Archive for December, 2011
Friday Humor: So Much to do, so Little Time
Posted: December 30, 2011 by Alison in Just For FunTags: New Years
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Best Practices – Aren’t
Posted: December 29, 2011 by Alison in Articles/Essays, Office PoliticsTags: Best practice, Business, Cloud computing, Common sense, Company, Glossary of chess, Methodology, Solution
By Mike Myatt Believe it or not, there is a downside to anything labeled best practices. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as best practices, I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear someone use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a [...]
Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss
Posted: December 26, 2011 by Alison in Human RelationsTags: Creativity, George Lucas, Google, Harvard Business School, Larry Page, PARC, Sergey Brin, Teresa Amabile
by Daniel Goleman Philip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs to write or edit a script, he sequesters himself in a small cottage behind his house where he gets [...]