Walk into the room and can't find your keys? Or forget why you entered the room in the first place? Wondering what has happened to your short-term memory? Feel overwhelmed by information, people, to-do lists and demands on your time? Everyday, we are bombarded with all sorts of demands and...
The business world is swinging irrevocably from a manufacturing orientation to one in which information processing and systems, creative and strategic thinking, and other intelligence-driven factors are the norm. Where manual labor and routine activity once ruled, brainpower and creativity now begin to reign supreme. Brainpower is the new driving...
Knowledge assets are essential for competitive advantage today, but they don’t guarantee shareholders above-average returns. Because even though firms may be producing more value than ever from brainpower, not all of that value goes to shareholders. Nevertheless, much of the value of knowledge assets remains inaccessible to investors. This...
WIMBLEDON, England -- The outside courts were bustling at Wimbledon on Saturday with rank-and-file players pairing off to practice with the grass quiet beneath their sprinting, shuffling feet. But courtside, as the coaches, agents and commentators looked on in the June gloom, the chatter quickly turned to the favorite for...
If it's true that fish is "brain food," then this method of teaching your students about batik will give them extra brainpower. On a recent trip to the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, I visited a wonderful batik studio, Caribelle Batik. This world-famous studio and shop offers a...
Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra years of growth and development they spend reaching adulthood, anthropologists from Switzerland's University of Zurich have concluded. The investigators compared key benchmarks in the...
Is Portland on the verge of greatness? At last week's City Club Friday Forum, panelists Brad Cloepfil, Tom Manley and Sohrab Vossoughi said Portland is in a unique position to capitalize on local brainpower and collaborative spirit. The forum focused on Portland's "creative grid" - a term...
Working Relationships Bob Wall Davies Black Publishing 1055 Joaquin Road, 2nd Floor, Mountain View, CA 94043 9780891061885, $20.95, www.daviesblack.com Sometimes a worker seems to be the best--he has all the ideas, all the cleverness, all the innovation--yet he doesn't flourish--while...
Working Relationships: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Effectiveness With Others By Bob Wall (Davies-Black Publishing, 231 pp.. $20.95) In this revision of the 1999 first edition, Bob Wall uses updated examples from his and others' experiences to illustrate the application of emotional intelligence (EQ] in the workplace. According...
BURBANK, Calif. -- The Institute of Theoretical Lost-istics is in session, professors Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof presiding. The executive producers of the fourth-season ABC mystery drama, which returns tonight (10 ET/PT) for what amounts to a six-hour second semester, recently sat down to evaluate a selection of...
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and BostonUniversity School of Management will host the Third Annual InternationalTech Strategy Business Case Competition on March 28 and 29 at BostonUniversity. Uniquelyqualified students from top business schools around the world willengage in an intense, 24-hour competition, worth $47,500 in prizes,to solve a real market challenge facing...
If you put Bill Gates into a TV studio to talk software, you wouldn't want him just showing how to clip and paste in Windows. You hope that won't happen to Bob Knight, who Wednesday began his daily clock-punching at ESPN for studio shows through the NCAA Final...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The head of the Defense Department's counter-improvised explosive device effort challenged some of the best minds in industry, academia, the national laboratories, and the military to come up with better ways to thwart these deadly weapons. Retired Army Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, director of...
YOUNG, E.L. STORM; the infinity code. Penguin, Dial. 336p. illus. c2008. 978-0-8037-3265-0. $16.99. J Will, a 14-year-old student in a gifted program at a London school, has a knack for coming up with cool inventions like a Rapid Ascent wall-climbing device or a mobile camera he calls Fly...
POSTGRADUATE NURSING Nurses who want to get ahead are aiming higher with the help of online courses. By Chris Green Nurses used to be seen as playing second fiddle to the authority of doctors, but a new breed of postgraduates is changing that...
Wireless News02-27-2008University of the Incarnate Word Picks MDI's LearnSafe School Safety and Security InitiativeWIRELESS NEWS-February 27, 2008-University of the Incarnate Word Picks MDI's LearnSafe School Safety and Security Initiative C2008 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com MDI announced that the LearnSafe Initiative will begin providing services immediately to the University of the...
AN Oscar win can easily add dollars-100 million to the takings of a film which would more than double the revenues of most of this year's shortlist of resolutely non-commercial films. Relatively small-grossing movies dominate tonight's selection, with Juno the only one of the five movies...
Risk Management to Encompass UIW Main Campus, Satellite Sites, Pharmacy School and Grade Schools SAN ANTONIO -- MDI, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDII), announced today that the LearnSafe Initiative would begin providing services immediately to the University of the Incarnate Word UIW, which is one of the largest private institutions...
OUTLOOK By nationalising Northern Rock, the Government hopes to achieve closure on one of the most embarrassing and traumatic episodes of its eleven-year rule, yet I fear its problems with the Rock are only just beginning. At a stroke, the Government has blown its...
For the latter half of last year, the BBJ crew devoted countless hours of brainpower and phone calls to compile this year's Book of Lists, which is included in this issue. The Book of Lists presents an interesting challenge, as we sift through...
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