The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Event: 27 Sep Brookings, Lunch with MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret), PhD Event: 29 Sep Afternoon AFCEA Auditorium NVa Nightwatch Concepts of Analysis Event: 1 Oct DC Why Design Now (Free) Event: 1-2 Oct 2010, NYC, Open Video Conference Phi Beta Iota: We are a huge fan of NIGHTWATCH and recommend that those who can, …
← The Real-time Debut of Engaging Emergence Making Sense Out of Chaos: An Audio Interview Posted on September 26, 2010 by PeggyHolman I did an interview on September 7th for the Community Learning Exchange –CLExchangeonair with Cheryl Fields on Blog Talk Radio. EXTRACT: Early in the book you tell the story of how your own perspective on …
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Rule 1: Understand the goals and expected outcomes of end-user information requirements Rule 2: Remove spreadsheet based reporting Rule 3: Establish a data quality competency centre Rule 4: Unlock your enterprise from the transaction-based application for reporting needs Rule 5: Get the analysis of your data done in-house Phi Beta Iota: CEO Mehta personifies integrity …
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How not to get the best from your people: doing things to people vs doing things with people I’m normally an optimistic kind of guy. Each month when I receive Harvard Business Review, I open it up thinking that maybe, just maybe, there’s been a change of heart. Maybe they have moved on from 1965. …
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The APT Tax Instead of personal income tax, corporate income tax, state tax, fuel tax, capital gains tax, gift tax. estate tax, excise tax, sales tax One very low universal tax Automatically and Immediately Collected No Tax Returns, No Lobbying for Special Interests, No Special Deductions Is it possible to have a system of taxation …
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There are differences between “learning” and “education,” but hopefully more people can be inspired to blur the two further than we currently see happening. Open Courseware, Audio and Video: Open Courseware Consortium M.I.T. Open Courseware M.I.T. open courseware YouTube channel List of courses by subject (May 2007) The University of Chicago on iTunes U, University …
Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers ASHLEE VANCE September 21, 2010 EXTRACT 1: But Oracle’s annual takeover of San Francisco pales against its larger ambitions — to supply just about all the technology, software and hardware, that businesses might need. This sweeping agenda has rattled the nerves of customers, who fear that Oracle has …
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