The Black Budget
A nice infographics... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget
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Vacation policy
Want To Succeed? Don't Check Your Email - And Work Out At Lunch One Bandwidth policy supports all three: the company has (and enforces) a total embargo on email to and from the company during vacation. That is, when you’re on vacation, you may not communicate with the company and they may not communicate with you. ... The results? Employees experience vacations as vacations: rejuvenation, reconnection and relaxation. And managers put more attention toward developing their folks - because their folks can’t call them when there’s an emergency during their absence; they have to be willing and able to handle it themselves. Finally, Morken says, it makes managers more thoughtful about preparing for vacation: if you really can’t give added instructions or sort things out while you’re gone, it’s essential to get as much clarity as possible beforehand about what’s supposed to happen when you’re not there. He’s convinced that this has impact outside of vacation time, as wel...
Doing Your Job May Be Hazardous To Your Career
Fred Kofman: Doing Your Job May Be Hazardous To Your Career www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJFLR2f4rY Fred Kofman: Be A Player, Not A Victim www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXdN5kMioRQ
TED: Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life
Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sándor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning. Sándor Teszler: The Story of a Passionate Life Video Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life | Video on TED.com Background info http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/sandor-teszler-the-story-of-a-passionate-life The memoirs of Sándor Teszler http://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/teszler-memoir.aspx
Real Madrid Resort Island
2012-03-23 Real Madrid Resort Island: When an Emotional Brand Creates an Emotional Place http://madridismo.org/article/real-madrid-resort-island-when-an-emotional-brand-creates-an-emotional-place 2012-04-01 Real Madrid spielt oben ohne http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/die-koeniglichen-bauen-in-arabien-real-madrid-spielt-oben-ohne-1.1322954
Természetfilmek
Vad Magyarország Előzetes Teljes film németül Ecedemca Hungarica Előzetes: http://vimeo.com/35961817 Bevezető: http://vimeo.com/35968677 Háttér: http://www.ng.hu/Termeszet/2012/02/endemica_hungarica_bennszulott_ertekeink http://szmosonyi.hu/filmek.html
The Economist: China - The largest migration in history
The largest migration in history " Migration from inland villages to coastal cities has transformed China. Now that is changing, as regional cities inland become the new focus of migration patterns. " Video: www.economist.com/node/21548111 Article: www.economist.com/node/21548273
Future
A day made of glass http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38 Microsoft's vision of the computing future http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=peSYlJlg14E
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement TOC Theory of Constraints xxx http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LHRM2O
FoxNews: Budapest
FoxNews - Star Traveller: Alice Cooper about Budapest http://varosban.blog.hu/2011/09/15/budapest_romantikusabb_mint_parizs
EU plan to spend billions on boosting broadband speeds
The European Commission is set to propose investing almost €9.2bn (£8bn) in a massive rollout of super-fast broadband infrastructure and services across the European Union. ... The money would come from a new fund called the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). This proposed fund would also be used for new transport and energy projects, with the Commission and the European Investment Bank absorbing risk and boosting the projects' credit ratings. Part of the plan is for the CEF to pressure established telecommunications companies into investing more in their own networks, as they would not be the only ones able to bid for funding. New players such as water, sewage and electricity utility companies would also be encouraged to enter the broadband game with CEF backing, as would construction firms, cooperatives and public authorities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15320628 http://www.google.com/search?q=Connecting+Europe+Facility
Magyar Google logók (doodle)
www.goog1e.co.nz/Logos.asp?Action=Country&nValue=HU www.google.com/search?q=hungary&hl=hu&sitesearch=http://www.google.com/logos&prmd=imvnsb&source=lnms&tbm=isch
LEGO Design byME
Dreamt > Built > Design Is there something special missing in your LEGO collection? Would you like to add a professional touch to your personal gifts? Now you can make, shape & even order the toy you wish in a box you design yourself. Your ideas. Your creation. Your box - LEGO Design byME www.designbyme.lego.com Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier "And LEGO's Digital Designer lets consumers create models, brick by virtual brick, and then its Design by Me offering sends them the exact set of bricks it takes to build the physical model on their family room floor. While digital technology has been around for quite a while now, those businesses that fully embrace this dual nature of time, space, and matter — the ability to create value through actual and/or autonomous events, in real and/or virtual places, with material and/or digital substances — open up new opportunities never before envisioned, engendered, or encountered. With the full power of...
HBR: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think
"Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on average, and a schedule overrun of almost 70%. This highlights the true pitfall of IT change initiatives: It’s not that they’re particularly prone to high cost overruns on average, as management consultants and academic studies have previously suggested. It’s that an unusually large proportion of them incur massive overages—that is, there are a disproportionate number of black swans. By focusing on averages instead of the more damaging outliers, most managers and consultants have been missing the real problem. ... Any company that is contemplating a large technology project should take a stress test designed to assess its readiness. Leaders should ask themselves two key questions as part of IT black swan management: First, is the company strong enough to absorb the hit if its biggest technology project goes over budget by 400% or more and if only 25% to 50% of the projected benefits ...
The Economist: Green growth
Some emerging-world companies are combining growth with greenery "A new study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) identifies 16 emerging-market firms that they say are turning eco-consciousness into a source of competitive advantage. These highly profitable companies (which the study dubs “the new sustainability champions”) are using greenery to reduce costs, motivate workers and forge relationships. ... The most salient quality of these companies is that they turn limitations (of resources, labour and infrastructure) into opportunities. ... Nonetheless, the central message of the WEF-BCG study—that some of the best emerging-world companies are combining profits with greenery—is thought-provoking. Many critics of environmentalism argue that it is a rich-world luxury: that the poor need adequate food before they need super-clean air. Some even see greenery as a rich-world conspiracy: the West grew rich by industrialising (and polluting), but...
IndaVideózás külföldről
Elég értelmetlen hogy az IndaVideó nem nézhető külföldről, mégpedig azért mert igazából mégis nézhető. Gyakorlatilag egy magyar proxyn (átjátszón) keresztül kell az oldalt betölteni, aminek hatására "Magyarrá válunk" és máris nézhetjük külföldről is. A jól ismert hibaüzenet: "Drága néző! Úgy tűnik, ön vagy külföldön van, vagy az internetkapcsolata fut át külföldi közvetítőn. A filmek egyelőre sajnos nem elérhetőek Magyarországon kívülről. Dolgozunk rajta, hogy ez megváltozhasson, nézzen vissza időnként, hátha már jó. Köszönjük a megértést!" Illetve annak el(meg)kerülése: A böngészőhöz le kell tölteni egy Proxy bővítményt. Chromehoz: Proxy Switchy ( honlapja ) Keresni kell egy magyar proxy címet pl. erről az oldalról vagy erről . Telepítés után hozzunk létre egy Proxy profilt. A neve legyen pl. "Hungary" és adjuk meg a listáról kiválasztott magyar proxy címet, végül mentsük el a módosításokat. (Lásd a lenti képen.) Ezután az IndaVideo ht...
The Economist: Think different
Clay Christensen lays down some rules for innovators. But can innovation be learned? "Innovators are constantly asking why things aren’t done differently. This taste for questions is linked to a talent for observation." www.economist.com/node/21525350