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The Urgency of Now

The news about Sarah Palin broke today while I was working.  Where did I see the news?   Twitter (of course).  Seconds turned to minutes, and I found myself impatient with not knowing the inside scoop on the why behind the resignation.  What was the target of my impatience?  The Twitter community.  Seems ridiculous, but it’s [...]
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#fmrplant - July 3rd



#fmrplant - July 3rd
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Increase profits by working less

What's taking up most of your working day? Add up the time spent on the following: Receiving tasks from superiors Distributing tasks to subordinates Discussing these tasks to get more knowledge and clarify Emailing Phone and Skype calls Searching for...
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Solutions creates problems

Thingamy's first business task is to create problems. Worse, Thingamy's business is to create problems for the daily work of most people! Sounds like a rather bad business purpose or what? Not so, it's more to it: Solving problems is...
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Stop managing

If you like the occasional blinding flash of the obvious there's a book out - Management rewired: Why feedback doesn't work and other surprising lessons from the latest brain science by Charles S. Jacobs. Basically takeaway is that the annual...
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What (2006), Why (2007), now How (2009) for Enterprise 2.0

Yes, the baby was born in ‘06, started crawling in ‘07, and now is running around like a maniac with boundless energy in ‘09. The Enterprise 2.0 movement is now a healthy child, growing stronger and more willful every day (just a cabinet door away from getting into trouble…) I returned from [...]
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Let?s Take a Measure of our Declaration of Independence

Today, Friday July 3rd appears to be the unofficial July 4th Holiday from work for most in the U.S. -- except for the nearly 10% officially unemployed who are on a downturn holiday every day. And that figure doesn't include those whose unemployment b...
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What Led Thomas Global to Shutdown?

Yesterday, Spend Matters covered the story of Thomas Global's shutdown, noting in detail a number of the reasons that led to the decision to close its doors as well as the staffing and supplier advertising implications. I received a couple of emails ...
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Friday Rant: Certifications and Training Alone are Not the Answer to Career Growth

Earlier this week, Next Level Purchasing announced their latest certification, the SPSM2. Judging from the look of the curriculum, it seems like it covers quite a bit of ground and some in the industry have positioned it as a "masters degree" in purc...
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Taiwan Semiconductor and Solar Cells

“The world’s largest for-hire chip maker could soon start manufacturing solar cells and LED lights. The company’s entry into these nascent industries will catch the attention of existing makers, which could find themselves battling one of the most formidable manufacturers...

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Gmail Finally Ends the Folder vs. Label War – What’s Next? Find the Answer Here.

Bear with me for this somewhat long post, ‘cause I am not only discussing the sweeping changes Gmail made today, but in the end will also tell you what they are going to do next year – or perhaps after that.

Gmail Changes

The Gmail label changes announced today and to be released to accounts slowly (you may not see them yet, I only have them on one account) are ones that I’ve long been waiting for, and that most reviewers seem to underestimate, ...

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Green Flight Across the Atlantic

American Airlines is about to test eco-friendly new technology on it's regular flight between Paris and Miami this Thursday. 

Unfortunately it's still not the Flying Saucer design, but this much more boring Boeing 767-300 equipped with all the new technology.
What exactly that new technology is, is a bit hard to decipher from this highly buzzword-compliant article, but rest assured that:

It is critical that the aviation industry work with ou...
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Yes, Outlook is Broken, but Who Cares? Do You Really Want More Inbox Spam?

(Note to self: this post won’t make me popular... oh, well).  The last thing I can be called is an Outlook-fanboy.  I broke out of Outlook-prison long ago and never looked back, have consistently spoke up against how Microsoft abuses their users, but this time all I can say is the “Fix Outlook” debate is blown  out of proportion.

Yes, I also joined the tweet campaign, but only for fun to see my mug flash up for a few minutes.

I...