Michael Specht

The Office of Strategy Management : HBS Working Knowledge
From the Harvard Business Review on strategy implementation, thanks Gautam.
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In 2004 the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year was blog. In 2005 Oxford University Press selected podcast as the word of the year. It seems now Australia is finally catching on to this web 2.0 thing.
Sandra Hanchard from Hitwise Asia Pacific has published a post on the Weather, Web 2.0 and Wikipedia showing [...]

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Yesterday (Monday 27 March) marked the beginning of the new industrial relational environment in Australia called WorkChoices. While there is lots of debate as to how, when and where the new laws will impact time will tell as to how this new environment plays out in reality.
There are lots and lots of stories, article, [...]

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Imagine my surprise this morning when I when I logged on to see 210 spam comments waiting for my approval in Wordpress! That is one every 3 minutes, probably the time it takes for the script to execute, pick a new IP address etc.
By the look of things it is someone with a very [...]

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stone: One man’s trash…
Marc Cenedella finds an interesting use for Google Maps, trash collection across NY. Allows you to see a picture of the discarded item, forward the details onto a friend and indicated if the item has been collected. What a great tool.
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Corporate Engagement: Australian law firm urges clients to [...]

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A recent Wired Magazine article provides unique perspectives on learning and to a lesser degree recruitment.
The article talks about a senior manager at Yahoo who is a guild leader in World of Warcraft, a massive multi player online game. His position in World of Warcraft has provided him many of the necessary [...]

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(Via Gautam Ghosh .)
Job seekers in India can now SMS their resume to recruiters. The new service from IndiaHR.com called smsresume.com allows jobs seekers to post their resume on their web site and SMS an id to recruiters who then view the resume online.
While I don’t see it being used for all job applications, [...]

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Today the Xbox 360 arrived in Australia, yes several months after most of the world. I picked mine up from our local GameTraders at about 12:03am this morning we have been playing it all day. (As it is school holiday here I took the day off.) Very impressive.
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Systematic is looking for an employee, but not just any employee you must work with him full time in NY.
He is looking for an Employee Portal Operations Manager it is a business technology role, not a development or infrastructure role.
Candidate must be highly motivated, customer-focused, have a high energy level, and balance multiple priorities. Must [...]

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I have been on a bit of a self imposed (and not so self imposed) break. I have just not been motivated to either blog or read my feeds. The reasons, several:-
Firstly. Over the last 3 months I have not found many really, really cool things. There have been cool things [...]

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