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  • Body Part Maker

    In the current economic climate, one restructuring follows the other. In my country there are some notable examples like AB Inbev, Opel (GM) Antwerp, HP, etc. At the time of writing this post, the counter of lost jobs in Belgium since January 2009 stood at   38,296   lost jobs   And this is “only”… Read more

  • Cubicle 3B23: Our company is infected !

    This week, our small innovation team got the opportunity to design and animate the department’s “All Hands”. In stead of doing the boring “we-tell-you-and-you-listen death by PowerPoint” session, we split the group in 8 break-out sessions. Each team was randomly selected, and the managers were NOT allowed to lead the discussion. Each team had 45… Read more

  • Web Evolution: The network is the database

    If you want to have a really good 23 slide summary of where the web is heading, check out Nova Spivack’s Web Evolution slide deck. Web Evolution Nova Spivack Twine View more presentations from Nova Spivack. There are some really good positioning slides as from slide #9 and following, to get a feel for the… Read more

  • If you can’t manage, measure

    I was just reading my Sunday newspaper online, and found this great summary by Gilbert Roox about Matthew Stewart’s book “The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong” The article is in Dutch, so i decided to use Google Chrome’s Translation extension. So, here are some translated extracts, SLIGHTLY edited as the Google… Read more

  • Ethical Re-boot

    UPDATE: Cool ! It seems that my site has been blocked from Myanmar 2 hours after posting this article. Now i really feel what freedom of speech means. UPDATE-2: added some other interesting links at the end of this post. I fully agree with Robert Scoble that Google’s threat to withdraw from China is a… Read more

  • Cubicle 3B23: message from Cubicle 3B21

    On the previous post Cubicle 3B23, I got a comment that i really want to give more visibility on the front-page. Here it goes:   Cubicle 3B21 is just across the corridor from 3B23; when both doors are open, we could see each other and talk (a bit loudly and to the annoyance of our… Read more