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- wisdom of the Ages (exe)
- Wisdom of the Ages is an electronic book of quotes, sayings and ideas. It gives easy access to timeless knowledge from over 1,000 of history's greatest American, European and Asian minds. Improve your letters, reports, proposals and speeches with 6,561 carefully chosen thoughts. The intuitive organization lets you find excellent...
- Tags: Wisdom, MCR Agency, Quote-A-Day Feature, E-books, Leadership, Construction, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- Microsoft Webcast: The wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective wisdom Shapes Business
- While the culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, The New Yorker business columnist, the presenter, argues that "Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." Groups have the potential to be better at solving problems,...
- Tags: Webcast, Wisdom, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Sanity check: The 700 MHz auction will tip the wireless balance, but in which direction?
- It is one of the most talked about pieces of air in the history of civilization, and for good reason. The 700 MHz spectrum of radio waves currently being auctioned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will have a major impact on the future of mobile phones and the...
- Tags: Mobile Internet, Google Inc., Mobile, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Wisdom, Spectrum, Auction, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Marketing, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Webcomic: When fanboys grow up
- The wisdom of xkcd explains how geek fanboys may grow older, but they never really grow up. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Wisdom, Geek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- The Threat Within: The dangers of unrestricted employee use of Corporate IT Systems
- Conventional wisdom has led us to believe that external security threats - such as spam, viruses, phishing, trojan horses - cause the majority of security incidents. While this may be true, too few companies are paying sufficient attention to the very significant issue of internal threats from...
- Tags: Clearswift Corp., Information Technology, Wisdom, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spyware, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Management
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Notable Quotables (exe)
- Because one head cannot hold all of the wisdom in the world we bring to you Notable Quotables. A simple yet rich database containing folk wisdom from around of the world. Here you will find inspirational thoughts, humorous musings, and cynical barbs from thousands of the greatest minds and sharpest...
- Tags: Shareware, Wisdom
- Software downloads 2007-02-01
- Temple Of Tangram (exe)
- Do you seek wisdom, inner peace, and truth. Take yourself out of this cold, harsh world and embark on a transcendental adventure. Choose your own path on your quest for the legendary hidden Temple of Tanagram. Enrich yourself with wisdom and experience as you puzzle your way through amazing landscapes....
- Tags: Wisdom, Sales Tools, Sales
- Software downloads 2006-12-20
- Be proactive in your fight against malware
- Spyware and adware have become a very real threat for organizations, but most detection programs remove malware after it's already done the damage. In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins discusses the merits of proactive security and explains why it's better to know whether a Web site is potentially...
- Tags: Spyware, Cyberthreats, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, INTERNET, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, spyware, security, spyware removal, adware, malware, Security Solutions Newsletter, Web, Wisdom, Web Site, Web Browser, Mike Mullins, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2006-11-30
- How to tell when you work for a rogue IT organization
- As IT managers and project managers we work for, oddly enough, groups dedicated to information technology. As such we see things from the perspective of our technology - preserving data, protecting the company assets, and enforcing governance or standards which will somehow better the organization as a whole. ...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-24
- Three tricks for staying abreast of changes in your project environment
- The way that projects drift down from on-high is, for me at least, one of the most frustrating things about project management. Im not very good at simply doing what I am told. I like to know why a change should be made, what impact it will have,...
- Tags: Choices, Foundations, Frameworks, Google, Information Overload, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Labor Shortage, Long Term Goals, Management, Management Skills, Practices, Project, Project Management, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Making the space and time for strategic thinking
- I have found myself being pulled in about a thousand directions the last couple of weeks and the song, “That old familiar feeling” seems to be haunting me. I know where I need to be focused, but lately I find myself being dragged back into fighting fires--a management mode I...
- Tags: Management Skills, Managment, strategic thinking, Time Management, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- Three effective ways to anger people in meetings
- Weve all found ourselves in meetings where things rapidly drift off track. Conversations drift off track. Ideas are conflated, strange concepts breed in the conversational undergrowth, and an enraged leader eventually tears off his shoe and pounds on the table. Eventually a dead horse comes wandering in so everyone can...
- Tags: Values, Meetings, Meeting Rules, Wisdom, elephant
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- PopUp wisdom (exe)
- PopUp Wisdom displays famous and not-so-famous quotes and humor at a timed scheduled. Easily add your own messages and reminders. Easily enable and disable multiple books to be used simultaneously.
- Tags: Humor, Wisdom
- Software downloads 2005-10-14
- How to destroy a project team in four easy steps
- This will be a short blog entry this week. My wife just gave birth to our first daughter and Im not thinking too much about project management or work. Really, Im not thinking about anything other than sitting around looking at the marvel my wife has brought into...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Management Style, Management Skills, Violation Of Trust, Wisdom, Management, team
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- Exploring the relationship between project management and sales
- Some of us are blessed enough to work in an environment we know and love. We have an extensive network of contacts built up over years of fraternizing. We know all of the players, their relationships with one another, and our relationships with them. The people who...
- Tags: IM, job, Project Management, Project Manager, sales, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Practically iterating infrastructure projects
- Iterations, iterations, iterations. Every time you look at project methodologies they talk about “iterative approaches” or “short development cycles” as if they were a panacea for all the ills of modern IT. In some ways they are; keeping things short and concrete, with tangible results, does do wonders...
- Tags: hardware, iteration, Project Management, Project Manager, Project Planning, rack, Review, server, software, Team Management, Values, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Don't assume malice when a mistake may lie at the root of all evil
- I sat down the other day to try and comb though a clients operational data. He had two server monitoring systems, four network monitoring systems, a very nice facility monitoring system, a project management server running the latest in commercially available software, a legacy project system which still didnt...
- Tags: Career, Communication, Courtesy, Decision Making, IM, It Management, Listening, Management Skills, Monitoring, network, Project Management, team, tool, Tools, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Pay attention to the small details rather than worrying about big events
- Theres a huge list of books telling us “Dont Sweat the Small Stuff”. They are, uniformly, well-written and uplifting to read. However, for project management, they kind of miss the point. Project management isnt about not sweating the small stuff; its about paying attention to all of...
- Tags: adjustment, Project Management, Project Manager, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- A New Year in project management
- So, its the start of another year as a professional project manager and consultant. Another year to spend dealing with deadlines, negotiating for resources, and mitigating risks before they become issues. Another year of project teams, insane pressure, and punctuated progress masked under mass hysteria. Definitely something...
- Tags: Project Management, Project Manager, Uncategorized, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Wit and wisdom (exe)
- Wit and Wisdom is a clever Windows screensaver, designed to keep you amused and enlightened when your computer is idle. Every 15 seconds or so, your screen will be refreshed and updated with a clever thought, a famous quotation, or witticism. It contains more than 2,900 quotes and words of...
- Tags: Shareware, PC, Wisdom
- Software downloads 2005-05-24
