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SAP, the conservative German software company announced a month or so ago that it will pay out $ 381 million in 2010, to a few hundred managers, if the company is able to increase its market cap by 100% from a $57 billion starting point in 2006. The explanation to...
There was report today on the radio about a warning given to British soldiers serving in Iraq: do not phone home on your cellphone! The Iraqi insurgents are tapping into cellphone calls made by soldiers back to their families. Its not the content of these calls that...
Virgin Mobile South Africa intends to have 300 000 subscribers within 18 months from its joint venture with Cell C according to a business report article. So Richard strikes again, this time in the soft underbelly of the cell phone market in South Africa, a highly...
Virgin Mobile South Africa intends to have 300 000 subscribers within 18 months from its joint venture with Cell C according to a business report article. So Richard strikes again, this time in the soft underbelly of the cell phone market in South Africa, a highly...
Its true, Bill Gates, probably one of the most famous and richest boomers has announced his resignation from Microsoft Corporation. Whilst this will only take place in the next two years, it certainly is a significant time in the life of Microsoft and the computer and...
Conversations about knowledge continuity often relate to succession planning and the retirement of key older leaders. While these considerations are obviously important, they can mask the fact that, these days, business critical expertise and knowledge often reside...
It is a worldwide trend that women do not pursue MBAs as much as men. A recent Stanford lecture gave some insights. Pursuing an MBA is a career choice. Its no use doing the degree without a plan for the next decade of career advancement. MBAs ratchet you up to a...
A nice thought about today's two youngest generations, from the Toronto Star, 20 June 2006. It's time for Gen X to start reminiscing about the good old days, as a new generation comes of age, by Jen Gerson As useful as Generation X has been at popularizing piercing,...
A nice thought about today's two youngest generations, from the Toronto Star, 20 June 2006. It's time for Gen X to start reminiscing about the good old days, as a new generation comes of age, by Jen Gerson As useful as Generation X has been at popularizing piercing,...
For a few years now, Robert Kiyosaki (and many futurists and economists), have been predicting that when the Baby Boomers start to access their retirements funds, there will be a huge impact on the financial markets. Right now, Boomers are in more debt than any...
There's a company in the US called 'American Apparel'. They're well known for being a 'non-sweat' shop business that gives everyone who works for them a better deal than possibly other T-Shirt Manufacturers. Google them to connect to links that describe some of who...
At the moment, one of the pains in the Human Capital side of business is the ‘War for Talent’. With the global village increasing the mobility of our top employees, and the increasing skills shortage in certain key areas Organisational Talent is a commodity as...
In the opening lines of the original Star Trek series captain James T. Kirk introduces the episode with the phrase "Space: the final frontier"?. Today there is a new frontier being crossed by society. A frontier no less foreign, intimidating, and in some people's...
In the opening lines of the original Star Trek series captain James T. Kirk introduces the episode with the phrase "Space: the final frontier"?. Today there is a new frontier being crossed by society. A frontier no less foreign, intimidating, and in some people's...
For millennia Stories and the telling of stories have been central to human existence. From the Hunter-Gathers who told of the day’s conquests around the fire, to friends who tell of what they were doing in December 2004 the exact minute the Tsunami hit while on...
Why do we struggle so with telling stories? Kids don’t struggle in this regard, and perhaps nor do we when with friends, around a meal, in a pub or over a braai (or barbeque for the less initiated). The practice of storytelling is central in any culture with the...
One of the many reasons I like Firefox - the free, open source web browser - is that the community supporting Firefox continually comes up with little applications, called extensions, that through a simple installation process add great functionality to my browsing...
I picked up on a great Fortune article on the CNNMoney.com site about MySQL, the open-source software designers, over the weekend. It unpacks the dynamics of this completely decentralised organisation, and just what makes it tick as well as it does. This, according to...
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