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The drug classification system in the UK is not “fit for purpose” and should be scrapped, scientists have said. They have drawn up an alternative system which they argue more accurately reflects the harm that drugs do.

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The intersection of the collaboration network and performance management is the ability to identify who your major contributors are and rewarding them appropriately. You’ll need to understand and map your collaboration network, and you’ll need some re

Researchers at The Accenture Institute for High Performance Business are developing just such a tool. The technology makes it possible to see informal organizational networks and observe the channels through which work actually gets done … in real time.

Outsourcing and Management identifies and defines important new economy organizational dysfunctions — the Moving-Target Theory of Management, Internal Monopoly, the Bozo-CEO, and the Stream-of-Consciousness Manager — all of which are destined for the sc

In a piece titled “A Counterintuitive Human Capital Strategy” in CEO magazine (www.chiefexecutive.net March 2007), Alan Guarino makes the case that hiring the best and brightest can actually hold back a company. Companies that focus on a candidate’s acade

No thought leadership from HR consulting firms So says Fiona Czerniawska, the author of White Space 2007, a research report that evaluates the latest thought leadership published by the top global consulting firms. (Hat tip: Mike McLaughlin)

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So let me get this straight. Mankind would be better of had he never been born? Has this author offed himself? If not, what is his justification for his continued existence? Certainly not to produce laughably idiotic tomes like this.

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Using principles derived from living systems theory, Verna and her colleagues help companies evolve management thinking and practices to support increasing levels of complexity and create successful value networks.

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In a super-efficient two-page PDF layout, this printable reference contains excellent advanced search tricks and shortcuts to get the most out of searching on the biggest of the professionally-geared online social networks (Linkedin), developed by industr