Originally posted at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
There has been plenty of talk over the last few years about the need to attract talented Serbs from the Diaspora back to Serbia to lead the next generation of Serbian businesses with their unique blend of Western know-how and understanding of Serbian culture.
I have recently come across [...]
Originally posted on Combat Consulting
About 18 months ago started using my MacBook Pro for all professional work, ditching my Toshiba and making “the switch”.
Despite really loving my Mac, various professional conventions and some much loved software keep me running a stripped down copy of Windows XP in Parallels nearly full time. Apart from being just [...]
A recent Scientific American reviews of “Rethinking Expertise” by Harry Collins and Robert Evans got me thinking about the problem of “experts” and expert advice.
From the review:
This slim book by Harry Collins and Robert Evans offers a conceptual typology of “expertises.” The authors invent a plural form of the word to suggest that more [...]
A very heartening report from the UN on crime in the Balkans shows that the region is considerably safer than Western Europe, crime is falling and that the real problem - as I have long argued - is organized crime and its links to corrupt officials.
Here is the press release that accompanies the report:
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Klok is a tool intended to be used by individuals, like myself, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter. It is a desktop tool that requires the Adobe AIR runtimeKlok - Personal Time Tracking made Easy - Free Software
This goes well with his recent essay “Lessons from 4 independent years”
In 2003 I quit my management job at Microsoft to try to live by writing books, teaching and public speaking. It was the scariest decision I’d made in my life and here on the other side, about 4 years later, is what I’ve learned. [...]
Here is a round-up of some good Gannthead articles
Why Employees Jump Ship
Contrary to popular belief, lousy pay is not often the primary reason for quitting a job. Not that money isn’t important, but it’s seldom the primary reason most people change jobs.
If you take job insecurity as a given, statistics predict that you won’t be [...]
IBM and others are using Second Life and other virtual worlds to help with coordination and staff geographical and cultural barriers.
The (Virtual) Global Office
A really good article on how energy expensive the web is. Green Data Centres and energy awareness has definitely gone mainstream.
So you???ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn???t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an [...]
From Kevin Kelly:
You’ll be hearing more about sovereign wealth funds and flows in the future.
A sovereign wealth fund is a huge heap of money that is controlled by a nation — say Singapore or Saudi Arabia — rather than by a private transnational company. The latter is called private equity funds and their investments have [...]