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Content Templates to the Rescue
Content Templates to the Rescue: “As an industry, we’ve learned to plan our sites to achieve business goals and meet human needs while shipping on time and delivering compelling user experiences. Alas, despite all the sweat we pour into strategy sessions and GANTT charts, we still have to coax content out of our subject matter [...]
Toxic People In The Workplace
A Toxic Paradox My favorite part of this brilliant essay is that he goes someplace positive and surprising. Twist! (Via Rands In Repose.)
The planning fallacy
The planning fallacy: “ We blame bureaucracy for being wasteful and taking too long when things like the Denver International Airport or Boston’s Big Dig arrive years overdue and billions over budget. But it’s not just huge organizations and the government that mess up planning. Everyone does. It’s the ‘planning fallacy.’ We think we can [...]
Werewolves
A List Apart: Articles: Managing Werewolves Project Management and Workflow: If I move a muscle, I’m dead. Jane, who I’m pretty sure is a Werewolf, is jumping from one player to the next, testing will and looking for weakness. She’s looking for a sign of guilt or discomfort and it’s not just her. The room [...]
Burnout: The adult kind
Burnout Web professionals are often expected to be ‘always on’—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an ‘always on’ life can be debilitating. (Via A List Apart.)
Quote for the day – Topic: Failing Cheaply
Ian MacMillan, Wharton professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, and Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, believe It’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively”.
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 [...]
Remote Workers
The Pond: “ ‘Can I work remote?’ I cringe. It’s Ian and Ian is a senior engineer. He’s a rock. He gets it done. I never have to ask him twice and, after six years, Ian has every right to ask to work remote. But I’m still freaked because my first thought when anyone asks [...]
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.)
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, [...]
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