Once things have happened once
Charles Frankel, in High on Foggy Bottom; an Outsider's Inside View of the GovernmentOnce things have happened, no matter how accidentally, they will be regarded as manifestations of an unchangeable...
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HenryMintzberg:Executive compensation has become a polite form of thievery, or, if you prefer, legal corruption. Executives get paid extra when the stock price goes up (bonus) and when it goes down...
View ArticleComprant llibres
M'he convertit en un entusiasta de The Book Depository. Normalment hi comprava els llibres via amazon.fr; acostumaven a sortir-me una mica més barats que comprant-los a Amazon mateix. Ara els compro...
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El autor sin abuela y la teoría de la organización
La portada de la PDA gigante era un mal augurio. Si no fuera porque el material de la asignatura Organización y administración de empresas II, que curso en la UOC, está basado en gran parte en este...
View ArticleAnalyze your traffic without you
Even when you have like a dozen visits a day, checking google analytics now and then is nice (hey! a vsitor from Belize!). However, it is nice to be able to tell what traffic comes from yourself and...
View ArticleThe Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management
From BBC's Learning English, The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management, an old (2002?) and delightful audio series.Do not miss it. It is written and narrated by Charles Handy. Listening to Handy's...
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Charles Handy and Potfolio Lifes
What interested me was not the downsizing or the re-engineering itself, but the consequences for our individual working lives. Organizations, it seemed to me, would increasingly dispense with our...
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Peter Drucker was there before
The third episode in The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management, is about Peter Drucker. Now it's a nice time to learn a bit more about him, because right now Drucker's Centenial Week is happening:...
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Peter Drucker on decentralization
Yet another post about the third episode in The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management.He explained, for the first time, how and why decentralization worked. He calculated that 95 per cent of all...
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Peter Drucker: from supervision to objectives
Last post about the episode about Peter Drucker in The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management.Drucker later elaborated on the setting of objectives in Managing by Results and many have considered this...
View Article"because" vs "in order to"
Charles Handy, in The Age Of UnreasonContinuous change is comfortable change. The past is then the guide to the future. An American friend, visiting Britain and Europe for the first time, wondered,...
View ArticleChanges
Changes, changes, changes... Please, do not tell my mum about them, because she would be very upset with me!Last July I took a two years leave from IBM. In a very smart move (in my opinion), IBM is...
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Using OLPC XO as an ebook reader for O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online
My XO OLPC is not collecting dust any more after I suddenly realized that its reflective screen mode would allow me to read safaribooksonline.com while outside. Firefox is an option, but I went for...
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Carrots & Sticks? Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
Fun and surprising TED Talk by Dan Pink on Motivation. Experiments show that extrinsic motivators (carrots and sticks) work great for simple/mechanical-like tasks, probably by providing a narrow focus....
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Acelerador sensible y malos frenos
He leído un artículo estupendo sobre cómo los adolescentes gestionan el riesgo: No Brakes! Risk and the adolescent brain. Lo resumo para mis amistades perezosas o poco amigas del inglés, pero...
View ArticleSecretaries
From The Attention Economy : Understanding the New Currency of Business:Expect to see personal assistants whose primary job is to sift through information and eliminate unnecessary drains on...
View ArticleOpenID
I'm a happy new user of http://myopenid.com. Registration was very simpleThe OpenID urls you get are nice (yourchoice.myopenid.com)It supports multiple personas, i.e. during the signon process, you can...
View ArticleI have been reading
I have not been posting in months, but I have been reading some books.http://books.verg.es/index.html Notes on some of the books that I have been readinghttp://notes.verg.es/index.html Notes on...
View ArticleHábitos de estudio
He encontrado un buen artículo (en el New York Times) que habla de hábitos de estudio y se carga algunas cosas que hemos dado por supuestas toda la vida. Jóvenes lectores, préstenme su atención, por...
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La paciencia tiene un límite
Al parecer, el catalán ya no puede ser el idioma preferente en el ayuntamiento de la capital de Cataluña.Nos están echando. Y me sabe fatal.
View ArticleKids need to learn to make good choices
You know, kids learn to make good choices not by following directions but by making choices I liked this sentence so much that I wanted to find out more about its author, Alfie Kohn. After reading...
View ArticleTú tienes cáncer y yo no
Cada vez que te encuentres pensando o diciéndole a alguien "qué putada" o "qué mala suerte", acuérdate de los mineros de Chile. Supongo que los habrá que estarán diciendose "qué mala suerte haber...
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Els ciclistes opinen
El 2011 he agafat la bicicleta UN dia. I resulta que aquell dia, a un carril bici de la Diagonal, unes noies em fan una pregunta, unes fotos, i em demanen autorització per publicar-la al Barcelona...
View ArticleAre we unprofessional?
From Uncle Bob's Clean Code, discussing the pressures that professionals get to deliver unacceptable quality:What if you were a doctor and had a patient who demanded that you stop all the silly...
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Preparativos para un Open Space
Vuelvo del Visual Management Open Space 2011 más feliz que un anís. Aunque con un pero. El mismo pero con el que volví del Agile Open Space 2011: hay muchas conversaciones interesantes que no llego a...
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