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- The challenges of being an abstract thinker in a work oriented world
- I occasionally have a problem. Well, okay, I've got lots of problems and very few answers. Anyone who reads my blogs regularly knows that. However in this particular case I must admit that I have a conceptual problem with the kind of work that I do. You see, I'm an...
- Tags: Time Management, Problem, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- A cyber blind spot on human rights
- Isolation or AccessWe can either isolate the citizens of repressive governments by disallowing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from doing business with them or we can accept even the unacceptable level of access China will allow then let the innate curiosity of the citizens find a way around those stumbling blocks...
- Tags: china, government, isolation, it management, Microsoft Access, search, thinker, verneb@...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-01
- Strategic thinking is the key to proactive management
- TechRepublic member Eugene recently e-mailed me to ask how a new IT manager can learn to be a "more strategic alliance to business." The word "strategic" has been used in a variety of ways for work environments—strategic planning and strategic management, for example. However, another conceptual use of the term,...
- Tags: line staff, middle manager, Steven A. Watson, Strategic thinker, strategic thinking, thinker
- Technical articles 2003-07-08
- Don't be afraid of innovation
- In the IT world, we have our own Grand Canyon or Great Divide. It's the divide between those who know, understand, and implement innovative improvements and solutions—and those who don’t. Of the two categories in the software development world, the first includes those who are committed to doing the things...
- Tags: creative thinker, risk, Robert L. Bogue, thinker
- Technical articles 2003-05-26
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- The challenges of being an abstract thinker in a work oriented world
- Thank You.There's nothing quite like being an abstract/random thinker in a concrete sequential world. Thanks for the survival tips!
- Tags: bobcl@...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- 25 qualities that will get you promoted
- Whether you aspire to move into that corner office or to become the best developer, net admin, or support tech, these pointers will help you excel, advance, and succeed. TechRepublic blogger Ramon Padilla offers his insights into the qualities he has cultivated for himself and looks for in employees. His...
- Tags: Quality, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2006-10-30
- MB Rational Thought Number (exe)
- MB Free Rational Thought Number Software is software which is simple and interactive, and highlights the various ways in which you can probably develop your own thought process. This number, which is derived by adding up the value of all the letters in your first name, reveals whether you are...
- Tags: Letter, IBM Corp., MysticBoard, MB Free Rational Thought Number Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
- Atomixer (exe)
- Dr. Boson has set in motion a chain reaction that may destroy all life as we know it. With his help you must overcome the reaction by using his Atomixer Device. Fight the clock in Arcade mode as you battle against time to save the world from the chain reaction....
- Tags: Reaction
- Software downloads 2006-03-01
- Civic Decision Maker Game (exe)
- This game has over 1,200 lines of logic code to make for an interesting, logic driven with intuitive guessing possible, but with a lot of subtle mysteries. Written to be a source of both entertainment and wonderment, this simulator's simplicity of play is deceptive: It contains over one thousand lines...
- Tags: Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-09-07
- Toss that clunky calculator: Do the math yourself by souping up your brain with this mind performance hack
- Everyone can become a better thinker by practicing the brain hacks in Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain. But can everyone transform their own chronically overworked, overwhelmed noggin into an efficient, high-performance calculator? Sure. Now you no longer need to pull out a calculator to...
- Tags: Performance, O'Reilly Media Inc., Productivity, Leadership, Management
- Book chapters 2006-10-04
- 10 signs that you aren't cut out to be a project manager
- Mostly can agree, BUT.........Having been in project management all my working life, I am NOT an accidental project manager I find the best project managers sweat the details. Yes, they delegate, but they also follow up and follow through. For a good example of someone I consider to...
- Tags: Strategy, pauldg@..., Harrison
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- A theologian who loves robots?
- I was quite impressed with this interview of theologian Anne Foerst. It turns out that Ms. Foerst is not only a ground-breaking thinker in religious and theological fields, but has also had a life-long fascination with technology and robots. She is particulary interested in artificial intelligence, the human fascination with...
- Tags: Ms., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-05-18
- Googltics deepens: More presidential candidates at Google
- The twenty-first century Web leader, Google, invited to its campus an eighteenth century thinker, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX), with surprising results. Dr. Paul (an obstetrician, and still practicing medicine as well as serving his Galveston-area Texas congressional district) followed Senators Clinton and McCain to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dr., Googltics, Litigation, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Regulations, Business Operations, Marketing, Government, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- You can monitor your public image... and that's no scuttlebutt
- Do you spend your mornings looking at IT News stories? If you do, you may have experienced a "snapping" point - where a title all-of-a-sudden becomes hysterically funny. It's not really funny, but you can't seem to stop chuckling under your breath... and your coworkers are starting to wonder about you. Well, that's exactly...
- Tags: Monitor, Image, IBM Corp., Blogging, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2005-11-09
- What you should (and can't) do with raw intellectual property
- Legal rights to record staff ideas - not alwaysThe biggest problem you have with this is that the modern concept of intellectual property ownership rests on the Berne Convention and that gives basic ownership to the first to publish. More recent court cases have made it clear that unless there...
- Tags: tool, Deadly Ernest, ideas, intellectual property, legal, thoughts, it management
- Discussion threads 2006-04-17
- Meet Leonardo da Vinci, the world's first super-techie
- IT pros could learn a great deal about creativity by studying the life of Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Bob Weinstein interviews Michael Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day.I’ll bet you didn't know Leonardo da Vinci was the world's first...
- Tags: Bob Weinstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Gelb
- Technical articles 2000-01-05
- Firing up an old debate: Porting to .NET from J2EE
- It’s been my experience that there are debates, and then there are debates. The question of whether to migrate from Java to .NET or vice versa definitely falls into the latter category. As we celebrate .NET vs. J2EE week here on Builder.com, I can’t escape a feeling of deja vu:...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Enterprise software, firing, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, J2EE, Java
- Technical articles 2003-04-07
- Podcasting: The Radio On Demand
- A new online media is emerging as a heavy contender on the Internet. This new online media, which offers on demand audio programming for a variety of platforms and purposes, is gaining in popularity day by day and is easy to take advantage of. This technology has been named Podcasting...
- Tags: MP3, online media, podcast, podcasting, radio
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
- Podcasting is a COOL Technology
- A new online media is emerging as a heavy contender on the Internet. This new online media, which offers on demand audio programming for a variety of platforms and purposes, is gaining in popularity day by day and is easy to take advantage of. This technology has been named Podcasting...
- Tags: MP3, online media, podcast, podcasting
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Try TA to improve your communications success
- Here's a 40 year old "secret" for getting ahead.It involves research done back in the 1960's by Dr. Eric Berne. His work back then has become a time-tested and easily implemented communication tool. It's called Transactional Analysis, or TA, by those who practice it.Berne said that verbal communication, particularly face...
- Tags: Adult, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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