Archive for July, 2008
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Article: How Hard Could It Be?: Good System, Bad System
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Starbucks’ meticulous policy manual shows employees how to optimize profits. Too bad it undercuts basic customer service.
By Joel Spolsky
TIME Interviews Sir Richard Branson
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Here is a short interview with Sir Richard Branson, notable owner of Virgin Enterprises, where he answers 10 questions put to him by Time Magazine readers.
I’m currently reading his book “Screw it, let’s do it
Have a feel good Weekend
Friday, July 25th, 2008Sometimes we need to shake it
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Daniela Mercury – Dona Canô
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to suck the marrow from the bones of life; to put to rout all that was not life, and not to come to the end of life, and discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
Thought for the Day
Monday, July 21st, 2008“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
Mark Twain
Have a special Weekend
Friday, July 18th, 2008Love Song For A Vampire – Annie Lennox
Come into these arms again
and lay your body down
The rhythm of this trembling heart
is beating like a drum
It beats for you it bleeds for you
it knows not how it sounds
For it is the drum of drums
it is the song of songs
Once I had the rarest rose
that ever deemed to bloom
Cruel winter chilled the bud
and stole my flower too soon
Oh loneliness Oh hopelessness
to search the ends of time
For there is in all the world
no greater love than mine.
Love o love o …. still falls the rain
Love o love o …. still falls the night
Love o love o …. damned forever
Let me be the only one
to keep you from the cold
Now the floor of heaven is laid
the stars are bright as gold
They shine for you they shine for you
they burn for all to see
Come into these arms again
and set this spirit free
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008Mismatch problems – Malcolm Gladwell talk
Friday, July 11th, 2008
“The world has changed, but the way we hire people hasn’t”
Malcolm Gladwell gives easy to understand examples in sports hiring. Most methods used nowadays are inadequate to the current demands of the work world.
Here’s the video of the talk:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2008/gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference.