Wharton Professor Galit Sarfaty just published a paper on changing norms in international institutions, using as an example the advance of the human rights agenda in the World Bank . The study describes the process of how new norms are adopted – or not – in large organizations and how different factions negotiate their positions
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Establishing Norms in Large Organizations (Or: How to Win the Turf War)
Here’s an idea for your next performance review: Do what the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do for their annual evaluation by the board of directors — write a self-assessment that helps guide the conversation. What you write will be a valuable tool for the performance review and, even better, a custom guide for your own development. Ongoing self-assessment is one of the five zones of strength that leaders have and non-leader managers don’t, according to one of our ongoing workplace studies (pdf).
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For a Better Career Outlook, Look Inward
Five years from now, will we look back on the dismal unemployment that we’re suffering on Labor Day 2010 and see this year as the good old days? Within today’s official unemployment statistics hides the true cost of decades of economic mismanagement: Historically unprecedented levels of unemployment and underemployment. The Great Recession that officially ended in 2009 has left millions of Americans without jobs for longer than the worst economic period in modern history — the early 1980s
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Are These the Economy’s Good Old Days?
By Sharon Halkovics, Director of Home Cook Classes We’re aware that Home Cooks can oftentimes fall into one of two camps: those who follow recipes and those who wing it. Of course there are cooks who do both, but leaning strongly to one side versus the other is somewhat of a style-thing, but also somewhat dependant on one’s level of cooking experience. I personally ‘wing it’ most of the time (always have), but I do so especially in summer and fall months when the garden is happily producing and I’m trying to be thrifty to use up every precious item I grow.
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No Recipes Required
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The humble tonsillectomy has been at the center of controversies over practice variation, inappropriate surgery and avoidable harm for decades; indeed, well before the terms to describe those problems were formally articulated. Now, thanks to the recently…
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Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots
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Hi All, I'm interested to start a mother toddler group in south bangalore around basavangudi… where we would discuss the issues n share experiences, come up with innovative ideas to interact better with our kids. thank u, Sushma
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start up a mother toddler meet-up group in n around Basavanagudi
A few weeks back, I had a personal remote support experience with my dad, more specifically helping him out with transliteration in gmail by showing him how it works as I directly controlled his computer’s mouse and keyboard. I had to take this drastic step after about 1 hour of trying to explain how it is done over the phone, continuously countering his ever present ‘I don’t understand computers’ attitude
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Faster and smoother connection process for Remote Support
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FEEDBAG: Sunday works, cooking classes, beer news … – Food …
Here’s a tattoo rule of thumb: Only get one if your job entails shooting people, if you’re an ultimate fighter, or as a safety issue, if you find yourself wrongly incarcerated, and displaying your affiliation with the Aryan Brotherhood will help make prison showers less eventful. Otherwise, let your skin go commando. via Ask Matt Labash Vol
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Ask Matt Labash Vol. XXVII: An anti-tattoo manifesto, letting kids be kids, and playing the deaf card | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion,…
Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Early Amethyst’ Through my 10 20 30 many seasons of gardening, I’ve come to realize that September is just as important a month in deciding how the garden will look in the springtime, as May is for deciding how the garden will look in the summertime. September… it’s the fall May, at least in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden
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September – The Fall May
I’m sitting in David David’s 3rd VMworld 2010 session on 10 Best Free Tools for vSphere Management. It’s his third session because the first two (one on Monday and one earlier today) were packed and people were actually waiting outside the door trying to get in! I guess everyone really loves free tools! Up on the stage with David is Kendrick Coleman who is chiming in on his impressions of all of the free tools from his experiences with using them. Kendrick actually rated these free tools and has a whole list of free vSphere tools on his blog
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VMworld 2010: 10 Best Free Tools for vSphere Management
The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now solid Antarctic ice sheet — 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick — points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago. A schematic of a seaway created by the partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (on left).
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Sea Creatures Hint at Recent Trans-Antarctic Seaway
Apple unveils the Apple TV–now considerably smaller, with new and improved features like photo sharing, Netflix streaming, and TV and movie rentals.
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Apple TV has gone streaming
The Wall Street Journal reported on a study in Health Affairs entitled ” A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals ” by Harvard researcher Ashish Jha and colleagues.
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Similar Conclusions on Health IT Via Observation and Via Research: Is HIT ‘Mission Impossible’?
An Android app, WiFi File Explorer , allows you to set up a web server on your Droid phone. You can then download or upload files via a web browser.
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In the "Because we can" Dept.
The sign in the men’s room at the college gives clear instructions on how to wash your hands to prevent the spread of diseases and/or cooties. But, the follow-through is a bit lacking.
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I want to do what’s right
Apple announces iTunes 10, available immediately, which comes with a new logo and a social music service called Ping that lets you see what your friends are listening to and make comments and recommendations.
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iTunes 10 gets social with Ping
As you drive from Templeton Center on Baldwinville Road to, um, Baldwinville, you come around a corner and see this: Even if you’re expecting it, it’s still a surprise, as though something from War of the Worlds has jumped into the woods. It’s the new windmill located behind Narragansett Regional High School. The town’s municipal light department has just brought the generator online.
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A mighty wind in Templeton