Visuals
A map is a map
... until you clarify the parameters. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM]
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Social networking
Facebook generation gap
We don't take Facebook for granted the way our children do, with their unthinking postings on each others' walls, their casual use of the F-word on what is effectively a quasi-public forum, their postings of their own photographs in varying states of sobriety and decency.
Business Environment
A bi-cultural executive
She might have three selves, but she also has two different styles. The French one, which loves these abstract ideas of freedom and the future. And the American one, with its management clichés of teamwork and listening. The two make an odd mixture. Perhaps she herself is a miniature version
Teaching and Learning
Online search has narrowing effect
Indexes and tables of contents provide a context, giving a broader snapshot of the field at a given time. And after consulting them, the researcher must make a considered decision to take the next step. By contrast, in online searches, the researcher tends to follow hyperlink to hyperlink, in a
Business Environment
I.O.U.S.A. or Don't buy stuff you cannot afford
I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that explains the national debt. It has been called the Inconvenient Truth of fiscal realities: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo] The CEPR disagrees with the documentary's numbers. David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, on 60
Intercultural communication
Cultures must be seen in their wider context
A great introduction to my Spring 2009 cross-cultural communication class from UNFPA's State of world population 2008: Cultures must be seen in their wider context: They influence and are influenced by external circumstances and change in response. They are not static; people are continuously involved in reshaping
management
Evidence-Based Management
Five Principles of EBM: 1. Face the hard facts, and build a culture in which people are encouraged to tell the truth, even if it is unpleasant 2. Be committed to "fact based" decision making -- which means being committed to getting the best evidence and using it to
leadership
When "a perfect storm" is actually a failure of leadership
Please spare us the "perfect storm" metaphor. It's hackneyed, for starters. It doesn't square with the facts. And for people who fancy themselves leaders, it's downright unbecoming. The reason the perfect storm is such an appealing metaphor for these shipwrecked captains of
Executive Compensation
Merrill's Thain wants a $10mn bonus: What do you think?
Merrill Lynch & Co Chief Executive John Thain has suggested to directors that he get a 2008 bonus of as much as $10 million, but the battered company's compensation committee is resisting his request. (...) Thain has said he deserves a bonus because he helped avert what could have
Visuals
The stock market: How bad is it?
On this chart each block represents a year and each column represents a range of return on the S&P index. Over on the right side are those lucky years where the index has soared upward from 50-60%. In the middle are the more typical years, where the
Comic relief
Ikea's solution to Detroit's problems
Business Environment
Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis
A long article at The New Yorker