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Top 10 Lies from Fraudulent Investment Promoters, written 16 hours ago, Posted in Money Matters Fraudulent investment promoters are glib and resourceful. They may tell you that they have high-level financial connections; that they're privy to inside information; that they'll guarantee the investmen...

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Ultrasound to give feel to games, written 1 day ago, ?? De zoektocht naar 3D beleving bij computerspellen heeft een nieuw mechanisme opgeleverd: naast de vibrerende controllers en andere apparaten is het Takayuki Iwamoto gelukt 3D... Read more on (lees meer op) Extend Limits

CEO Turnover Falling, written 2 days ago, It may be hot in August, but it was apparently a little cooler in corporate boardrooms this year than in years past. According to Liberum Research, which tracks executive turnover for investors among all publicly traded companies, the number of C-suiters who...

Still more on event processing, written 3 days ago, There have been some great posts on event processing recently. Tim Bass started it off with CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA and got a ton of really interesting comments - well worth reading. Mark Palmer responded with Smart Order Routing and ...

Why Don't You Love Me Anymore?, written 2 days ago, We've all been in one of those volatile relationships at some point in our lives. Whether it was with a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife… you fell completely head over heels for them almost instantaneously. Let's say it was a boyfriend. He ...

Governance Thinking - Structure of Program Management Governance, written 3 hours ago, Governance Thinking - Structure of Program Management Governance (#1 in the series Structure of Program Management Governance) By Robert Prieto This is the first part of a five part series looking at the governanc...

Authorities of the Manager, written 1 day ago, "So, it's not me, but, Joe is supposed to motivate his team?" Alicia asked. "No, that is not Joe's role, as a supervisor," I replied. "Okay, so if he is NOT supposed to motivate his team, how IS Joe supposed to get the work done...

Survey Says--Economic Slump Hits HR Departments, written 1 day ago, A warm "Thank you" to the 2,800 HRDA readers who responded to our recent survey concerning the effect of the economic slump on your organizations and your departments! Here is a summary of the results

Thinking Differently about Business Downturn, written 18 hours ago, Think Differently: Long-term success is not only determined by how well a company handles a downturn, but also by its foresight in preparing for the next upturn. In the midst of a recession, corporate leaders are often forced to res...

It's the Silly Season - Again, written 2 days ago,     Unlike the British, we drag out the national elections until everyone (mostly) is simply worn out. The result seems to be that we become susceptible to professional messaging. Advertising works, otherwise they wouldn't spend money on it.   ...

Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk.

iPhone app - the Swiss knows their trains, written 21 hours ago, Honestly they do, and I do love their trains as well. So when I saw a SBB/CFF/FFS (Swiss Federal Railways in three languages that) iPhone app I just had to test it. And it's free so why not... Expecting the usual clean uncluttered Swis...

How to Implement Your Strategic Plan, written 3 weeks ago, Execute, execute, execute! That sentence (fragment) is terrifying on so many levels. Not only does it bring to mind pictures of being blindfolded, given a last cigarette, and placed in front of a firing squad, but even more scary it means on...

Public intellectuals and the source of ideas, written 2 days ago, I haven't linked to Lilia Efimova in a while, but she continues to write about her PhD process and say things that I think have to do with the larger questions of how people work together (one element being knowledge management).&...

Zoho becomes a millionaire, written 3 weeks ago, Wish this were my retirement account. It's not. It is the growth of Zoho subscribers. They are adding 80,000 or so a month and just hit the million mark.Why should you care?Zoho has a very good and very extensive web...

Flow - Revisited, written 2 days ago, Over the weekend, I picked up the one CD version of the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It's highly abridged and just a summary, but it was a nice reminder of the eight characteristics of the flow experience:
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Thoughts on innovation.

Lastest Discussion of 8th Waste, written 1 week ago, Over at NWLean there's been quite a riff on the 8th waste. Eventually, the contributors concluded that recreating knowledge is the one true 8th waste. While it's hard to argue with any of the writers' arguments, getting at the roots of that waste ...