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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 16, 2010 at 11:43 pm
One of the continuing inequities in the American workforce is the paygap between women and men. Even though women, on average, tend to be better educated than men, those women ... (
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May 16, 2010 at 3:32 pm
One of the continuing inequities in the American workforce is the paygap between women and men. Even though women, on average, tend to be better educated than men, those women ... (
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May 14, 2010 at 7:30 am
Periodically I look for an analysis of our nation's fiscal state from someone I trust on such matters. Here's what Paul Krugman, the Nobelist, has to say about that very subject in ... (
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From Brainware
May 13, 2010 at 11:57 pm
People say you can't change somebody who's older than such and such an age, because they're set in their ways. It's not true. If you can find a story, if you can make them ... (
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From Brainware
May 13, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Michael Schrage, an MIT research fellow, just published a blog on the foibles of intuition from which I've created the above title. Unlike your author, Schrage also puts ... (
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May 12, 2010 at 8:23 am
Tom Frank, probably the sole progressive on the Wall Street Journal opinion staff, has an enlightening article on "industry self-regulation" in this morning's Journal. ... (
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May 10, 2010 at 11:55 pm
There's nothing new about companies wanting to find and keep the best talent. The East India Company which was founded in 1600, actually used competitive examinations to recruit ... (
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May 9, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Well, I guessed right. See my blog on Kagan and the need for political ability. There's an important lesson in the nomination of Kagan, formerly prof at the University of ... (
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May 7, 2010 at 4:49 pm
At last. There's a lot to be pleased about with the the April Labor report which shows that the economy added 290,000 jobs. Government economists were hoping for a figure ... (
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May 7, 2010 at 7:40 am
Elena is very good at reading the lay of the land, at having a sense of who is where on what issue and what the art of the possible might be, who can be influenced, who cannot. ... (
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From Brainware
May 6, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination.
--C.K. Prahalad, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor of Strategy, the University of Michigan's ... (
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From Brainware
May 5, 2010 at 8:19 am
In the 20th century one thing you didn't want was a reputation as a job hopper. But in the 21st century? Penelope Trunk says it's a different story. In a blog called Why ... (
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From Brainware
May 1, 2010 at 7:53 am
Our financial health is directly related to our national security. I'm not an economist and I'm not a finance guy, but I need to understand the global trends that work those ... (
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April 26, 2010 at 4:32 pm
On numerous occasions over the years, I've coached women managers and execs. Recently, while going through my file on influence management, I stumbled on an old article by Mary ... (
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April 26, 2010 at 9:40 am
The web is rife with questions about bosses. What do you do when your boss is a jerk? How can you work with asshole bosses? Why are some bosses so difficult to deal with? ... (
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April 25, 2010 at 11:39 am
Although recent college grads have complained about the job market, there's another side to youth and work. Organizational cost-cutting and layoffs can create opportunities ... (
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April 24, 2010 at 8:18 am
My friends with net worth in excess of a million bucks have little patience left for Wall Street. One of my buddies, an astute MBA and retired executive, lost slightly more ... (
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