Archive for October 2008
Economy, food crisis, climate change, competitiveness
Europe`s economic outlook (Bulgaria is doing quite ok, ah? 
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The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis, Paul Collier (You can also listen to the article)
Some links you may find interesting
The End of Time-Based Management?
[…] If you look at the history of using time to measure work, it’s a relatively recent concept starting around the 1930s, when assembly-line production became too complex to determine what you did or what I did. Prior to that, people were paid according to how many buttons they sewed: by task.[…]
[…] ROWE obviously has some limitations, especially in the service economy, where you need people present during certain hours. […]
[…] It definitely asks more of managers.[…]
Take a look at the comments as well as there are some good points worth to read.
( “How to measure the “unmeasurable”?”; “9-5 is an arbitrary system set-up in the Industrial Age (read Tim Ferris’s 4-hour workweek) We live in Enterprise 2.0.” , etc.)
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A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
[…]Beginning October 1st, Edge will begin to publish on a weekly basis the text, selected video highlights, and photos of the six classes comprising “A Short Course In Behavioral Economics”. Below, please find the Table of Contents; Introduction By Daniel Kahneman; Summary of Day 1 By Nathan Myhrvold; Summary of Day 2 By George Dyson; Link to the Photo Gallery; and Link to Class One.[…]
I really liked one of the quotes below this text- it says “[…]The increased concentration among banks seems to have the effect of making financial crisis less likely, but when they happen they are more global in scale and hit us very hard.[…], Nassim Taleb
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Seven Questions: Thomas Friedman’s Plan for a Hot, Flat, and Crowded World
No need of presentation or quotes, just read it : )
