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UP Alumni In The News 9.28.11

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Yesterday marked one month until UP 2011. We can’t believe its already here! We’d love to hear which speaker you are most excited to hear this year!

And, while we’re busy with final preparations for this year’s UP Experience, our UP alumni have been busy pushing their initiatives forward. This past week:

John Gerzema at Inc.com took a look at “Why You Should Hire E-lancers,” citing UP 08 speaker Sir Ken Robinson‘s work on learning that takes place outside of the classroom and what these “citizen-teachers” can offer the rest of us.

As always tech companies are making headlines and UP 10 speaker David Pogue is breaking down the details for us. Don’t miss his analysis of Netflix’ recent announcement that it will be splitting off its DVD service into a separate service, Qwikster.

UP 09 alumni Michio Kaku was in the news this week as physicists around the world commented on an experiment that appeared to call into question Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Get UP 09 speaker Dan Ariely's advice on how to pay employees. Image courtesy of flickr/aresauburn

Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely, who spoke at UP 09, took to BusinessWeek.com this week to talk about, “How to Pay People.”

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The Right Time and Place

Monday, April 27th, 2009

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”   ( Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities.) Does this quotation describe our current circumstances?  Pierre  Baer seems to think so.

Pierre F. Baer is chief executive for Singapore and South Asia of SG Private Banking, the private-wealth-management arm of France’s Société Générale Group.  He  is interviewed in this morning’s online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Mr.  Baer has a unique perspective. He says that NOW is the perfect time for people to choose private banking as a career.  You can read the article here.

Is Pierre Baer crazy?  Perhaps.  He is certainly an optimist.  And he speaks thoughtfully about choosing a career path for the right reasons.   WSJ asked Baer what he is  reading right now.  He answered, “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely.  The author is a professor of behavioral economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shows that the assumption that we behave in rational ways is false. Expectation, emotions, social norms all affect our logical reasoning.”

Dan Ariely will take the stage at The UP Experience in Houston on October 15, 2009.  He has done unique research f rom a unique perspective that is transforming the way influencers around the globe think about  solutions to our current  difficulties.

How will listening to a behavioral economist change your life, add to your  bottom line?  A colleage asked me a similar question recently.  “What RESULTS will come from The UP Experience?“  Perhaps that’s not the right question.  I like this one:  What results will come from  thinking the same ways, from the same perspectives, with the same people ?  As Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”

The  UP Experience offers the opportunity to access a different level of thinking, from leaders in economics, science, politics, the arts and humanities, business, design, technology, and much more.  Let  us know:  what “results” are you expecting?  Did you attend last  year?  What resulted for you from that day?   Have you read Ariely’s book? What are YOU currently reading?

posted by MaryBeth Smith

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