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Continue reading →: Quality Metrics for Policy Evaluation?
The Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ) recently posted an interview with Roger Pielke, Jr., an authority on (as CEJ calls it) “the nexus of science and technology in decision making”. The interview seeks to provide a perspective on how journalists can more accurately address climate change in the context of…
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Continue reading →: Quality Impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change
Temperatures in central Alaska have been 60 below zero (degrees F) for two weeks now: Extreme temperatures — in Johnson’s case about 60 below zero — call for extreme measures in a statewide cold snap so frigid that temperatures have grounded planes, disabled cars, frozen water pipes and even canceled…
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Continue reading →: Inspection, Abstraction and Shipping Containers
On my drive home tonight, a giant “Maersk Sealand” branded truck passed me on the highway. It got me thinking about how introducing a standard size and container shape revolutionized the shipping industry and enabled a growing global economy. At least that’s the perspective presented by Mark Levinson in The…
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Continue reading →: 2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 4 of 4
This is the fourth and final installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. Today I have the privilege of bringing you…
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Continue reading →: 2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 3 of 4
This is the third installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. PART 3 of 4 – Clarke Ching’s stream-of-consciousness blog covers…
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Continue reading →: 2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 2 of 4
This is the next installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. PART 2 of 4 – Europe’s ”#1 Blog for Software…
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