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Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?
Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?:This six-page Los Angeles Times article shares its investigation to find ‘the process [of firing poor teachers] so arduous that many school principals don’t even try, except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can’t teach is rare …” Read more [...]
The White House Gets A MySpace Page
The White House Gets A MySpace Page To Show Off Obama’s Hoop Skills: ” The White House finally got around to setting up a MySpace page. It is spare and tasteful and doesn’t say MySpace anywhere on the page, unlike the White House page on Facebook which is clearly a Facebook page. The page is [...]
Teabaggers and Puppetmasters
A Sci-fi authors’ take on Teabaggers and Puppetmasters: An e-mail today, which I suspect is tongue-in-cheek, but which actually is worth making a point about: Why do the teabaggers and their puppetmasters hate America so much? Well, in terms of the teabaggers, of course, they don’t hate America. They love America, and no, I’m not [...]
Integrity in 376 words (Business version)
The difference between truly standing for something and a mission statement: “Being an opinionated company is great. Great companies have a point of view, not just a product. But there’s a world of difference between truly standing for something and having a mission statement that says you stand for something. You know, those ‘providing the [...]
7 Ebert Paragraphs on history, newspapers, and Bill O’Reilly
Precious. A brief, but typically awesome blog post by Roger Ebert; this time on Bill O’Reilly’s recent attack against a newspaper that dropped his column.
Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity
Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity: “‘People who do surf the internet for fun at work — within a reasonable limit of less than 20 per cent of their total time in the office — are more productive by about nine per cent than those who don’t,’ said Coker. (Via Slashdot.)
New Fundamental Law of Network Economics
New Fundamental Law of Network Economics: “intersys writes ‘A new fundamental law of economics has been formulated by Rod Beckstrom, former Director of the National Cyber Security Center. In Words: The value of a network equals the net value added to each user’s transactions (PDF) conducted through that network, valued from the perspective of each [...]
Do influential people develop more conventional opinions?
The convention of influence Some mechanisms that promote a drift away from invention towards convention could include: 1. People ‘sell out’ to become more influential. 2. As people become more influential, they are less interested in offending their new status quo-oriented friends. 3. As people become more influential, their opinion of the status quo rises, [...]
Is Your Company Designed for Humans?
Is Your Company Designed for Humans? – Peter Merholz – HarvardBusiness.org: …The companies that do best in serving others are those that do best in serving themselves. (Via Harvard Business.org.)
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy)
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals): “How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works [...]
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