Image via Wikipedia Bob Riley, governor of Alabama, probably needs to get with Robert Gibbs to find out how that “corporate governance structure” thing is supposed to work, so that he wont embarass himself with statements like: “A key governor on Sunday blasted the lack of leadership in the US response to the worst ever […]
Month: June 2010
breathing = trading
ask yourself: “what is the crowd waiting for?” “What do they need to see?” What would confirm in their mind that the trade is NOW?!” learn to see it before it happens create separation between you and the crowd be on the edge of them, so you can sense the mood, but don’t be inside […]
Brits deliver a ritual spanking to Obama
the real world, where words and deeds have consequences beyond the PR value of soundbites and campaigns, our former allies, the people with whom we once shared a special and enduring relationship are opining on our Prez (kickin’ any ass lately, O?) Former foreign Secretary with sensible analysis The US will never take the blame […]
No more Easter egg hunts: promoting search and discovery in the classroom
Image via Wikipedia Think about how we assign readings and discussion questions. Let me exaggerate (am I?) and say that we: …engineer the amount of reading based on words per minute, and convert that into pages, and then assign “x” number of pages. We select readings that “surround” the answer we want the students to […]
how OD interventions need to be adapted to fit different cultural contexts.
Image by Okinawa Soba (In Asia and Africa until August) via Flickr Cummings and Worley acknowledge the importance of appreciating, if not understanding, the cultural context when considering an OD interventions. This includes culture on a national, regional, tribal, religious and ethnic dimension as well as the traditional social norms. They remind us that interventions […]
Some characteristics of transformational change
Image by Alex Osterwalder via Flickr Discussing the three kinds of interventions associated with transformational change, namely: culture change, self-design, and Organizational Learning and Knowledge management. Culture change: focuses more on the development of a strong, appropriate culture for the line of business, environment, workforce demographics and societal norms as a way to align organizations, […]
Integrated strategic change and how it differs from traditional strategic planning and traditional planned organization change
Image via Wikipedia Cummings and Worley define the concept of integrated strategic change (ISC) as a comprehensive OD intervention that examines how plan change that can add value to strategic management. The integrative piece looks at a synthesis of business strategies and organizational systems responding together to external and/or internal disruptions. This strategic change plan […]
appreciating intermediate term trends
examining the use of the slope of the 30 day regression line for understanding intermediate term trends in context
our ass-kickin’ president…
Image via Wikipedia I guess I am glad Spike Lee didn’t suggest that Obama should drop a bomb somewhere to beef up his street cred, yo’ Could Robert Gibbs (D-oofus) be any more clueless about how business runs than to suggest CEOs arent the real power in corporations, in defense of why Obama hasn’t talked […]
Swingtrading indices with pair trading
we know intuitively, anecdotally, that the indices of the world market move in and out of favor with SPY we know definitively that the degree of correlation varies based on market condition, and can change pretty quickly too this study looks at what happens if you had a pair trade between each of the main indices […]