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Monday morning blues are nothing but a myth, according to research. Almost two-thirds of UK workers actually like Mondays and feel positive about the start of the working week, the study by Chiumento HR consultancy found. Only 5% of the 1,060 workers surv

iPerceptions attitudinal analytic solutions continuously capture and measure the perceptions and attitudes of your actual web site visitors’ online experience in the context of their actual visit. Our attitudinal analytics and iPerceptions Satisfaction In

A Wall Street Journal article called “The Wizards of Buzz” focuses on the power of the top users on Digg, Netscape and other “social bookmarking” sites. The article highlights 16 or so of these users, along with their real name, screen name, areas

a great satire(?) on systems thinking and other logical diagrams

I love that idea insight is the popcorn of therapy and I think it touches on a truth for many other contexts. Our culture seems to prize clever insights, but I think these are often fairly superficial excitements at a mental level. What’s going on underne

Dr. Deming’s Ideas Dr. Deming’s famous 14 Points, originally presented in Out of the Crisis, serve as management guidelines. The points cultivate a fertile soil in which a more efficient workplace, higher profits, and increased productivity may grow.

Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service

James Byford posts about the link up between Technorati and Ogilvy. James raises some good questions about what it means.

A simple and down to earth view of your career

Drumming increases heart rate and blood flow just like an aerobic exercise. The process of drumming engages both the linear, (rational left brain) and the creative, (intuitive right brain). It slows the brain waves to around 8 cycles per second, the exact

ERP and Point Solutions converging, especially in HR?

Another threat to google?

Arnold Kling, we recently noted, finds bloggers more valuable than journal editors. Richard Florida says bloggers are more interesting than newspaper columnists

Thirteen London boroughs are working together in a staff recruitment initiative that could save more than £150,000 a year. The Shared Recruitment Service is due to go live in the spring. It is believed to be the largest local government joint project of

Research on how junior high school students’ beliefs about intelligence affect their math grades found that those who believed that intelligence can be developed performed better than those who believed intelligence is fixed.

Why I want to be in HR. This is a hilarious (and oh ! So true video) that HR.com has come up with.
Is this the future of advertising in the age of social media. If yes, then I like !

CMAT™ is an assessment tool, backed by a model of Customer Management, that enables organisations to understand how well they are managing their customers.

Over the last few years there has been lots of talk about how to measure the ROI of a corporate blog, I have written about it a fews times. At the end of the day ROI of a blog is hard to measure, unless you sell advertising which most corporate blogs do n

whether the discipline of sociology itself may now be ebbing away, as so many of its leading practitioners depart the scene without, it seems, anyone standing ready to replace them

The basic problem with Wikinomics, and others in this genre, is the failure to take a balanced, comparative approach to the effect of technology on transaction costs. Of course, information technology has the potential to lower the costs of transacting be

Different discourses, however, draw on the same strategy labels, which leads to ‘productive misunderstandings’ (Teubner). On the basis of the particular perspective advanced here, the entire field of strategy is re-described as an ecology of strategy

The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and agency, and makes a novel addition,

This article reports the results of a micro-level study into firm resources. It involved a comparative qualitative study of the activities contributing to service delivery in two similar but differentially performing divisions, one perceived by customers

We argue that organizational-level responses and how these develop over time can be explained by examining individuals’ interpretative responses. Through inductive analysis we identify five interpretative responses at the individual level: convergent re

The studies keep rolling in. The Angela Mortimer Salary Survey 2007, The blue book, surveys 1,000 job seekers and over 700 businesses, revealing that 78% of companies struggled to attract the staff they wanted in 2006. Many experienced a longer and more e

In Josh’s role at venture fund Lux Capital he says he’s interested in three things “Nine-zero markets, two-legged mammals and singular technologies.”

Our annual survey of emerging ideas considers how nanotechnology will affect commerce, what role hope plays in leadership, and why, in an age that practically enshrines accountability, we need to beware of “accountabalism.”

As part of the package, Aon has introduced online job advertising on targeted vacancy boards, and revamped the careers section of the company’s website. This has allowed the company to stop using external recruitment agencies, with only a third of its r

Now this is seriously radical, because it means we are actually, shock horror gasp, starting to ask folks how they would like to be sold to. Clearly with all the stuff going on with new products, we need to figure some new ways to sell and communicate wit

If Dodge is right, Pell is playing a very high stakes game of poker. If he wins, they get bought fast and all those Yahoo’ers go right back to Yahoo. If he loses, his product better be damned good once it launches. Because a lot of people will be watchi

The net result? It’s not as uncommon as you think for fairly senior general partners, with 10 years of experience, to have never received a carry check. And if they’re only working for salary, then another VC fund that offers them a bigger salary can poac

Inspired by the subway map for a well-known city, the map shows some of the major trends in each of these segments, as well as the key intersections between the trends. Have a browse through to see some of the more interesting trends in the landscape. And

Every day I am amazed afresh by the transformative power of the Web. Today I have discovered Many Eyes, a site hosted by IBM’s AlphaWorks. It combines open participation with a wonderful set of visualization tools. As such anyone can upload data sets, a

Again part of the Etc… in the Blog’s title. Not an illusion, but an amazing display by Mother Nature and her creatures.

The first thing I said was that blogging itself is not important. It is understanding the philosophy behind blogging and other emerging social media that is more important. The Cluetrain dictum that markets are conversations, and only by joining in these

Even more than time management, attention management is critical for collaboration, innovation and leadership. Attention is a vital company resource that is abused as an unintended consequence of the low cost of electronic communications such as email.

The match between your employees’ values and the organization or team’s values is a more powerful factor by far than money in keeping good people.

Merlin Index, a psychometric on collaboration and conflict?

In it, an autistic woman lets us into her world. In the first half, we see her engaging with life in a way, I would say in a language, of her own. This footage will probably trigger a variety of reactions in you - it did in me. In the second half, she cho

On Monday, paper-products giant Kimberly-Clark will unveil plans to sell customized Kleenex boxes. Each oval-shaped, cardboard pack can be adorned with photos of just about anyone or anything folks want.

You should not buy an outsource company based on lowest bid possible, you should buy support from an outsource company because they excel at what you are outsourcing, have deep roots and smart people in that kind of work, and have an excellent track recor

Thomson based his approach on the idea that depression is not simply a disease to be eliminated, but a way of eliciting support from family and friends. It’s a concept derived from evolutionary psychology, a burgeoning field that is starting to influenc

If you think the early “American Idol” performances are the most cringe-worthy exercises in vocalizing you’ve heard this year, you haven’t heard this team-building song by Shell. When it’s time to get people fired up and transcend the challenges of your r