, giving back, and what we can all learn from failure. Her best advice for gaining a competitive edge in the business world? Trust your gut.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n IT TAKES A STEADY HAND<\/a><\/p>\n \n A tattoo studio in Turkey found an innovative way to use QR codes in job ads. They printed a newspaper ad seeking tattoo artists, which had a faintly-visible QR code. In order to begin the interview process, potential applicants had to first fill in the QR code — very carefully. Those who were skilled enough to complete the task with precision could then scan it to receive the official application form by e-mail. Those who couldn\u2019t? They screened themselves out of the running.\n <\/p>\n \n BABY STEPS<\/a><\/p>\n \n Most organizations don\u2019t appreciate the amount of discovery, learning, and thinking that are necessary for real innovation. As a consequence, they don\u2019t allocate the time for these tasks, don\u2019t assign the right people, and don\u2019t establish the corporate expectations and culture that will help people innovate successfully. This neglect of the “front end” of innovation is one reason why companies have such a hard time creating truly new, non-incremental ideas. Jeffrey Phillips shows why it’s critical for companies to ask a lot of questions about customers and markets before trying to come up with new product ideas. — Andy O\u2019Connell<\/em>\n <\/p>\n \n BONUS BITS:<\/a><\/p>\n \n Infographic: Here are the Names That Get You Into Yale — Or Keep You Out (Gawker)<\/A> \t\t<\/p>\n As U.S. colleges gear up for graduation day, many are announcing who their esteemed commencement speakers will be. Esther Zuckerman at The Atlantic gives us the rundown of some of the more intriguing speakers lined up. A few notables: President Obama will be speaking at Ohio State, Morehouse, and the U.S. Naval Academy. The Dalai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tattoo Studio\u2019s Brilliant Help-Wanted Ad Makes Applicants Carefully Fill In a QR Code (AdWeek)<\/a><\/h4>\n
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