From Brainware
June 28, 2010 at 12:22 am
Because of labor interests on the left and anti-tax folks on the extreme right, nothing gets done.
--Eli Broad, L.A. philanthropist commenting on the California dysfunction
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June 22, 2010 at 11:35 am
Reading about General McChrystal's lack of political smarts, I could not but think of the dustup between Truman and MacArthur. The issues were largely different, but in one sense, ... (
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June 20, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I was surprised to read, this morning, that according the U.S. Census Bureau, fathers are the caregivers for about one-quarter of the nation’s preschoolers. I ... (
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June 19, 2010 at 11:34 pm
The headlines about jobs are pretty stark, already two years into this recession. We’re learning that even when the market recovers, some jobs won’t return, that short ... (
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From Brainware
June 18, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Sitting with a group of technology managers, discussing the difficulty of working with their internal clients, one member of the group was quick to point out a certain client ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 11:24 pm
The research has been around for a long time. It has to do with our looks as members of the human race. Most by now know that a large majority of U.S. presidents were taller ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 9:05 am
For many college students, the cost of a four-year university degree and living away from home may place an impossible barrier in front of them. Now, there's a way around that ... (
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From Brainware
June 17, 2010 at 12:01 am
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a timely article on the difficulty some/many have relaxing on vacation. As the article suggests, relaxing on vacation is hard work.
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From Brainware
June 16, 2010 at 9:55 am
If you'd like new insight into how to vent your spleen with fascinating venom and deeply felt hostility, I suggest you skim a few of the more than 110 comments attached to Alan ... (
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From Brainware
June 14, 2010 at 2:58 pm
It's rare to read a review as glowing as Dwight Garner's which had me from the start with its title, "To Err is Human. And How! And Why!", and was published June ... (
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From Brainware
June 10, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Nearly all effective and successful leaders have had significant mentoring at key points in their life and career. As a result mentoring ought to be a high agenda for the ambitious. ... (
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From Brainware
June 10, 2010 at 7:28 am
I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers.
--Steve Jobs, speaking at the Wall Street Journal's digital conference in California, June 2
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From Brainware
June 7, 2010 at 12:24 am
This is a question that surfaces periodically among new clients. The answer? It all depends on how you define "personality." Personality differs from skills or ... (
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From Brainware
June 4, 2010 at 9:22 am
US employers added 431,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. Most economists had expected more than 500,000 new jobs, but. ... (
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From Brainware
June 4, 2010 at 8:22 am
Israel and the rest of the world seem to be speaking dissonant moral languages.
--Yossi Klein Halevi, Fellow at hte Sahlom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
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From Brainware
June 3, 2010 at 10:02 am
If you're watching the economy--and your own future--here's the information on the best barometer.
WASHINGTON — New claims for US unemployment benefits fell to 453,000 for ... (
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From Brainware
June 2, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I've set my title question up for the obvious answer. NO! I was not surprised to see research supporting that conclusion. An MSNBC blogger, Eve Tahmincioglu, says that CareerXroads, ... (
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From Brainware
June 1, 2010 at 5:15 pm
How else can I make sense of what's been happening over the last few months?
In his reply to Obama's State of the Union Address in January of this year, Bobby Jindal, governor ... (
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From Brainware
May 29, 2010 at 8:01 am
This morning's NYTimes has a lovely story of the U.S. military's medical services in Afghanistan. Although the U.S. provides care for Afghans wounded as a result of the war, ... (
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From Brainware
May 28, 2010 at 7:58 am
Nothing has gone wrong or unanticipated. We did believe we did pump some mud down the well bore. We obviously pumped a lot of mud out the riser.
--Doug Suttles, to ... (
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From Brainware
May 25, 2010 at 12:34 pm
If you were among the 24% of 2010 college grads fortunate enough to get a job, what kind of salary did you get? An article on 'Glimmers of Hope' for Grads in this morning's ... (
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From Brainware
May 23, 2010 at 8:31 am
Maureen Dowd of the Times is one of those hilarious Irish Catholic feminists who can be a great deal of fun. Her ability to insert the knife and twist it for an entire column ... (
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From Brainware
May 22, 2010 at 1:10 pm
The latest issue of the Academy of Management Learning and Education reports that over the past 25 years, college students in the U.S. have scored steadily higher on tests for ... (
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From Brainware
May 21, 2010 at 12:08 am
I can't think of anything else I'd rather do, which is a problem, because I might have to do something else.
--Juliana Pankow just graduated from Columbia Teachers College. ... (
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From Brainware
May 20, 2010 at 10:45 am
For the first time in a month, unemployment insurance claims were up. For the week ended May 15, there were 471,000 claims filed, in contrast to 446,000 the previous week. ... (
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