Sat.Jan 08, 2011 - Fri.Jan 14, 2011

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Information Overload: How to Master It?

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By Guest Author Stefania Lucchetti. On the 4th of August at the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that “ Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. " This humongous number is mainly due to user-generated content (pictures, messages, tweets etc.). The new technologies allow not only fast production but especially instant distribution of information: this leaves us with a permanent processing deficit

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Talent Shortages from a Changing Workforce

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By Guest Author Steve Trautman. "Who is going to do all this work?” That was a question I recently heard from an executive running a major engineering organization. . He has a familiar combination of challenges including 40% of his employees and 70% of his leaders ready to retire , competitors trying to poach his strongest mid-career talent plus problems attracting (and retaining!

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What is Your Desire?

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Religious teaching offers desire and fear as the two great tensions we have to deal with in our lives. Supposedly there are two cherabim's according to teaching, those of desire and fear that guard the gates of heaven. "It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.