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The Global, Human, Strategic Accountant

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The CPA Success blog has a good article on the new Chartered Global Management Accountant designation.   Regular readers will know Being Human is one of our Top 10 Small Business Trends of 2012. This is a joint effort between two large accounting associations, the AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. " While small farms are not going to replace large farms anytime soon, the USDA is projecting that the market for locally grown food will be about $7 billion by 2012, up steeply from $4 billion in 2002.

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The Future of Fun: All the World's a Shareable Stage

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The growing business importance of social sharing and creating performances became very clear to us during our 2012 research project on food trucks. They are tweeting their experience by the minute, instagramming their orders, and if they’re like me, blogging on the go."

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Smartphones are Under-Hyped

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Good blog post from Daniel Pink on despite the fact that Smartphones are really hyped right now, they're also under-hyped.  Key data from this article and lifted directly from Pink's blog post includes: In 2006, smart phones accounted for just 6% of U.S. mobile phones sold that year. Right now the world has 1.4

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Men Not at Work

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  As the chart below from former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers' blog shows , this is not a new trend. And, of course, the 2012 book The End of Men popularized the term which has been used in academics since at least the late 1990s.  And Summers expects the trend not just to continue, but accelerate.

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