Motivation Creating a vision Managing politics Manage transition Sustain momentum Can you crosswalk those five major activities to and AI approach? How can AI positively affect each of those? What can we do to reinforce new behaviors at the managerial level? Once the speeches are over and the awards have been presented we all […]
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Australia and Canada for the long haul
Jim Rogers : The faster numbers will be in economies that are well managed and that have commodities because commodities are in a bull market. Indonesia is doing much better this decade than it did in the 1990s because there was a commodity bear market in those days. Australia is going to do better than Belgium. […]
the president hides behind his daughters on the issue of gay marriage
the president’s re-election committee’s daily emails says that he supoprts gay marriage because his daughters wouldnt be able to understand why the same sex parents of their friends shouldnt be treated equally. because its a good idea to make your own moral judgments based on the sensibilities of children, rather than making an adult level […]
How is this sound judgment?
Munger said that unlike Buffett, who announced he is fighting early-stageprostate cancer, he doesn’t even bother to get his PSA levels checked. One of the few times I ever thought Munger was a dumbass
Santorum, the American Achmehdinejad, still taking himself seriously
No sense of self, no sense of decorum. At least 1 person still takes him seriously, and that person is holding an etch-a-sketch Related articles Did you hear this one from Santorum? (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com) Michael Falcone reported from Arbutus, Md., and Arlette Saenz reported from Harvey, La. (imageinme.wordpress.com) Everyone Loves a Good Etch A Sketch Meme […]
Conservatives to Axelrod: please keep talking
Its a conservative’s dream for Axelrod to take this show on the road: they hope he keeps talking
The lonely courage of the doctoral student
I continue to marvel at the willingness of the doctoral student to keep going bravely into the darkness, as each day they learn more about their field, only to discover how much more they don’t know. Each thing you painfully discover points to a new set of 100 that you don’t know, and now realize […]
Critical thinking seminar notes
Memo for: Record, and my personal learning journal Subject: Review of critical thinking workshop, 21 – 22 February 2012 Author: Ken Long Date: 24 February 2012 1. Administrative notes: presenter was Dr. Enoch Hale from the Foundation for Critical Thinking led by Paul and Elder, sponsored by School for Command Prep, featuring broad college […]
The importance of alone time: solitude and innovation
A long snippet, but it has important things to say about solitude, inquiry, creating new knowledge, innovation and scholarship: the importance of “alone time” from a thoughtful article Games, consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister compared the work of more than 600 computer programmers at 92 companies. They found that people from the same […]
Gingrich: an inch deep and a mile wide, his own anti-message
What a disaster for the Republicans Gingrich is. having had 3 years to craft a message of hope, growth, opportunity and fiscal sanity, they have found themselves worshipping the mouth that roared. Gingrich’s personal life evidences such a lack of discipline that it undermines the party’s claims of bringing sober, responsible, controlled limited government to […]