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Common Sense KPI’s Gone Wrong
Read more: Common Sense KPI’s Gone WrongI love dashboards. I have a goals list on my phone tracking how many miles I’m supposed to run or ride on my bike. I have a trending graph on the device that tells my how much I weigh. The only reason I have not bought one of those fitness wristbands yet is because I…
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Commonizing Meaning
I have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is Taiwanese for highly unlikely or that’s ridiculous. (sp?) “Oh shiitake” (shitzu is also appropriate), is an imperfectly polite way of saying “oh &#!+” Basically, these are…
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Managing Thinking, Managing Knowledge
On March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe. In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it. …
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Decision effectiveness
A few years ago, i had a custom set of wheels made for my bike. I had the rims specifically weighed and picked out of a set of about 10 rims. I had the spokes weighed and balanced to make sure they were the lightest ones. The spoke nipples (the threaded parts that are basically…
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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already old technology. Sure, 3D is brand new, and its going to be around for a long time. But wearing glasses will be gone in a year…
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Perspective and Benchmarking
In my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must have a therapist (shrink for those of you in New York), who tells you that you have an eying disorder (if you are from Orange County,…
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Fusion HCM Website is Up
Just an FYI since this appears to be about the softest launch we’ve seen in ages. Considering we’ve been waiting for Fusion for a while. Here’s an FYI that the website is up and perhaps the software is in GA (but you’ll have to ask Oracle to confirm that) http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/fusion/hcm/index.html
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I Should Have Been A Rice Farmer
OK, I’m Taiwanese, and I recently went back to Taiwan to visit family and see the “home country” that I’ve never been to. As I stayed in the apartment my family had rented, surrounded by rice paddies on all sides, i realized how close I was to having been a rice farmer of some type.…
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Nerves and Decision Governance
What makes us intelligent, able to make decisions based on our surrounding and pdictions of the future is not that we have an emmense amount of knowledge packed into our brains. Rather, what makes us different as human beings is that we have a great deal of nerves and nerve connections. It is these connections…
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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. While you’re at it, you decide to put new walls up – perhaps a new powder room where…
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Nucleating agents for change
Interesting thing about water. You can pretty significantly influence the temperature at which water freezes simply by introducing an agent to it. But there are other times when water actually should freeze, when it is pure and below the freezing temperature, but that water can be held in a liquid state at just below the…