Online gang culture

Penguins

Every day someone asks me to join their new online gang. They don’t call them gangs, of course. The buzz word is network. For sure some of the invitations have genuine merit. But most of them are just about gangs, set up to serve the leader’s agenda, rather than real networks of mutual interest.

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are recruitment agents a taboo subject?

recruitment poster by Metropolitan Police on flickr

This is a sincerely serious question, without any inferior motive: I wonder why we don’t see more people writing about their experiences with recruitment agents? Is it just a co-incidence, or is it a really taboo subject that candidates and publishers deliberately avoid writing about?

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a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling

Emperors and Sorcerers

skinner - sorcerer by blakewest on flickr

If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers?

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Return on Integrity

return of the light by AlicePopkorn on flickr

Many of us have seen the acronym ROI, used in a business proposal to claim hoped-for return on investment. But I believe that the term ROI more accurately reflects quite a different measure: Return on Integrity.

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effective risk management

the silent killer: Systemic risk

Nobody knows where the money went by Adam_T4 on flickr

Systemic risk is the silent killer of organizations and often goes undiagnosed until it is almost too late, just like uncontrolled high blood pressure in the field of human medicine. Continue reading article »

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