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May
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[The word process] immediately conjures up images of bureaucracy and slowness and decisions by committee—all things associated with bad management.
Apr
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ilovecharts:


Time travel in movies

ilovecharts:

Time travel in movies

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Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s (by hodman57)

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Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases:

Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success.
Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities.
Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts.
Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place.

Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, success is a catalyst for failure.

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My professional wish for 2013: That it really IS this simple! … make sure you watch also the last seconds!

A small demonstration (by MSFTPortugal)

Dec
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If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.
Nov
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Imaginary futures are always, regardless of what the authors might think, about the day in which they’re written.
Nov
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It’s only technology if it happened after you were born.
Nov
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[OLPC] just left the boxes there, sealed up, containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how the tablets were used. Here’s how it went down, as related by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference last week:

“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.”

Oct
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Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything (by UCtelevision)

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world’s creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.