On March 31, 2010

Think Before You Leap, Or How to Set Up a Successful Partnership

Relationships can be so easy to leap into, especially in your personal/social life. You tend to seek out people with the same interests, opinions, values, and outlooks on life as you. Like attracts like, and so forth. Your chemistry just…

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Have You Ever Pranked a Coworker?

Is it appropriate to pull an April Fools joke in the office? Does any kind of stunt cross the line, or are there some gags which you can get away with even in a conservative office?

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Breaking Ground for the Digital Homestead

Climate change, peak oil, and precarious food systems seem finally to have entered the realm of relatively mainstream discourse. Corporate employees now routinely discuss their gardening plans and dreams of a hobby farm over lunch. Photographs of

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The Season of Sustainability

Over the last couple of weeks, I have maintained radio silence, hardly blogging as I tried to prepare a manuscript for publication. This piece is not the usual analyst fare with charts and graphs and interpretations. It's

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Apple and Google Bury the Hatchet

The almost-war between Apple and Google is over, with the companies' CEOs, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, providing a photo op at a cafe in Palo Alto last Friday. We don't really care that the meeting was

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5 Signs That You Need to Get IN Your Team’s Way

No one wants to be a micro-manager, but if you don't know what's happening with your team, you could be in for some unpleasant surprises. Here are five signs that it might be time to step in.

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Google Wants to Protect Your Privacy. Ha!

Google decides to lead an effort against privacy invasion ... by the government. By corporations? Well, let's not get too carried away.

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Wynn Encore Gambles $67M on Adults-Only Nightclub, Pool

The new $67 million, adults-only Surrender nightclub and Encore Beach Club, a 60,000-square-foot complex with shipped in sand, three tiered pools and 40-foot palm trees and 26 cabanas, will open for business Memorial Day in hopes of luring jaded gamblers

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On March 31, 2010

Three Approaches to Innovation

Creating new markets for products and services is going to be one of the main drivers for kick-starting the global economy. This report gives some guidance on thinking about innovation in a strategic way.