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Why Millennials Are Immature, Entitled and the Best Hire | Entrepreneur.com

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As it has been pointed out countless times in the media and through anecdotes, millennials in the workplace feel entitled to undeserved promotions and raises, are addicted to their smartphones and job hop every few years. The litany of complaints goes on, but of course no generation is as bad — or as good — as reported: Generation X was more than just a bunch of slackers and Baby Boomers’ strengths shook off their juvenile delinquent label.

In the case of Generation Y, twenty-somethings bring new perspectives and habits to the workplace that add value to their employers, even though those strengths also carry inherent weaknesses.

Whether you’re managing millennials or are a twenty-something yourself, here are the unique and creative talents Gen Y brings to the table, the lessons they still need to learn and the opportunities they have to establish themselves as the next generation of leaders.

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Instagram Ads Are Getting Instant Recall | Adweek

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Instagram ads, just six months old and limited to a select group of 15 brands, are already showing promising results, according to exclusive data given to Adweek by the social photo-sharing site. Internal performance figures on ad partners Taco Bell, Ben & Jerry’s and Hollister provide a peek under the hood of how this platform will fare when it goes wide in late spring. More ads are on the way, thanks to Instagram’s $40 million megadeal with Omnicom.

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Will Beats Help Apple Solve Its Millennial Problem? | Adweek

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Apple’s rumored decision to purchase Beats Electronics for a vast $3.2 billion has puzzled many across the tech sphere. But, there may be a simple answer: Purchasing the Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre empire may give Apple a slice of the millennial pie.

“I got teens, and they don’t listen to anything unless it’s with those headphones. The association that Beats has with teens is it’s cool. Apple is the brand of your mom,” Jonathan Adams, digital agency iCrossing’s head of media in North America, said.

Adams points out that Apple obviously doesn’t have a brand problem and is still profitable. But, it can’t champion that spritely youthful image that wearing a pair of the bombastic headphones, which have become a fashion accessory, has. And, it seems Apple wants its mojo back, as noted by its tepid dip in the Tumblr waters in March.

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Hated Stocks Unlock Market as Analysts Prove No Guide to Gains | Bloomberg

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Nobody saw it coming.

To pick a winning stock at the start of March, you had to find a company that was hated by analysts, adored by short sellers, avoided by institutional buyers and averse to doing just about anything but pay dividends. Shares with those characteristics have generated returns of as much as 5.8 percent even as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stood still, data compiled by Bespoke Investment Group LLC and Bloomberg show.

The unlikelihood of arriving at such a blueprint after a five-year bull market is taking a toll on asset managers, with more than 80 percent of growth and value funds trailing benchmarks in 2014. For investors coming back to the market just as losses in Internet shares approach 20 percent, it’s a lesson on how little past performance says about the future.

via Hated Stocks Unlock Market as Analysts Prove No Guide to Gains – Bloomberg.

Are We at the End of Email? – WorkIntelligent.ly

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You come in, sit down, and log in. Your morning coffee steams while you peruse the dozens of emails that await you. Some are important. Some are even urgent. But most are destined for the trash. You grind through your inbox, replying to some and flagging others for later. And by the time your real work starts, your coffee is cold and you can’t find that one important email your client sent yesterday.

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How We Can Manufacture Forests Like Toyota Makes Cars | WIRED

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For a young industrial engineer, Shubhendu Sharma couldn’t have landed a gig much sweeter than Toyota. As the originator of “just-in-time production,” Toyota pioneered the lean manufacturing movement that helped make it a dominant global automaker. But when a venerable Japanese forestry expert visited the company’s Bangalore factory to plant some greenery, Sharma was captivated by the idea of engineering a new kind of efficiency.

He wondered if Toyota’s wildly successful strategy for quickly and efficiently making cars could be applied to growing trees. The result is a startup called Afforestt.

In pitching his company, Sharma says the world loses about 36 football fields of forest in any given minute

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Wineist Wine Delivery | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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European startup Wineist is disrupting the wine industry with it’s unique way of online wine tasting.

Curated premium wine tasting experience delivered to your home. Enjoy a monthly delivery of new quality wine samples, from the wine cellar to your doorstep. A new way to explore the beautiful world of wine.

Each month wine professionals, from all over the world, choose a new theme and new wines for your tasting pleasure. The Wineist package, is delivered to your home, your office or your friend’s house. Ready to be tasted.

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A Graceful Solar Eruption from NASA! | greenpacks.org

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The phenomenon of solar flares is nothing new. We are already well aware of the 11 year solar cycle that sees this fiery cosmic show ebb and flow and this has been going on for millions of years now.

Currently, we are heading towards another solar maximum; a period that sees a spike up in the solar flare and sunspot activity. And NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has just captured what it dubs as a graceful solar eruption.

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