Blogs1 - 10 of 25 recent posts for tag:trade-offs
01
Jul
2009
Keeping Your Spirits Up During a Job Hunt  

4 days ago by Alora

Job hunting is rough for oh-so-many reasons. One of the things that is hardest about it, though, is managing your own attitude and spirits. If there is one thing that is liable to get you into trouble during a job hunt, it is unmanaged anxiety. I’ve written before about some of the things that I dis ...

The Pragmatic Contextualist - alorachistiakoff.com · 1 reference

18
May
2009
Strategic Planning Analogy #258: Just Add Milk  

48 days ago by Gerald Nanninga

THE STORY When my children were small, they were very fussy eaters. One of the few things they liked to eat was macaroni and cheese from a box. We tried pretty much every brand available in order to find the type of macaroni and cheese they would like the most. To me, all the brands looked about the ...

Planninga from Nanninga: A ... - planninga-from-nanninga.blogspot.com · 1 reference

15
May
2009
How Consumers May “Reset” Spending  

50 days ago by Caryn Goldsmith

“Reset.” We’ve been hearing that term in the news and elsewhere a lot lately. It took me a couple of weeks to figure out what was bothering me about the “reset” idea in the context of marketing. Sure, in tough economic times, we tighten our belts. The recent Time magazine cover with the red “reset” ...

Goldsmith Strategic Services - goldsmithstrategicservices.wordpress.com

12
May
2009
Drawbacks of Watermarking Photos  

54 days ago by tammy

Unfurling I started watermarking my photos this Spring as a suggestion to handle the rampant, uncredited use of my photography by people who troll Flickr. I don’t know yet if it’s helped control that problem, but it has created a few new ones: Flickr is no longer a clean back-up of my work. I don’t ...

Tammy Green - tammygreen.com · 1 reference

Drawbacks of Watermarking Photos  

54 days ago by tammy

Unfurling I started watermarking my photos this Spring as a suggestion to handle the rampant, uncredited use of my photography by people who troll Flickr. I don’t know yet if it’s helped control that problem, but it has created a few new ones: Flickr is no longer a clean back-up of my work. I don’t ...

Tammy Green - tammygreen.com · 1 reference

21
Apr
2009
Why Agile Isn’t Just for Development  

75 days ago by Alora

It’s been years since the evangelism for Agile development started truly gaining momentum. Super sexy buzzphrases phrases like “ reduce time to market,” “ improved ROI,” and “ lower development costs” have all been invoked to support the case for adopting an Agile methodology over the old-school Wat ...

The Pragmatic Contextualist - alorachistiakoff.com · 1 reference

17
Apr
2009
Pick Your Poison: mpg or safety  

79 days ago by Alexandre Padilla

Sam Kazman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute has an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today on the trade-offs between fuel efficiency and safety. In his piece, he discusses the results from a study produced by The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showing that ...

Economics For What Ales You - econales.com

11
Apr
2009
Nine Unemployment Survival Tips  

85 days ago by Alora

Not working is easily ten times more stressful than working — unless, of course, money is not a concern in your life. Unemployment or underemployment is difficult to manage on multiple levels, because — just to name a few examples — it has such a huge impact across all spectrums of your life: Financ ...

The Pragmatic Contextualist - alorachistiakoff.com · 1 reference

07
Apr
2009
Operational Effectiveness Vs Strategy  

89 days ago by João Rufino

I recently read “ What is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter (Harvard Business Review) and that gave me the idea to write a post mentioning briefly the concepts discussed in that document. Some people might claim that the article is outdated after more than 10 years but I really enjoy it and believe th ...

João Rufino's Blog - jpprufino.com · 4 references

25
Mar
2009
Read the phrase you wish to quote in the world  

102 days ago by Connor Mendenhall

Evan’s already covered the policy details of ASUA’s first “Be the Change” survey. I have two additional thoughts. First, the name. Gandhi’s oft quoted, apochryphally sourced admonition to “be the change you wish to see in the world” was once a wise call for revolution on the margin. But endless repe ...

The Arizona Desert Lamp - desertlamp.com · Rank: 93,769 · 20 references

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