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If, like me, you watched in fascination the finale of the mega-popular reality show, America’s Biggest Loser, you’d have been struck by the fact that here were fifteen of what I’ll call America’s biggest sinners as far as overeating, weak will and lack of focus in life, are concerned, and yet, they were all managing to do the seemingly impossible.
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The year that’s about to close is probably going to be most noted for the number and depth of social media disasters we saw it give us. From Gilbert Gottfried losing his gig as the voice of the Aflac duck after posting jokes about the tsunami, in Japan, on his Twitter account to "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher being rebuked after tweeting to the 8.5 million followers of his @aplusk account, "How do you fire Jo Pa?” there was a plethora of celebrities, personalities and brands getting it wrong, and doing so spectacularly and in public.
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Disruptive technologies are technologies which change the way something is done so drastically that its business model no longer makes any kind of sense.
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The recent PayPal Social Media PR disaster is one of those moments which, from a distance, are hard to understand. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, for a company which deals with people and their money to be so unyielding to reason and incapable of actually examining the precise facts of the case in question?
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It’s such a simple question. Right? We would like to believe that it has an obvious answer. Someone’s poor because they did not get a great education, did not have every opportunity available to them, their parents did not encourage them, their teachers ignored them, their employer did not help them develop, someone, in short, somewhere, did not do their job right. The system let them down.
Read more: Why Are People Poor? Causes of Poverty, Inequality & Economic Barriers