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Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues: The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-07
10 early signs that someone will make a great leader: It's important to identify individuals who have leadership potential so that you can help them step into that role when they're ready. Here are some behaviors and qualities that may indicate you have some promising future leaders on your team.This download is also available as an entry in our 10...; Tags: Leader, Bill Stronge, Leadership, Management; Download resources 2008-05-07
Wisdom of the Ages (exe): Wisdom of the Ages is an electronic book of quotes, sayings and ideas. It gives easy access to timeless knowledge from over 1,000 of history's greatest American, European and Asian minds. Improve your letters, reports, proposals and speeches with 6,561 carefully chosen thoughts. The intuitive organization lets you find excellent...; Tags: Wisdom, MCR Agency, Quote-A-Day Feature, E-books, Leadership, Construction, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-07
Army of Earth (exe): Army of Earth is an online action/strategy team combat game, allowing hundreds of players and up to 6 teams to play together in an open, outdoor 3D environment. It is easy to learn and use, but true mastery will require both strategic and leadership skills. Gameplay is drop-in/drop-out, with built-in...; Tags: Team, Earth, Army, Fundictive, Gameplay, Team Management, Leadership, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-06
The changing SAP culture: As Henning Kagermann, SAP's co-CEO prepares for what will probably be his swansong keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 2008 and Leo Apotheker, CEO-in-waiting prepares for the transfer in power, still a year away, a group of the Enterprise Irregulars were able to contrast the different styles of these two industry leaders....; Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Biotechnology, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-05

Instrumenting social responsibility: As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...; Tags: SAP AG, Stacey Monk, EpicChange, Web 2.0, Corporate Social Responsibility, Internet, Leadership, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Growing nano pine trees in Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have accidentally created nano pine trees with trunks and branches. As said the lead researcher, 'At the beginning we saw just a couple of trees, and we said, 'What the heck is going on here?' They were so curious.' In fact, this could lead to an...; Tags: Dislocation, Trunk, Productivity, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-02
10 reasons for IT failure: Readers of this blog know IT initiatives generally fail for business, organizational, or cultural reasons. Sure, technology screw-ups occur all the time, but that's one of the realities to be managed. Success or failure ultimately depends on how project leadership manages the full range of technical-...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, IT Leadership, Complex Project, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Ballmer still claims Microsoft might walk away from Yahoo: On May 1, Microsoft held an internal Town Hall meeting, largely (but not exclusively) focused on the company's bid for Yahoo. Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodget managed to dial into the call long enough to hear CEO Steve Ballmer say the sky's not the limit for Yahoo. ...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Roundup: Interop Las Vegas 2008: The big takeaway from the product fiesta that is Interop Las Vegas 2008 is that 10 GB Ethernet has finally arrived. Sister site TechRepublic has multiple folks on the scene at Mandalay Bay, here's a look at some of the key items (roundup): Implement...; Tags: Copper, Termination, NetGear, Access Point, Change Management, Leadership, Home Networking, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Networking, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley?: Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and "The New New Thing" - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Web, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-04-28
High-performance computing for Web 2.0: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Google are benefiting from high-performance computing systems.; Tags: Web, High-performance Computing, Web 2.0, Leadership, Internet, Management, High Performance Computing; Videos 2008-04-25
8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoat: Failed IT projects happen all the time, often to the amazement of participants who think they're somehow immune to IT problems. In my experience, most failures are caused by shortsightedness, complexity on both business and technical sides, and poor management. Anyhow, there are certain steps a...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, Project Manager, Strategy, Team Management, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Twitter's race for stability: VP Mighdoll out: Twitter's VP of engineering and operations Lee Mighdoll has reportedly left the company. According to Silicon Alley Insider, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Twitter corporate shuffling, Mighdoll has left the company. Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka reports that Mighdoll and...; Tags: Twitter, Silicon Alley Insider, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Leadership, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-24
10+ useless interview questions... and what you should ask instead: Interview prep guides are full of recommended 'tough' questions, but a lot of them are a complete waste of time. Here's a list of questions to avoid and some better ways to elicit useful information. Conducting an effective interview is one of the best opportunities you have...; Tags: Candidate, Erik Eckel, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; Download resources 2008-04-24
iRider (52): iRider is the Web browser hailed for innovation by the New York Times, PC Magazine and Wired. It provides the most elegant multi-page browsing features available, going far beyond primitive "tabbed" browsing, letting you work with multiple pages and sites far faster--perfect for shopping, research and reference. Flip instantly through...; Tags: Page, Wymea Bay, iRider, Security Administration, Patches, E-mail, Leadership, Performance Management, Web Browsers, Search, Security, Online Communications, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet; Software downloads 2008-04-24
Second Life appoints new CEO with "rare and unusual passion for Second Life": Linden Lab, the makers of virtual world Second Life, have announced the appointment of a new CEO. Mark Kingdon, whose current post is CEO of online creative/marketing agency Organic (of dot com bubble fame), will take over from former CEO and current chairman Philip Rosedale as of May 15th to...; Tags: Second Life, Leadership, Branding, Management, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-23
The new collaboration: Enabling innovation, changing the workplace: While companies see the value of innovation, they frequently fail to put the right tools in place to support those goals. The new collaboration will be built on technologies that enable easy knowledge sharing outside the firewall.Read this white paper to find how to collaborate and utilise these technologies; Tags: Innovation, Workplace, Collaboration, IBM Corp., Leadership, Groupware, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-04-23
Move to increase H1B visas: From TechCrunch: House Republicans are asking the Democratic leadership to act on Bill Gates' increasingly urgent calls for an increase in H1B visas for foreign high-tech workers. In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House Republican Study Group said: As a country, we are...; Tags: Republican, Leadership, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-21