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Quality and Productivity Through Reflection
On April 9, 2009, Computerworld published a highly “Digg-ed” post entitled “Why Goofing Off Boosts Productivity”. This article highlighted some recent research results from the University of Melbourne that demonstrated the utility of occasional Twittering and Facebook-ing from work, and suggested some additional anecdotal reasons why “Internet slacking” might be productive. Productivity has been described…
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Solving the Bird Strike Problem
Public awareness of the danger of bird strikes to aircraft has greatly increased since the January 15 incident in which Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger expertly guided the crippled US Airways Airbus to safety in the Hudson River. On Friday, April 3rd, USA Today published a debate on airline passenger safety due to bird strikes. The newspaper…
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Getting Your “Work Mojo” Back
(This is being reprinted from one of my October 2008 posts due to overwhelming and unexpected positive response!) Productivity is totally dependent upon whether or not you actually want to be doing something. Psychologists and management scholars call this intrinsic motivation, but when it pertains to the workplace, I call it my “work mojo”. For…
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Management Improvement Carnival #59
I am pleased once again to host John Hunter’s Management Improvement Carnival, featuring some interesting or noteworthy articles that have been posted over the past couple weeks. Be sure to check out previous installations of the Carnival to get a broad sample of the most recent blog posts that are relevant to managers who are…
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The New Competitiveness
AIG is falling. Bailouts are flying. All of the rules of business have changed, and the seismic shift is both electrifying and frightening. But there are opportunities to be embraced, and many of them are summed up in this article entitled “Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy“. Here is my favorite part, a…
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How to Give a High Quality Presentation
I’m out in Colorado this week working with the NEON cyberinfrastructure team to put together presentation material for a big review meeting they’re having in June. It’s a challenging project, chock full of interesting and complex envisioned science experiments, elaborate engineering to design, construct and collect data from sensors scattered all over the country (and…
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Innovation through Quality: Insights from Neuroscience
New neuroscience research suggests that an intensive quality assurance “initiative” is launched in the human brain between the ages of 11 and 17. The March 23 issue of LiveScience reports: When a child is born, their brain is not fully-formed, and over the first few years there’s a great proliferation of connections between cells. Scientists…
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