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in the eye of climate change. people. want to use today their future. teetotal dot com for the major cities for the making. clear. how to succeed in business is their recipe for success is intelligence the main fact that youthfulness ambition or is it about prove you know getting
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a leg up from your family will be taking a closer look at the things you might need to get ahead in the business world 1st of all we need to look at what those people who do well in their jobs have been common it depends on the workplace but in an office or a research environment it's important to have good language skills a fair dose of curiosity some creativity and an ability to absorb information and its relevance in short it helps to be smart but what if your overly intelligent it's not always a blessing my colleague christiane puts ellie has met up with some gifted young people and their families. some highly intelligent people do amazing things play the piano like a pro as a child skip years at school while saul's math problems in the blink of an eye gifted people often school. highly on i.q.
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tests most people have an intelligence quotient of around $100.00 only around 2 percent of the population has an i.q. higher than $130.00. so how does the education system deal with them. see han and her brother philip or her sing for a concert. that last performance on a cruise ship was a success. and . we thought it would be a flop and nobody would come and listen in fact a 1000 people showed up for the concert our binding contract. tested with an i.q. of 143 she skipped 4 grades she solves math problems in
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a matter of seconds that others chew on for much longer. easy as few as 50. percent of the sex. little brother philip has an i.q. of 142 he's already skipped 2 grades at school he also has big plans. as i want to play the piano conduct and compose all at the same time. i've already conducted from the piano and it's not so hard. can you socially out. with their parents they travel the world doing concert tours together phillips still goes to school. graduated from high school at 14 and is about to complete her bachelor's in music in 0. their parents to both achieve
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high scores on i.q. tests they devote a lot of time to supporting their gifted children and their busy lives the family found that school didn't provide what they thought the children needed. surely or for that school rarely challenges gifted children. makes them a bit crazy in some just give up unless they have the good fortune to be able to skate grades and get their teeth into something interesting. or they find what they need a home school doesn't give the mind what it needs. if they do get that at home and they get support and recognition that's an important aspect as well. things were a bit different in the family. daughter yasmin is also highly intelligent but it took a while for that to be recognized. still she wasn't exactly typical for girls of
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her age as if she was always more interested in technology than dolls. yasmeen is the 1st member of her family to go to university a secondary school only went to 10th grade and wasn't focused on preparing students to study so she switched schools for the last 2 years. the 1st school with set up to prepare students to learn a trade doing apprenticeship we were taught how to write applications but i realized that was not what i wanted most. so she completed high school and went on to study among her intellectual strengths logical and mathematical thinking. as though he has it this is the number to the right squared minus one same here. and same here number squared minus one. for her degree in
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mechatronics and information technology she's designing a flying wing glider. it's good preparation for a career in aerospace engineering. she enjoys the teamwork and gets on fine with her colleagues. but she is familiar with a number of not always flattering preconceptions about the highly intelligent for example that they don't like small talk never heard of her that i really did have a problem with that when i was younger i never enjoyed it and never understood why anyone would do that but once i started working and studying i realized it's actually quite important as a service that i'm not a cliché very intelligent people have so many talents they get easily distracted as the thought of them and well when you're young it can be hard to choose a profession and it can be hard to make a decision because there are so many fascinating things you could do. and in other
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times i am yet another preconception they know so much they come across as arrogant and i find it for him to have come when people don't get the things that you yourself find easy to grasp and you have to be able to bridge that gap in a lot of i think from. the kristoffer a school in koenig's winter near bonn has had a stream for gifted children for nearly 40 years it uses pedagogical strategies involving teamwork interdisciplinary studies acceleration and enrichment to challenge the students this is one of several clubs in which the kids work together on complex projects. many of the students felt like outsiders in their previous school. does understand matter. i was always bored especially in math classes. while the others had to go over the material again and again i would get it fairly quickly so i got a bit bored by yet hard once i'd done an assignment i'd go on and do some more or
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do something again even though i could understand it all when i was country. this is the robotics club. they design and build their own robots and program them as well. well that's how much of. our robot is practicing kicking the ball into the goal. the ball emits infrared signals. and the sensor in the robot picks them up front. that lets it locate the bone which it then kicks. education research is estimate that in germany schools provide only about half of highly gifted students with an education suited to their needs. hampel yeah that we have a class for gifted children in each year it's made up of children who tests have confirmed on gifted and are also high achievers that means pupils who get good
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grades are highly motivated and have demonstrated through the way they study and behave with others that they're the right material for the class these budding scientists are going to present their work at a robotic olympics until now german schools haven't systematically provided support for gifted pupils but education that brings out the best in bright kids will help them in the complex workplace of the future and contribute to society as a whole. i'm sure you've heard this before but i thought i should point out that some of the most gifted and successful entrepreneurs were college dropouts bill gates. steve jobs just to name a few but remember not everyone who makes it in business is highly gifted and being super intelligent doesn't automatically mean you've got a head start today stuff founders need other qualities to get ideas funding to turn an idea into a business but most of all they need energy ambition and courage. met up with
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2 young entrepreneurs who embody all of that. meet the 20 year old founder of pick up. the presumable. and his 20 year old co-founder along with one of their employees the 2 bosses were still at school when they set up their own business they had an idea and just went with it. those of you can find orders from when you're at an event and there's a startup entrepreneur on the stage making a life pitch as we've done people think our lives are just about going to cool events or meeting cool people but it's not like that it's a lot of work people underestimate that startup founders work very very hard and as the heart of their company is developing an amp to help high school students find out what kind of university course might suit them. users are asked about their interests for example and their personality is also taken into account the founders
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aim to offer a more comprehensive approach than similar apps roy's under is convinced that his young bosses on to something new. i didn't tell my mother. i just told them i got accepted i also got accepted to bigger companies but after talking with the hospital. via skype and. hearing about this specific project that is about education. i just felt that this is the right place for me. the 2 founders grew up in a small village but now based in berlin germany is lively a startup scene. they think this is the best place for optimizing that for young people. we faced quite a lot of hurdles particularly when it came to analysis and development. psychologist
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so user experience specialists we had to spend a bit more time. getting familiar with those topics before we could get the 1st prototypes together. it's also up to us to make sure we earn money with it too many people are interested in our target group businesses and universities for example we're currently working together with 20 partner universities who want to communicate with prospective students to find out if they'll be happy and stay the course. the past started making money by selling used to look bicycles that they did and sold with a 1000 mark. later they organize parties in their village to fund their c. capital. they share an apartment to save money and work long hours to help finance their start up they also develop internet presences for of the companies are they going to raise their own now in a few weeks time. off you feel about young we developed
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a lot of variations and had many trial runs before we got to where we are now and we had a lot of fundamental like we said if things continue like this will be a problem problem solved problem problem solved then that's a really cool way to work and that's how it was for us. you have a lot of ups and downs but it's fun. and you tell yourself we've gone through a lot worse seen worse things. is a lot i got a lot of. you have to try to separate your home and work life a bit. we share a flat so we work together all day long we have to try and switch off a bit even though it's difficult. to sit at the table and have dinner together and then we end up back at our laptops and then it's 2 am all of a sudden you go to bed and when you wake up you're still thinking about work that's not everyone's cup of tea but i quite like it we're still young we can take it.
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was. going. luxury timeouts he says it clears his head and it makes him more focused and more creative but. we believe we found our passion and if it doesn't work out then we'll take it from there but even if i knew that everything was going to go belly up tomorrow then it would still have been worth that simply for the experience that. the 2 entrepreneurs are happy with the path they've taken and that's despite the risks. well today's stand ups that many focus on online work or taking of asians there are still the traditional trades that require a different set of skills like plumbing carpentry and construction and business is
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booming in those sectors but fewer and fewer young people are interested in getting trained for those kinds of jobs and that's a big problem here in germany. construction work goes on in all kinds of weather. and. these jobs are strenuous than they're unpopular this building site has too few workers it's a problem for the sector as a whole which is struggling to find new trainees. that awful state when we don't have enough young people are what i call the mid-range around 20 or 21 they don't have the stamina i don't want it was all a condition they're used to getting everything from their parents but here they have to do it on their own some of them lack logical thinking or the spatial awareness for the job he's on his fortune was by just walking alone. this is a new waste water pumping facility for the berlin water utility around 40 builders
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and iron workers are employed on the site. the lack of trained workers is a growing problem their boss explains orders are up and he could hire more than 20 people on the spot but he's had to turn down contracts because he's understaffed. sales are highly tripled in recent years in the past 2 years we've grown from $50.00 to $80.00 employees off the top of our the resources on the labor market are simply exhausted and an aging society is also gradually having an impact. who. headhunters have even come to the construction site to will away his workers they become a valuable commodity to keep them fun here's has raised wages in recent years his employees now earn between $16.18 euro's an hour. that's body
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challenged to get thought it was a matter of money on the lean years and after that wage levels had fallen so far that it was no longer attractive to work in construction. that's been. compensated step wise by in the past few years. but the industry still has a bad image and eyeballs and. and that's not only true of construction many of the trades have a bad reputation fewer and fewer young people are choosing to get training in professions such as heating and plumbing fitter. with. this company currently has 30 trainees learning to install and maintain heating and sanitary systems. i want to hear from them why they chose this particular profession most of their classmates at school prefer to go to university. problem it is those people get this image from youtube or social media that they
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have to do this or that or make so and so much money or they only want to work with computers and not to physically strenuous work or get their hands dirty. and i can't spend the whole day sitting on a chair i couldn't bear that. one of the trainees came to germany as a refugee from senate on back home he worked as a baker now he's in the 1st year of his training and is still struggling with the german way of doing things. he is working here is a little complicated because you have to follow the rules it's a bit more complicated then in senegal this is. the trainees get a lot of attention the company provides extra tutoring and 2 employees have been assigned exclusively to them. this plumbing firm also has many orders but too few workers it's become more and more difficult to find suitable applicants the owner is
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concerned about his trades bad reputation. this is. it's gotten to the point where lots of people have a bad image of our profession i call it gas water in beautiful bathrooms but were seen as dealing with filth and being dirty in stinking. women it's not like that anymore and each of our service technicians have a laptop that there's a lot of electronics involved and they have to know a lot about technology. the workers on the construction site don't worry too much about their image they say they're proud of their profession and what they accomplish every day. for us it's a way of life even wanted to have done and we get some people who come and think they would get it shown to them quickly and they can do it but not everyone can you have to really want it. germany has
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a shortage of trades people i'm surprised that not enough people want to do these jobs despite respectable pay. if this trend continues it will eventually affect everyone. so the german firms are trying to address the skills shortage by raising wages as you heard there and looking abroad for workers now what if you were confronted with the task of running your own business or if you were in the running so to speak becoming a boss automatically by inheriting a company from your parents but suppose there are several children who could take over we take a look at one particular german family business tax game well can cope. wants to have everything organized when he passes on the leadership of the company but he has 2 children and that means making a choice. is
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a german clothing manufacturer that has been owned didn't run by its founding family 1st century. the current patriarch both gun corp and his wife elizabeth have 2 children both gotten jr. and bonita. sr says only one of them will take over the company the question is which one the family eat breakfast together every morning will that tradition continue once one of the other child takes over. it would be nice if we were to continue to eat together and spend time together especially as we all live here. and when you want. to give up make sports and leisure wear underwear and nightwear it has a workforce of $1200.00 it also supplies companies clubs and schools with customized clothing everything from dying to cutting to sewing is done at its own factory in
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boyle adding in south west germany it powers its production facilities from renewable resources to game markets its products through its 46 shops across the country as well as online. both gang sr takes great pride in the company's quality . that one that puts it made in germany. both can go up as confident that both of his children have the wherewithal to run the company after him casting their cards. there will be no casting to see who is better they mustn't sloth be up to assuming the responsibility of oxen zein the key thing is what parts they might follow. let's say for example my daughter were to marry and move away from that would disqualify her from running 3 game a game of out of. but if they both remain nearby there will be no way to avoid the difficult choice and talk to my daughters in charge of the e-commerce.
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she's done excellent work integrating this new element into our business. but she built up her department with a great deal of determination and. i'd say that's an important talent to have in this business bonita grew up as head of a marketing team and oversees 3 gamers online presence it's been expanding and is set to continue growing the online shop is one way to reach customers in other countries. online on line has grown a lot over the past few years and now accounts for about 15 percent to sales a year and we're also expanding b. to be on line we do corporate fashion for hospitals doctors and companies and we're setting up a separate online shop for them. this was going to junior has been introducing new technologies in production including tablets they provide their sewing staff
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information about the tasks at hand how many items of clothing they have to make and which cut pieces to use. expect efficiency to improve by up to 10 percent because things will just be much clearer we're already seeing an increase in performance they cannot check how much they get done each day. that's made it quicker and easier for them to fix things if they're doing something incorrectly there's more transparency all around. and. my son is great at motivating people especially when it comes to accepting innovation at the company. and that's very important in. the groups feel a strong sense of responsibility toward their employees and talk about the game as a corporate family among the groups themselves family cohesion is an important
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principle. my brother and i get along very well and complement each other it doesn't feel like we're rivals we're pretty cool about the whole thing. one possibility is that the child who doesn't become boss could assume another significant role in the company but the family home will definitely go to the boss . the city filled with child who takes over the company will also get the house which is right across the road from the factory. group says that should she be the anointed one she redecorate the family home from many family firms it can be hard to find a worthy successor to the boss here it seems there are 2 of them. in my family to be 4 kids to choose from that to be fought that's all for me and the rest of the made team join us next time until then check us out online you can
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