Actually, that's not in the Bible (CNN Belief)

I found this article in CNN Belief blog. What do you think?

Actually, that's not in the Bible

By John Blake, CNN

(CNN) – NFL legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the Bible.

“Scripture tells you that all things shall pass,” a choked-up Ditka said after leading his team to only five wins during the previous season. “This, too, shall pass.”

Ditka fumbled his biblical citation, though. The phrase “This, too, shall pass” doesn’t appear in the Bible. Ditka was quoting a phantom scripture that sounds like it belongs in the Bible, but look closer and it’s not there.

Ditka’s biblical blunder is as common as preachers delivering long-winded public prayers. The Bible may be the most revered book in America, but it’s also one of the most misquoted. Politicians, motivational speakers, coaches - all types of people - quote passages that actually have no place in the Bible, religious scholars say.

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What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women

Interesting read in Harvard Business Review (www.hbr.org):

Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women

The finding: There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises.

The research: Professors Woolley and Malone, along with Christopher Chabris, Sandy Pentland, and Nada Hashmi, gave subjects aged 18 to 60 standard intelligence tests and assigned them randomly to teams. Each team was asked to complete several tasks—including brainstorming, decision making, and visual puzzles—and to solve one complex problem. Teams were given intelligence scores based on their performance. Though the teams that had members with higher IQs didn’t earn much higher scores, those that had more women did.

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You Gen-Y?

I have been attending a HR conference in KL these two days, being invited as one of the speakers. My 45-min presentation was quite uneventful – especially when I have a full room of hungry souls looking forward to the lunch break right after my session – though it is nice to know that some did enjoy my 45 minutes.

The one phrase that was uttered by practically every speaker – this one included, sadly – is “Gen-Y”. Much have been said about them and there is no stopping for more.

One of the speakers revealed that he uses internet tools to gauge the Gen-Y thinking and culture. He showed us websites where we can also take a peek, so to speak, into the world of the Gen-Y’s. Which sites you may ask – he came up with Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Wikipedia, Youtube and of course, blogs.

I was slightly incredulous – I am no Gen-Y, but I am in Facebook, Flickr/Photoblog/Stockxchange, Digg/Reddit, Wikipedia, Blogger and Youtube. How then can these sites show us anything in particular relating to the Gen-Y when we very well will meet people two or three times our age there? The internet has certainly been a paradigm shift to the world at large but certainly not limited just to the Gen-Y.

When we view stuff in these sites, they are full of people like us who want our voice to be heard. It doesn’t matter to us if it will only be to a small audience, or if anyone will agree with us. The matter of fact is that we get heard. Is that Gen-Y-ishly enough for you?

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