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• XPLANE | The Visual Thinking Company
  Its just like Group Partners…
  (tags: design VisualThinking creativity visualization communication visualisation interesting information innovation change cool_companies)
• Teblog: A powerful picture, in more ways than one
  The dark discs show how much land area would be required by solar power systems to satisfy the world’s primary energy demands, at present levels. It was created by Matthias Loster, who is listed at Berkeley’s Physics department as a post-doctoral fellow.
  (tags: climate change geography solar_power environment electricity)
• Online Recruitment - The evolution of online testing
  Developments in internet testing and internet security

  Online testing has come a long way since the early days, when tests were generic and security poor. The result is an efficient and cost effective service, welcomed by employers and candidates. We f

  (tags: internet psychometrics innovation security)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Free AdSense
  In a rare but little noticed moment of extreme candor during a November 2005 interview with Fred Vogelstein (which was only recently published), Google CEO Eric Schmidt noted the great competitive importance of the company’s auction pricing:
  (tags: adsense advertising google microsoft pricing strategy business technology blogs)
• The Ignorance of Crowds
  The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations.
  (tags: crowds technology collaboration trends opensource peer_production)

• Channel 4 - News - Privacy fears over Google ‘personalisation’
  Mr Schmidt said: “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation.”
  (tags: google questions processs privacy philosophy life)

• systematicHR - Human Resources Strategy and Technology » Quantifying Competency’s Effect on Productivity
  What HR needs to do is prove the effect our programs have on the bottom line. Our talent programs are in their infancy, and we haven’t built them with the understanding of everything we’ll want out of them in ten year’s time. Many of us think we’v
  (tags: talent-management resources hr roi value metrics)
• Cognitive Edge: To fall, intelligently ….
  You would have thought that it was bad enough that anyone would give credibility to intelligent design. However the folly of tolerating this sort of idiocy it that stupidity breeds stupidity. I quote:
  (tags: religion bible perceptions problems)
• Towards a Dialectic Perspective on Formalization in Interorganizational Relationships: How Alliance Managers Capitalize on the Duality Inherent in Contracts, Rules and Procedures — Vlaar et al. 28 (4): 437 — Organization Studies
  Our framework is illustrated by a case study of an alliance between a major European financial services firm and one of the world’s leading retailers. The alliance managers in this particular relationship attempted to reduce or capitalize on the tensions
  (tags: organisational_design organisations relationships communication social-networking sna)
• CYBAEA.NET :: The Secret Impact of Social Norms
  But it is stronger than that. The 22% who received the cheque but didn’t complete the questionnaire? They didn’t cash the cheque. Our social norms are so strong that we find it almost impossible to complete an uneven exchange.
  (tags: persuasion negotiation influence relationships psychology society sociology social principles)

• The Human Capitalist » The Lessening Influence of Gartner
  Gartner gone bad?

  Vinnie Mirchandani, former Gartner analyst, recently wrote a interesting analysis of Gartner’s diminishing influence in the enterprise. In Vinnie’s view, “…I read my former Gartner colleague Jonathan Yarmis rave about its grow

  (tags: gartner change perceptions gaps uncool cool)
• Stay Free! Daily: Gay gaze
  Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing us to this amazing study demonstrating that, while both men and women concentrate on faces when looking at pictures of men, men’s eyes naturally wander south. This may not be news if the phrase ‘my eyes are up here’ is ru
  (tags: gay sexuality perceptions research visual visualization)