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  1. ““The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young ‘incubator twerps’ strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp. Maybe try wearing a black turtleneck too.””

    www.joelonsoftware.com
    baetsie

  2. “A series of complex studies on judgment and decision making point to another, apparently very human phenomenon which scientists call base-rate neglect. The details of such experiments are highly intricate, but the outcome basically states that when assessing the probability of a future event, people often ignore background information in favor of case-specific information. Comparison studies using pigeons and humans indicate that this propensity to apply rules, often learned since childhood, could be a completely human tendency. In other words, because of our learning histories, we apply those histories to problem solving even when some facts indicate otherwise.”

    www.pmezine.com
    admelfo

  3. “The emotional intelligence of group members, in other words, serves the cognitive intelligence of the group overall. And this means that — wait for it — groups with more women tend to be smarter than groups with more men. (As Malone put it: “More females, more intelligence.”)”

    www.niemanlab.org
    protoslacker

  4. “Whereas most publications, even The New Yorker, demand adherence to a house style, "when writers want to pull something off in their own voices on the page, they have to come to Harper's," said one former staffer. Any piece that reaches print is a claim to a small stake in a legacy inherited from Mark Twain, Norman Mailer and David Foster Wallace.”

    www.observer.com
    protoslacker

  5. “Maybe that's the problem at Microsoft: they think they can solve problems by throwing lots of people at them. They put together large teams to build products. And large teams require managers. The last thing we need in software development are more product managers.”

    sachin.posterous.com
    thisisfranciswu

  6. “the times are not propitious for those hoping to liberate scholarship and teaching from harmful managerial schemes. Such liberation would also require a stronger and better-organized resistance on the part of the academy itself than we have seen so far.”

    www.nybooks.com
    protoslacker

  7. “The next time you’re stuck in a corporate staff meeting, wait until everyone’s eyes have begun to glaze over from PowerPoint fatigue and then get up and announce that what your company really needs is a lot more luuuuuv.”

    blogs.wsj.com
    missrogue

  8. “Just because a team is labeled the “social media team” doesn’t mean they have to exclusively use social media tools to communicate with each other and the rest of the community. There is a bit of a misconception about social media enthusiasts that portrays them as Facebook-crazed, Twitter-frenzied social media addicts.”

    mashable.com
    admelfo

  9. “In industry, 90% of time is typically devoted to executing business actions, and less than 10% is allocated for increasing organizational and individual capabilities through training. The military, on the other hand, spends as much time training as it does executing — even in the midst of high stress/high risk operations.”

    blogs.hbr.org
    jhamel