Saturday, August 31, 2013

Weekend blogging -- sometimes combination is creation

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I was putting together a weekend blogging post of catchy songs and I started to throw in my favorite mash-up... but then I realized t...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Joseph was overly and insufficiently harsh with Nicholas Carlson's Mayer profile

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First off, when my co-blogger Joseph called this piece "a clever hatchet job," he was wrong. Having read the whole damned thing,...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

On the downside, when I make powerpoints they hardly ever have all that cute animation

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Frances Woolley has a good post up on piracy in the textbook market but she lost me on this paragraph: If students cannot be relied upon ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

More on rank (noun, verb and adjective)

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Following up on Joseph's recent posts on corporate incentive plans that use rank to assign nice carrots and spiked sticks, here are a ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Marissa Mayer: a continuing saga

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The recent unauthorized biography of Marissa ayer was a very clever hatchet job  thorough piece that quoted many critics of Ms. Mayer.  Dav...
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Stack Ranking Continued

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More on the Microsoft ranking system : This was my problem. I had three reports, A, B, and C, and they neatly fit into three categories: C...

Paul Krugman is not a marketer

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A marketer would spend more time discussing the tremendous role that brand has played in Apple's success. Other than that Krugman's...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Health Care and Complexity

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Aaron Carroll : That said, if you want to have a discussion on the merits of making the American Health Care system look like Singapore’s,...

Revisiting the growth fetish (kind of a relief to be agreeing with Felix Salmon again)

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Salmon has an excellent post , based in part on an equally good John Kay post , about the trouble people have with the idea of healthy contr...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Employee ranking

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I have actually worked under this system of employee review .  It is really as bad as it sounds as it forces political decisions about who w...
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The Great Non-Blackout of 2013

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From Variety : The current CBS blackout on Time Warner Cable systems in New York, L.A. and Dallas, now in its 21st day, is only the latest...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Details Matter

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I'm fascinated by business but between buzz words and reporters who are willing to publish press releases almost verbatim, I'm defin...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

More Motley Foolishness

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Just to pound the stake in a bit deeper, here's another reminder that, if you're getting you stock-picking advice from Motley Fool, ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Paging Mark P

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I remain deeply unsure of why people see Federal taxes as somehow being worse than other forms of tax : The position of the libertarian ...
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The Pleygo Proposal

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One of my jobs back when I worked in the financial services industry was to give analytic support to teams that came up with new products. I...