Thank You to those that Inspired Me in 2007
December 31, 2007 1 Comment
I want to reflect in my last post of 2007. I want to thank the writers that inspired me to opine and post. I made a list of my posts that have a contribution from other writers. Please check out their writings (my post is the top one and then the article and the author is underneath).
Cherished
Times
Cloud
Computing or Chip Advancements?
- Google
Gets Ready to Rumble with Microsoft by Steve
Lohr and Miguel
Helft - Faster
Chips are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust by John
Markoff
Challenge
the US Middle Class
Too
Much Emphasis on Tests?
- Malcolm Gladwell. It is titled None
of the Above: What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race. Books like Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Accepting
Unconventional Risk
- Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia by Brent Bowers.
- Daniel Pink in a podcast I have from him
Economic
Pessimism
It’s
Not a Recession, But It Sure Feels Like It – Stats
- Income, spending gains slow by Chris Isidore
It’s
Not a Recession, But It Sure Feels Like It
- Katie
Zezema wrote Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts
Organizational
Leadership – Empowering Your Experts
- From Ants to People, and Instinct to Swarm by Carl
Zimmer - Robotic Roaches Do the Trick by MICHAEL
D. LEMONICK
Happiness
is Relative?
Business
Ethics Extremes
- STEVE LOHR ran this announcement from IBM
Next
Generation CEO
Age and
Risk
- Jason
Zweig titled Inside the Mind of the Older Investor
What
is Business Success?
Big Prizes
- Q&A
With X Prize Founder: Big Prizes = Big Breakthough by Jason
Silverman
Peanut
Butter and Pasta
- Anne
D’Innocenzio and is called Working
Class Stretched Thin
Does
College have a Future?
- Keisha
Lamothe article titled College Costs Keep Rising
Baseball
is Duped by Warning Track Power
- Chris
Isidore called A-Rod: A Bargain at $300 Million
Qualities
of High Earners
Are
Indian Companies Expanding Too Quickly? Part 2
9/11
and its Real Impact on the Economy
- Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece titled 9/11 is Over
Task
Accomplished: Efficiency and Productivity
- David
Allen called Getting Things Done: Guru David Allen and his Cult of
hyperefficiency
Business
Talk
- William
Saletan called The Double Thinker
Are
Indian Companies Expanding Too Quickly?
- Anand
Giridharadas titled Outsourcing Works, So India is Exporting Jobs
The
Next Management Stars: Divergence Generation
- Geoff
Colvin article How Top Companies Breed Stars
Paul
Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal
Metrics
Equal Accountability?
- David Weinberger is one the
featured writers for the Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Ideas of 2007
Type of
Genius
- Daniel
Pink titled What Kind of Genius Are You?
Reaching
People Creatively
- Rick
Rubin in a recent NY Times piece by LYNN HIRSCHBERG
Business
2.0 Loses to Business 1.0
Productivity
Pays – The CEO
- GDP
Growth Not Reaching Paychecks by unknown - CEO Pay: 364 times more than workers by Jeanne Sahadi
Migrant
Workers and the State Department
- Rising Breed of Migrant: Skilled and Welcome by Jason
DeParle
At
What Point Does It Stop Being Education?
- John
Cloud wrote a great article called Are We Failing Our Geniuses?
Tipping
Point Leadership
- Tipping
Point Leadership” by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Much of the Harvard
Business Review article can be found in the book Blue Ocean Strategy
A
New Effort to Crack Down on Illegal Immigrants
- Julia
Preston article titled “ US Set for a Crackdown on Illegal Hiring“
PowerPoint
Manipulation
- Benedict
Carey wrote an article called “ Who’s Minding the Mind?”
Using
Fables
US
Government Hiring?
- Anne
Fisher
Top
Earning Towns
- top
earning towns by Jeff Cox
Self-Determination
Theory
- Tom
McGrath called “Unleash
Your Potential
When
Discipline gets in the way
- Steve Lohr titled “At
I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource - Thomas Friedman called “China
Needs an Einstein. So Do We
Just-In-Time
Employees?
- Chris Isidore called Attention
shoppers: No jobs here
A
Matter that Caught My Attention
- Megatrends 2010: The
Rise of Conscious Capitalism by
Patricia
Aburdene
2007
12:47 pm
The
modus operandi of the Wall St. bonus system makes me want to puke. Off
Wall St., most bonus level employees accept the fact that there will be
bad years and definitely aren’t prone “bolting”. So many spoiled brats
on Wall St.
— Posted by Ellis Smythe
2007
1:15 pm
Ellis,
Until you have missed your son’s birthday party, canceled a family
vacation, worked back-to-back-to-back consecutive weekends or been so
preoccupied with work at dinner you can’t listen to what anyone is
saying, shut your mouth.
— Posted by Brendan
2007
1:49 pm
The
difference between Off Wall St. bonus employees and On Wall St., is
that Wall Streeters have greener pastures to “bolt” to across the
street. Thus, companies are willing to bend more to keep people from
jumping ship or a shop a subway ride or two floors below.
— Posted by John Galt
2007
4:09 pm
Brendan, a bit too harsh if you consider many entrepreneurs can say the same things (both in the good times and the bad . . .).
Although I think your sentiment is dead on, and too often missed by
some posters on this board, that the bonus-level employees on Wall
Street have a work ethic and a work culture that is more demanding than
90% of the jobs in existence. Most people do not understand this, and
in many instances are overcome with the “why do they get paid so much
if [insert generic argument here]”
The balance between keeping employees from bolting and a
salary/bonus structure that rewards/punishes good/bad performance on
Wall Street is one that hasn’t necessarily been perfected as of yet . .
.
— Posted by Derek