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Book Review: An introduction to organisational behaviour for managers and engineers

Chartered Management Institute

This is a useful compact volume which guides the trained and focussed professional who nevertheless has to work in shark-infested corporate waters, and who has to do more than keep her/his head down in professional work in order to survive and influence the politics of the multicultural firm. Reviewed by Gordon Harris FCMI.

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Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine

Chart Your Course

Gordon - 5/10/13. organizations had employment models based on hiring recruits from college or training programs who were likely to stay with a company throughout their career.Skilled workers are becoming an endangered species. Win the Race for Talent. I strongly encourage you to read this article. This is the FUTURE of the workforce!

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Improving Your Data Security Following These Guidelines

Strategy Driven

For rhyming purposes and historical recall, it would be nice if it were the year 1964 when Gordon Moore discovered what came to be known as Moore’s Law. Facilitate Recurring Staff Security Training. Consider the social engineering hack , as an example. But it was 1965, and the rhyme is kaput.

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How Systems Engineering Can Help Fix Health Care

Harvard Business Review

When an aircraft manufacturer decides to create a new model, it doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, and then put all the pieces together. But we had to focus because the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the project, wanted to ensure that we demonstrated results.

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In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ). I have order Gordon McKenzie’s book from the library and look forward to reading it soon. Thank you!!

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Are You Spending 1,000 Hours Preparing for Your Next Job?

Harvard Business Review

In 1966, students arriving at an engineering college were told that they would be obsolete in seven years. That's taking Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's bold prediction (now known as Moore's Law ) that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years to a far new level. And you may be right.

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Too Much Entrepreneurship Is a Bad Thing

Harvard Business Review

The Times piece was all about the new "War for Talent" in Silicon Valley , a replay of the battle waged more than a decade ago to recruit top-flight young engineers and coders from elite colleges and assorted countercultural pursuits. The startup bug has become a startup fever, and that fever may be driving many people to hysteria.

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