Here’s Faris al-Qaisi, a 47-year-old Iraqi cameraman for AP Television News, reflecting on “what it has been like to live through and record the war” in Iraq and on the declared end of the American combat mission there: For me, living in Saddam’s Iraq and in the Iraq under the U.S. occupation was equally hard, but I don’t want…

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Reflections of an Iraqi Journalist

Do you have an exceptional performer on your team — a person who stands head and shoulders above everyone else? If you do, it can be a wonderful gift for a manager to have an employee whom you can count on to get the right results; who thinks about what else needs to be done without being told; who doesn’t need to be pushed or motivated; who is always asking to do more. Unfortunately many managers don’t know how to deal with such exceptional employees.

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Leverage Your Top Talent Before You Lose It

It’s Labor Day in the U.S. as I write this post. To my own amazement, I’ve spent most of the past month truly relaxing — reading lots of books, playing tennis, running, hanging out with my family and eating food I mostly shouldn’t — scones and donuts for breakfast, BLT s and burgers for lunch

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Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity

When I told my mother that my husband-to-be was a consultant, she asked, “Does he work?” Mom was stuck in the mindset of Jobs 1.0. She had been in the work force when the knowledge economy was just emerging, entrepreneurs were considered a little strange, the only “real” professions were law and medicine, labor meant industrial and trade unions, seniority reigned, and careers involved step-by-predictable-step up the rungs of a tall ladder. In the Jobs 1.0 era, consulting was the fall-back face-saver for people who had lost their jobs

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Jobs 2.0: Nice Work If You Can Get It

The CFO charged with analyzing the pros and cons of a new product line wonders whether it’s time for her to stop facilitating — and start leading. Editors’ Note: This fictional case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your email address

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Case Study: Time to Take a Stand?

Both CNET and PhotographyBlog have pressed the shutter button on Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-LX5 in the past week, reviewing the new F2.0, 24mm Leica lens with 3.8x optical zoom and image processing engine. Canon’s S95 should be scared.

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First Reviews of Panasonic's Lumix LX5 Are Very Positive

I’m about to tell you the TRUTH about The Last Traffic Secret . I’m not sure what all you’ve been reading about “The Last Traffic Review”, but I’ll wager you it’s a bunch of mystery crap. You hear about all the traffic, all the commissions, how you don’t need know anything about SEO, building huge websites, etc

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The Last Traffic Secret Review

For the past year I’ve had a private affiliate program running, which allows my Elite Members to refer new members to my Private Brainstorming Group.

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My nightmare experience with iDevAffiliate + vBulletin & 3 things we are ALL responsible for

Setting up a blog is not difficult; however making money with it is another story. The route that is most often chosen is to decide on a theme for the blog and then add some Adsense advertising and some affiliate links with the expectation of attracting lots of targeted traffic and earning extra income through commissions and click through rates.

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How to Earn Extra Income with Your Online Business Blog

Incremental innovation and process improvements have always come from those closest to the problem. It’s the basis of kaizen, a system where employees continually improve manufacturing processes. It’s also a founding principle of Six Sigma — tap employees’ relentless, incremental quality improvements.

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IT in the Age of the Empowered Employee

Does your organization suffer from subpar operational performance? Have your costs, response times, or reliability slipped relative to competitors or versus customer expectations? Maybe your organization has Process Attention Deficit Disorder.

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Does Your Company Suffer from Process Attention Deficit Disorder?

A couple of months ago, I pointed out that any post-recession recasting of processes, practices, and positions must include changes to the CEO’s role, and suggested that the time had come for chief executive officers to transform themselves into chief enabling officers. Some of you agreed, others didn’t, and still others offered new ideas. Bernard Tsang, Mohammed Rehman, Mat Maynor, and Deven Pravin Shah , among others, added fresh reasons for bringing about change, while Mohit Jindal wondered if change should be paced out.

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Who’ll Catalyze Change: Us or Them?

”How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?” JM Coetzee’s honest, compelling and brave novel reminded me of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger , and it reminded me of Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . The writing has the same kind of quality of these other novels, in that it takes a simple story about a simple man and elevates it by way of language into a terrifying masterpiece. Huckleberry Finn is in there, too, of course, watching the river flow.

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Life and Times of Michael K

Not every critic loved the 2009 film Duplicity , starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. The British newspaper The Telegraph complained of a lack of “any sexual charge” between the stars, and a plot whose complexity is “sometimes overdone.” Slate called it muddled , and quibbled that a film should make “actual narrative sense.” But seemingly everyone who has seen Duplicity loves its opening sequence.

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Pseudo Competition

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?

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’?

This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper ‘The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders’ by Franz Vollenweider and Michael Kometer. This article will be available, open-access, until September 23

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Visions of a psychedelic future

The Chicago Tribune's Mary Umberger recently wrote a piece on our new Buyer Buzz feature. Check out the article to see how you might use Buyer Buzz to learn more about your home's value before you actually sell it. Here is an excerpt from the article: “You can prequalify to buy a house

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Test the market BEFORE you sell!

I spent the weekend in Atlanta at the Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop hosted by David Perdew. This is the 4th time I’ve attended and taught at “NAMS”, and I’ll be doing it again in January 2011.

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Back From The Niche Affiliate Workshop…