Pico Iyer: Where is home?
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Public-sector unions or government workers across the world have enjoyed a cushy deal for the past few decades. However, since the onset of the global debt crisis, the tables may be turning. Governments across the world (and particularly in the first world countries such as America, Canada and the United Kingdom) are being pressured to…
The usual quarrel in an improving organisation is that people must do two things at a time. Solve the daily problems and face the challenges that Lean evolution brings. (By Lean evolution, I mean all those changes that happen to a company, its people, their beliefs and behaviours, during the trip towards a Lean way…
Approaching a historic turn in U.S. monetary policy, Janet Yellen has staked her tenure as chair of the Federal Reserve on a simple principle: she’d rather fight inflation than another economic downturn. Interviews with current and former Fed officials indicate that Yellen and core decision-makers at the U.S. central bank are determined not to raise interest…
Welcome to Episode 29 – Malcolm Cawood – Kybernetica Topic: A Capitalist, a Socialist, and a Communist walk into a podcast. No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, just a bad podcast. Malcolm Cawood, owner of Kybernetica, joins Antlerboy and JP to discuss his ideas behind “systems thinking”. He certainly will share his fairly…
It is time for the top leadership in organizations of all sizes to recognize that an ad-hoc approach to managing e-mail is highly inefficient and an enormous drag on human resources. E-mail management: the prioritization, planning and archiving of e-mail should be systemized and standardized in every organization.
Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to guest lecture, usually at the Master’s level, at various Universities in Upstate New York. I find the experience very rewarding as I have the opportunity to bring value to the next generation. But, most importantly, I am always enriching my knowledge in the classroom…