In a fun and mind-turning essay, Michael T. Kanazawa argues People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying To Change Them It starts out with a cold slap in the face: "According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of...
The future of business will be dominated by freelancers who affiliate with each other on a temporary basis and rarely go into an office. Why should they? The network technology will be so advanced that the real world will be largely forgotten, thanks to virtual worlds built on top...
Perhaps because everyone knows there's no place like home, I was skeptical of Who's Your City? see The Future According to Richard Florida. Having now read it, I am impressed by author Richard Florida's ability to take massive amounts of...
Looking for the best place to build your high-tech business? Here's what The Milken Institute says in its 2008 State Technology and Science Index. The states in the best position to succeed in the technology-led information age are (2004 rankings in parentheses): Massachusetts...
With 60 percent of Americans now attending college, Richard Posner asks whether the number might go to 100 percent (don't snort; it wasn't even a century ago that most people didn't go to high school). At first, in his post on the boom in college education, he seems to think...
Should work make us happy? Hmm. I should say yes -- I write frequently about ideas suggesting workplace culture should be more encouraging and supportive than it often is. Most people spend the majority of their waking hours working, and work shouldn't be a depressing...
Business thinkers may want to skip the second part of "The Big Switch." It's learned and interesting, but not very much about business -- at least, in the short term. In the long term, his speculative logic changes everything about society. The Universal Computer that will emerge from...
Having fun outside of the office boosts productivity. Or so argues the blog Chief Happiness Officer, which suggests that companies would improve productivity by giving employees a fun day -- an extra day off and a little bit of money to go do something fun. To ensure that it's...
I've stirred the pot with my post Sink or Swim Business, which looks at some of the management ideas of Ralph Sink. While I note several of his comments, the incendiary part of the post seems to be my opening line, which includes the words "fire all the managers." ...
I'm interested in how people come up with ideas. That's one reason why I reviewed Bernd Schmidt's book "Big Think" (see How To Build Bernd Schmitt's Trojan Horse). So I was eager to read The Road To Eureka! subscription required, a piece in Science News on...
The blog Curious Cat posted Do corporations exist solely to maximize their bottom lines? We don't think so, a post that drew from a Forbes article looking at the history of efforts to create socially conscious companies. In fact, most companies follow a shifting strategy towards profits -- many...
The uber consultants at McKinsey's Technology Initiative have published their first Perspectives volume, seven pieces on the major trends the firm sees emerging. I'll highlight the first piece here more later on the rest. It's called Eight business technology trends to watch free registration required, but these...
Is a Harvard MBA worth it? Maybe, says British journalist Philip Delves Broughton, who quit his job at the Daily Telegraph to get a Harvard MBA, then wrote a book about it, "Ahead of the Curve." BNET1's post MBA Follies: Two Years at Harvard Business gives some...
Most firms wouldn't think of hiring workers who don't have a college degree. But degrees say very little about the person they're hiring, argues Charles Murray, a scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. The Wall Street Journal published For Most People, College Is a Waste...
At a tense press conference during a hostile takeover I covered as a young reporter, I got the last question. I asked the CEO of the company under siege to tell us a joke. "A joke?" he asked. "Yeah," I said. "You're supposed to be funny. Tell us a joke."...
NEW YORK -- NRF Annual Convention 2006 takes place 15 - 18 Jan. at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. For in-depth information about the event visit http://nrfannual06.expoexchange.com/. Below are profiles from NRF Annual Convention 2006 exhibitors; breaking news releases are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business...
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