Robot Home-Building

BY: Bianca King

 As we discussed in class many moons ago, about the future. New technology has designed a robot to build a house in the span of three days. The company is based in Australia by the name of Fastbrick Robotics. 

The robot name is Hadrian X after the Roman Emperor Hadrian famous for the wall of fame. This robot is coming to disrupt the home building industry by removing many people from jobs. Hadrian X can lay 1,000 bricks per hour. The robot must have directions from 3-D layout structure to calculate the location and size of each brick. 

Building your own personal network

BY: Timberlyn Hilliard

As we discussed in class networking is an essential part of advancing your career. People often say "It's not what you know, it's who you know“. These days, it’s not enough to keep your head down and produce A-plus work. You need to connect with others, be vocal about your interests and career goals, and build relationships with people you might not otherwise have met.
Here's some advice when trying to network:

1. Be intentional. Networking should always be done with an intention, and not just to collect business cards and be seen. Approach networking as you approach your work: Set a goal for yourself and find a networking opportunity that meets that goal.

2. Have an icebreaker. It can be tough to walk up to a stranger and start conversation, no matter how confident you are. But having a line ready to go in order to generate conversation is crucial. I have found much success with a simple, “What brings you here to this event?” It works every time—it goes straight to the point and builds on your first common interest: that fact that you’re both there for a reason!

3. Be open about your career goals. Being confident and speaking up about you future goals could intrest someone around you that could potentially become a business partner in the long run.

4. Follow up. If you have a great conversation with someone at a networking event and exchange contact information, send him or her a note and remark on your interaction. Mention something specific you enjoyed about speaking with the person. If you offered to connect him or her with someone else, follow through. Networking isn’t over when you walk out of the event!

Millennials and Risk Takin

BY: Taylor Farmon

Millennials are known for many things such as being civic-oriented, conscious, and the largest, most diverse generation in history. But analysts say this generation is missing one thing, their willingness to take risks.

To some, this is seen as a problem. Studies show that our youth puts us in the best position to take risks but we look for security instead. Economically, millennials struggle and cannot afford to risk it all on uncertainty. However, risk avoidance and cautiousness does not help stimulate the economy, innovate technology, or produce many entrepreneurs.

According to a survey by Babson College, 41% of 25 to 34 year olds state that their biggest roadblock to starting a business is the "fear of failure." In today's business world, most would say to "embrace failure" rather than seeing it as a fear but not to millennials. Studies show we prefer to get it right the first time rather than stumbling and starting again.

Check out Barbara Corcoran's speech at Entrepreneur's Growth conference. Although it's fairly long, I encourage you to choose at random five minutes to watch and you'll want to watch more. Her words are both inspirational and motivational and she encourages people to put themselves into situations where they might fail and then learn how to bounce back.

2 min clip of speech

Whole Speech

Reviewing the importance of ethics

BY: Amanda Gordon

I decided to go back on the topic previously discussed in class on business ethics. I plan to be a well-rounded entrepreneur and in order to be a successful business woman, this topic stuck out the most to me. Furthermore, knowing the importance of ethics is highly praised within the business industry weather it's your own company or you're in corporate America. If you're serious about fostering ethical behavior throughout your organization, you can turn these three principles into implementable means to communicate that effectively.

In this way, ethics won't simply be relegated to your HR department, but it will pervade management at all levels. Setting the right example, stress the importance of means, and framing ethics to highlight prevention, are the three principles that will lead you to success.

There are many ways for one to learn ethical norms, at home, at school, in church, or in other social settings. Although most people acquire their sense of right and wrong during childhood, moral development occurs throughout life and human beings pass through different stages of growth as they mature. Ethical norms are so ubiquitous that one might be tempted to regard them as simple commonsense. On the other hand, if morality were nothing more than commonsense, then why are there so many ethical disputes and issues in our society today?

When most people think of ethics, they think of rules for distinguishing between right and wrong, such as the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"), a code of professional conduct like the Hippocratic Oath ("First of all, do no harm"), a religious creed like the Ten Commandments ("Thou Shalt not kill..."), or a wise aphorisms like the sayings of Confucius. This is the most common way of defining "ethics": norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Growing up these are the sayings I heard from everyone around me that made me get back in line when I was getting off track. They reminded you of your true will and to always be good to others no matter what.

Below is a video, which I found pretty interesting and well stated about the ethics in business.