Robin Cangie http://robincangie.com Writer. Marketeer. Passionate Generalist. Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:25:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.26 The Enough Economy http://robincangie.com/enough-economy/ http://robincangie.com/enough-economy/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:23:27 +0000 http://robincangie.com/?p=4223 We live in the More Economy. Ask anyone what they want these days, and the answer will almost certainly revolve around having more of something. More money. More time. More respect. More space. More productivity. More innovation. More data. More education. More intelligence. More self-improvement. More sex. More of whatever it is that we feel […]

The post The Enough Economy appeared first on Robin Cangie.

]]> http://robincangie.com/enough-economy/feed/ 0 The Trouble with Native Advertising http://robincangie.com/native-advertising/ http://robincangie.com/native-advertising/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:48:21 +0000 http://robincangie.com/?p=4172 Et tu, New York Times? I learned this week that the 162-year-old American daily newspaper has embraced native advertising, thus becoming the latest casualty in journalism’s misguided quest to reinvent itself by selling out to advertisers. I’d expect this kind of thing from lesser publications, but you, Gray Lady? You of 112 Pulitzer prizes whose […]

The post The Trouble with Native Advertising appeared first on Robin Cangie.

]]> http://robincangie.com/native-advertising/feed/ 0 The Biggest Innovation Mistake You’re Probably Making http://robincangie.com/innovation-mistake/ http://robincangie.com/innovation-mistake/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:49:37 +0000 http://robincangie.com/?p=4160 Your boss comes to you with a problem, and you need to come up with an innovative solution, pronto. What’s the first thing you do? More often than not, I bet you grab a group of your smartest peers, get them together in a room, and have a no-holds-barred brainstorming session to come up with […]

The post The Biggest Innovation Mistake You’re Probably Making appeared first on Robin Cangie.

]]> http://robincangie.com/innovation-mistake/feed/ 4 Teaching Grit to Poor Kids Won’t Magically Make Poverty Disappear http://robincangie.com/teaching-grit-poor-kids-wont-magically-make-poverty-disappear/ http://robincangie.com/teaching-grit-poor-kids-wont-magically-make-poverty-disappear/#comments Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:20:54 +0000 http://robincangie.com/?p=4148 I recently read an article from Brain Pickings on the work of Angela Duckworth, McKinsey consultant turned math teacher turned research psychologist and recipient of the 2013 Macarthur Genius Grant for her inquiries into the relationship between grit and success. Duckworth’s research has consistently found that people with more grit – an admittedly nebulous collection […]

The post Teaching Grit to Poor Kids Won’t Magically Make Poverty Disappear appeared first on Robin Cangie.

]]> http://robincangie.com/teaching-grit-poor-kids-wont-magically-make-poverty-disappear/feed/ 2