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Show what you mean

“Saying what you mean” may be a great way to build a strong friendship. It is not, however, a great way to build website navigation, or a presentation visual.
It is not that words are lame. They are wonderful, precise, meaningful. But they do not provide the immediate understanding visuals carry. Reading is a complex, fairly [...]

Leaders aren’t born. They are made.

“Leaders aren’t born. They are made.”
Vince Lombardi

The stroke of insight of Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist. So you will soon understand the extraordinary insight she got when one morning, she woke up with a terrible pain on the left temporal lobe. As a person, she was both living an intense connective experience and a struggle for survival against a stroke. As a scientist, she [...]

Gen Y + Gen X > 1.5 x Boom

I have always liked the style (and obviously seriousness) of Deloitte publications.

The 3 Concentric Views: Strategic, Operational & Tactical

This series of patterns patterns for thinking and visualizing reality.
Principle of the pattern
The same reality can often be seen differently depending on the perspective you you observe it from. This is true for a landscape, a scene, as illustrated (more or less successfully) by the recent movie Vantage Point. In the movie, various characters see [...]

Free Software Foundation

The FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom — learn about our history and work.

The More Loving One

Here is yet another poetic intermission.
        The More Loving One           by W. H. Auden
Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars [...]

Moesta and Errabunda

Here is a new poetic intermission.
        Moesta et Errabunda
Tell me, does your heart sometimes soar, Agathe,far from the dark sea of the sordid city,towards another sea, a blaze of splendor thatis blue, bright, deep as virginity?Tell me, does your heart sometimes soar, Agathe?The sea, the vast sea, consoles us for our efforts!What [...]

The sleeper of the valley (Le dormeur du val)

Here is a little poetic intermission… Details count, even the least of those, at the end.

THE SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY
There’s a green hollow where a river singsSilvering the torn grass in its glittering flight,And where the sun from the proud mountain flingsFire –and the little valley brims with light.A soldier young, with open [...]

Intranet trends

As I was doing some competitive research on Enterprise 2.0, I found this report by Intranet Benchmarking Forum, dated 02 January 2008, on Intranets and Portals Trends for 2008. In a nutshell? Prime time.
Where are intranets and portals going in 2008 and beyond? What will be the hot topics for intranet managers? The IBF charts [...]

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