Strategy
[F]or a company like NetFlix, frequent customers are less profitable than other users. NetFlix customers who return their movies more quickly, require more service, and incur additional shipping costs, reducing profitability. Each DVD mailed and returned costs the company 78ยข in postage alone. There are other processing, handling, and
Odds and Ends
No one belongs [t]here more than you
management
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are "a relic of the industrial age." "The worst thing is for
Work and the workplace
86 % of students surveyed enjoyed class more with baroque background music whereas 76 % of students without any music found the class enjoyable 33 % of students found math challenging whereas 46 % in the class without the baroque music found it challenging. Earlier research findings show that Baroque music enhances learning of
intangible
HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he
Ling- English
So here we are in the era of Word's red-underline "wrong spelling, dumb ass" feature and Outlook's Always Check Spelling Before Sending option, and still the mistakes proliferate. Catching typos is easy (although not everyone does it). It's the other stuff
presentation
[E]xamine your work from previous talks [and] remember this rule of thumb: if your presentation visuals taken in the aggregate (...) can be perfectly and completely understood without your narration, then it begs the question: why are you there? (Presentation Zen)
Monsieur Ibrahim
... becau se you never know what you might find in the pages of a Holy Book. Two cultures, two generations, one story. Omar Sharif returns after a five-year absence. Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 4 wins and 4 nominations.
Business Environment
While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent. The gains went largely
Community
Lois is a type -- a particularly rare and extraordinary type, but a type nonetheless. She's the type of person who seems to know everybody, and this type can be found in every walk of life. Someone I met at a wedding (actually, the wedding of the daughter of
Teaching and Learning
I liked most of the meetings, except when Thrasymachus came. He was completely arrogant, and I really resented his male rage and his point of view. I guess I kind of liked him, though, because he stood up to Prof. Socrates, but I think he is against peace and justice
Community
Mohandas K. Gandhi was convinced much of the violence in society and in our personal lives stems from the passive violence that we commit against each other. He described these acts of passive violence as the "Seven Blunders". Grandfather gave me the list in 1947 just before we