Feature Articles
The
Net Result: How Internet Blogging Has Transformed The Everyday Workplace "NEW"
Blog - Facebook - MySpace - YouTube: Four words that have not only changed today’s
lexicon, but have also created new issues for today’s employers. Incidents
of “blogging gone bad”are steadily appearing in workplaces.
By Bull, Housser & Tupper
LLP, May 8, 2008
Housing Markets
on Shaky Ground
There's no shortage of housing markets that look like bubbles
waiting to burst, but economists say Canada has become one
of the safer places in the developed world to own residential
real estate.
By Lori Mcleod, April 30, 2008 (Reprinted
with Permission from the Globe and Mail)
10,000 Women
Arguably, investing in education for women may have the highest social return
of any investment.
By Faye Mallett, April
25, 2008
Am I a Manager or
a Leader and Why Does it Matter to Me?
We all have leadership roles in life. Most of us have multiple roles where we
need to set a direction and mobilize people towards it - both at work and outside.
By Chris Henderson, April 17, 2008
The New Norm
Sarah James doesn’t have to worry about finding a carpool partner.
The 65-year-old from Long Island, N.Y., rides three days a week with
her granddaughter
to a nearby warehouse store, where they both have regular shifts.
By Adrian Brijbassi, April 10, 2008
Australia
and the "Looming Dragon"
Last year China replaced Japan to become
Australia’s biggest trading partner. Now, according to recent
coverage in The Economist, Australia can’t “dig fast
enough” to meet China’s demand.
By Faye Mallett,
April 3, 2008
Greenwashing
Have no doubt. Greenwashing comes in a sophisticated package. We may
not always detect the extent to which we are "greenwashed," and
this is exactly the intent. Like whitewashing, the term it is derived
from, greenwashing masks
the truth with a glossy image, the right spin, and a captivating design.
By Faye Mallett, March 28, 2008
Low-Wage Work:
Myths & Facts
Facts brought to you by the Fairness
Initiative
on
Low-Wage
Work.
By The Editor, March 20, 2008
Tipping
Elements in the Earth's Climate System
Global change may appear to be a slow and gradual process on human
scale, however
a number of key components of the earth’s climate system could pass their ‘tipping
point’ this century, according to new research led by an international
team of scientists.
By The
Editor, March14, 2008
Online
Ad Spending – Are you investing in Social Networking?
In terms of online advertising and marketing, companies have a lot
to gain by investing in websites like MySpace and Facebook, the current
two “network
giants.”In fact, with more marketers experimenting with this new medium,
worldwide online social network ad spending is projected to jump from $1.2 billion
in 2007 to $2.1 billion in 2008. By 2011, it is projected to be at $4.1 billion.
By Faye Mallett, March
6, 2008
The
Clean Coal Debate
Given that coal is also the world’s largest
source of C02 emissions – the main culprit in global warming –coal
plants are at the top of the list of global warming threats cited by climate
scientists.
By Faye Mallett, February 21, 2008
Burning
Coal - The Clean Way
Burning coal to generate electricity is one of our planet’s major sources
of carbon emissions –the primary gas blamed for global warming. Producing
electricity with coal is therefore one of the pivotal issues in the conflict
between our energy needs and our environmental needs.
By Faye Mallett, February 21, 2008
Mature Workers Vital
to Success
How important are workers 50 and older to a nation’s economy?
Steve Wing will tell you.
By Adrian Brijbassi, February 13, 2008
Fire-Fighting
at the Office
Fire-fighting is still an insidious pattern in a lot of organizations. It causes
untold frustration, overwhelm and stress, not to mention the larger productivity
loss costs to an organization. If you find yourself fighting fires more than
a few times a week, consider putting that energy to better use and volunteer
at a crisis centre or even the local fire department.
By Christina Sestan, February 7, 2008
Wearing
Technology on your Sleeve
You think the switch from typewriter to computer was
a revolution? In the near future many of us could be interacting with
computers inserted into our own clothing.
By The Editor, January 30, 2008
Employee
Health and Wellness Programs - Pt. 2
Wellness programs are instrumental in keeping people healthy,
especially in office environments where employees are often sedentary
for significant portions of the day.
By Faye Mallett January 25, 2008
Social
networking: Trends and Traps
The web has outgrown the stage of personal
websites and crude file swapping, as well as the age of "pure" electronic
commerce. The web of today is based upon social networking.
By Tatiana Andronache January 16, 2008
Employee Health
and Wellness Programs
Over a decade of research has effectively shown that employee wellness programs
help to create a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce. Indeed, wellness
programs may be one of the few employee benefits that pays money back to the
organization.
By Faye Mallett, January 9, 2008
Out of the Red
and into the Green: Transitioning your company from paper to paperless
Electronic agreements and digital signatures are no longer the future; they are
here and ready to ease the burden on many
aspects of business communication.
By Reed Clayton, January 3, 2008
A World-Changing
Idea
For the last article of the year, The Galt
Global Review brings the first of an on-going series focusing or
companies, organizations and individual people creating positive
and peaceful change in the world. Stay tuned for more profiles
such as this in the up-coming year.
By The
Editor, December, 27, 2007
Green Collar Careers
Employment related to environmental sustainability and ecological trade
is anticipated to grow in the decades to come, leading media pundits
to call blue collars "green."
By Faye Mallett, December 16, 2007
Designing a Team
Jesse Hopps finds himself in a position familiar to many employers
these days. He is running a successful business and has ambitious
plans to grow it, but
finding the right people to help him build his enterprise isn’t easy.
By Adrian Brijbassi, December
12, 2007
By-passed
oil revitalizing
the economy
New developments in technology are making bypassed
oil a resource that could potentially increase the United State’s crude
oil reserves by 10 times the amount.
By Faye Mallett, December 4, 2007
Doors Open Wide
for International Students
For all the talk of building walls and reducing traffic through America's borders,
there's one group of visitors who continue to enter the United States in record
numbers. And Americans are enthusiastic
to have them.
By Adrian Brijbassi, November 27, 200
Open-Source
Innovation
With scientific research being strongly dependent
on external funding, the drive for profit has created intense competition and
secrecy amongst scientific communities, and there are many who question what
this does for scientific advancement. Innovation is suppressed, critics argue,
in this climate of competition and security.
By Faye Mallett, November 13, 2007
The Next Generation
Builds Green
Over 55 million students in the United States spend their days in schools that
are hazardous to their health. This is because conventional schools are designed
to only meet minimum code, which holds no specific objective towards creating
healthy and productive learning environments.
By Faye Mallett, November 6, 2007
Private
Health Care A Growing Business in Canada
Procedures, such as plastic surgery, that are not covered under the Canada Health
Act have historically been provided by private practitioners. In recent years,
however, doctors and entrepreneurs in the medical field have started to offer
services that are covered under the national health program. Economically speaking,
they are filling a demand.
By Adrian Brijbassi, October 30,
2007
Energy Management
According to Tony Schwartz, president and founder of The Energy Project
in New York and a co-author of The Power of Full Engagement (Free
Press, 2003), when
people are exhausted, disengaged, getting sick, and leaving their jobs, they
are in the thralls of a full-blown "energy crisis."
By Faye Mallett, October 16, 2007
The
Business of Emergency Preparation
A recent report in the New York Times cited numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics that estimate a need for 14,000 emergency-management specialists by
2012, which would mean an increase of nearly 3,000 positions in 10 years.
By Adrian Brijbassi, October 9, 2007
Remote Surgery:
The Cutting Edge in Medicine
Telesurgery may still be in its infancy, but
the availability of greater bandwidth; improvements in communication technology;
and increased computing power, have moved it out of the realm of science fiction
and into the operating room.
By Faye Mallett, October 3, 2007
Riders for Health
Riders for Health (RfH), a UK-based organization founded by former motorcycle
racer Andrea Coleman and her husband, journalist Barry Coleman, offers an innovative
solution to assist developing countries in their need for reliable transport.
A member of the Make Poverty History campaign, the organization has worked
for over 15 years on creating solutions for health care delivery in Africa.
By Faye Mallett, September
24, 2007
Heads
of State
While women make up 50% of the world’s
population; they represent just 10 of our world leaders. Here is a
snapshot of the women who are currently elected as head of state for
their country.
By The
Editor, Sept. 19, 2007
The colour of business
When Deputy Chief Jim Chu was appointed as the Vancouver Police Department’s
new chief — the first Chinese-Canadian to achieve that post in any major
Canadian city — it didn’t really raise any eyebrows, but attention
was certainly focused on his ethnicity.
By Margaret Jetelina, September 12, 2007
The Science
of Intention
One recently-published book on the subject is The Intention Experiment, written
by science writer and award-winning journalist Lynne McTaggart. By posing the
question: Can our thoughts influence the world around us?; McTaggart makes a
comprehensive investigation of the subject in her study of athletes; analysis
of the leading evidence in neuroscience; psychology; and the latest findings
in physics.
By Faye Mallett, September 5, 2007
Impact of a Declining
Dollar
In what seems like a cruel trick typically reserved for parlour
games, Todd Ariss has witnessed his revenues shrink before his
disbelieving eyes. The now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t
switch is a result of the evaporating worth of the U.S. dollar.
By Adrian
Brijbassi, August 29, 2007
International
Polar Year Begins
March 1st saw the launch of International
Polar Year, a research collaboration that will bring together 50,000
scientists and support staff from 63 countries. Involving more than
200 projects, the "year" will run until March 2009 in order
to cover two full annual cycles in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
By Liz Kalaugher,
August
22, 2007
Gaining
Financial Smarts
Whether it’s the stock market or the real estate game, investing isn’t
for novices. That’s why financial planners exist and why retirement accounts
force us to store away money until we’re, presumably, wise enough to know
what to do with it.
By Adrian Brijbassi,
August 15, 2007
BC's Hydrogen
Highway
Many BC companies are developing innovative ways to use hydrogen in
a commercial context, giving the Canadian province a reputation for
being a world leader in hydrogen and fuel cell technology. Some have
even gone so far as to dub BC the "silicon valley" of the
hydrogen world.
By Faye Mallett, August
8, 2007
Career
Development: A Perspective for Employers
Employees will often develop their careers with their same employer
if they can foresee challenges in their future and increasing opportunity
to develop new skills, receive promotions or make a lateral move. To
achieve this, organizations must make clear the link between career
development and business priorities.
By Faye Mallett, August
1, 2007
Australians
Get TiVo
Tom Rogers characterizes the digital revolution in
broadcasting as a shift from decades of “consumer choice” to
a new generation of “consumer control”. His challenge
as CEO of TiVo, a company that packages the latest digital technology
into one complete home entertainment system, is to convince television
viewers to put down their hand-held remotes for an upgrade that
will zap them into the future.
By Adrian Brijbassi,
July 25, 2007
Designing
for Privacy
Without doubt, privacy is an issue we all feel strongly about. We see the growing
numbers of TV cameras in the streets. We hear about biometric passports and are
warned frequently by the media about the dangers of identity fraud. We know that,
on the one hand, advances in surveillance and identity management technology
have the potential to provide great benefits. On the other, they also carry the
risk of damage and failure, depending on their usage and depending upon their
design.
By Faye
Mallett, July 18, 2007
The Jugular Question
Consider the possibility that everything we know today about our world emerged
from somebody who first became curious about something and then framed a question
around it.
By Faye Mallett,
July 11, 2007
A Profitable Investment
Monica Villasenor believes commercial real estate is a profitable sector that
anybody can invest in. Her own experience proves it.
ByAdrian Brijbassi, July 4, 2007
Research Shows Greater
Self-Reliance
Everyone has their own agenda when it comes to their career. Why should
organizations
care about this?
By Faye Mallett, June 27,
2007
Buying
Back Our Carbon Footprint
While the concept of carbon neutrality dates back to at
least a decade, it has only been in the last two or 3 years
that interest in this market has exploded. Beginning with
a few innovative companies and individuals looking for an
opportunity to “do the right thing”; trading
carbon emissions is quickly becoming an environmental commodity
market.
By Faye
Mallett, June 20, 2007
A Second
Life
A collective virtual universe, complete with its own landscapes,
economy, currency, and culture, Second Life is shared across
several thousand servers worldwide and is
inhabited
by millions of so-called “residents.”
By Tatiana Andronache,
I.S.P, June 13, 2007
When
Words Hurt
Search for “workplace bullying” on the Internet and
you will find a plethora of websites, articles and books devoted
to describing, analyzing and
eliminating the behaviour. Bullying is a widespread and enormous problem that
seriously affects productivity and the emotional well-being of those who are
bullied. Luckily, interest in the topic is booming while tolerance for the behaviour
is waning.
By Trilby
McGaw, May 2,
2007
The
43 Hour Day
Every morning, most of us wake up to the sound of an alarm.
The radio is playing. We turn on the television. We log onto
the Internet, check our E-mail, answer the phone. We text
message a friend, join an IM conversation, often all before
8am. And this is just the warm up for a typical day in 2007.
By Trilby McGaw, April 25,
2007
The
Hardest Part About Being A Manager Isn't The Work
Supervision in the workplace can be a challenge and is often the part of being
a manager that we’re least prepared for.
By Adrian Brijbassi,
April 18, 2007
US Labor Market
- March 2007
Although the US economy seems to be slowing slightly according to recent reports,
the March Employment Situation Report released by the U.S. Department of Labor
shows that the labor market is still in great shape.
By Shelley
Brennan, April 11, 2007
A Choice
Of Where To Live For Skilled Workers
Leaving home is a part of life. Relocating to a far-flung
destination, though, is largely a result of politics and
economics.
By Adrian
Brijbassi, April 4, 2007
Beyond
Web 2.0
Just as we keep hearing and reading enough about Web 2.0
to realize that something “hypernew” is happening
to the web, here is another term to digest: Web 3.0.
By Tatiana
Andronache, March 28, 2007
Free
Our Data
Is it fair for the government to charge you to access data
that your taxes have already funded?
By Faye
Mallett, March 21, 2007
Wellness
In The Workforce
Considering how the majority of people
spend at least a third of their day or more at their workplace,
it is no wonder then that workplace environments have a major
influence on national chronic health issues such as obesity,
diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
By Faye
Mallett, March 14, 2007
Online Advertising:
A Growing Domain
With the growing number of online users, the audience of online advertising is
anticipated to be huge. Businesses can capitalize on this by using the internet
to keep in
touch with customers through newsletters, chat rooms, and promotions on their
websites.
By Faye
Mallett, March 7, 200
Finding
The Market Price
Finding a reliable resource on current market compensation rates can be a frustrating,
time consuming and expensive endeavor. Employers searching for current salary
rate information typically will find they need to pay for it, and even then,
the information available to purchase is usually released once a year, causing
the information to become outdated soon after the data is released.
By Faye
Mallett, February
28, 2007
Black
Coal: An Industry In Debate
The New South Wales Minerals Council launched a major
campaign yesterday in Newcastle – to “hit back” at
recent calls for the coal industry to be phased out.
By Faye Mallett,
February
21, 2007
Black
Coal: An Industry In Demand
Within a time frame of only five years, mining for
black coal has grown from a $10 billion industry to a $30 billion
industry, becoming Australia’s largest export and the country’s
fastest growing industry.
By Faye Mallett, February
14, 2007
Up
For Debate: Bush's Healthcare Reform Proposal - Part 2
Last week, we looked at the details of Bush’s new health
care proposal. This week, we will look at what supporters and
opponents of the plan are saying.
By Shelley Brennan, February
7, 2007
Up
for Debate: Bush's Healthcare Reform Proposal -
Part 1
President George
Bush recently unveiled his plans for health care reform with
a new proposal aimed at reducing the number
of people without coverage, as well as addressing tax code disparities within
the current American health care system.
By Shelley Brennan, January
31, 2007
Language
Translation In The Global Age
Most business and technical people all over the world
are fluent in English. With globalization and communications
technology spreading standards and uniformity, the natural
expectation would have been for the English language to marginalize
the usage of national languages in business. Yet globalization
has brought along an unlikely companion: localization.
By Tatiana
Andronache, January 24, 2007
The Nature
Of Ambition
In literature, ambition is consistently portrayed as a complex attribute that
can swing a protagonist from hero to villain upon a single act.
By Adrian Brijbassi,
January 17, 2007
Labour
Optimization
Reduce unneeded overtime; create a more flexible workforce; and match labour
to customer demand. These are the challenges that face modern management as
companies
seek to reduce the amount they spend on labour, while at the same time try
to increase the quality of their service to customers and clients.
By Faye
Mallett, January 10, 2006
Web 2.0:
The Next Generation World Wide Web
The internet has set remarkable precedents for change
within the past decade. Since the late 1990’s, when
Netscape revolutionized the internet by making it possible
for people to publish their own web pages and use it for
more than just email, the world wide web (WWW) has brought
startling innovations to the ways we conduct business,
to our social interactions and to the ways in which we
find,
store and retrieve information.
By Faye Mallett,
January 3, 2007
Positive
Global News Events Of 2006
Please enjoy our end of year “round-up”of
some of the more positive news events, trends, research and initiatives
that occurred in 2006.
By The Editor,
December
28, 2006
A Laugh
A Day
Comments and reflections about laughter have existed in our culture since the
time of the early Greeks, who spent time reflecting and theorizing about the
role of laughter in a healthy society.
By Faye Mallett,
December 20, 2006
Looking
Forward: Food Security In The New Millenium
According to a study released in 2003, only 17 European
countries have enough access to the amount of healthy fruits,
vegetables, meat, and dairy products required for all residents
to meet their basic needs.
B Shelley Brennan, December 13, 2006
Overqualified,
Eh?
Immigrants have to have a good sense of irony while looking for a job
in Canada - when they apply for positions at their skill level, they're
told their qualifications
are not good enough; when they apply for lower level positions, they are told
their qualifications are too good … they are "overqualified."
By Margaret Jetelina,
December 5, 2006
Sentinels
In Space
By combining the collective
power of satellites with fieldwork done by health workers and
various agencies, diseases can then be predicted, prevented,
and prepared for.
By Shelley
Brennan, November
29, 2006
E-Learning:
Education Without Borders
In the past, a typical educational institution would pilot
a few online courses for a limited number of students. Now,
through distance education, students have increased opportunities
to earn graduate level degrees and diplomas from most major
institutions worldwide.
By Faye Mallett, November 23,
2006
When
You Shouldn't Tell It Like It Is
Many Americans believe that the only purpose of language is to convey information
and that information should be stated outright. But there are many reasons why
meaning should not be stated outright, why indirectness is useful and even necessary.
By Deborah Tannen,
November 15, 2006
Fuelling
Our Future
Can we go “flat out” on ethanol? This is the issue
at the heart of current debate over the viability of ethanol and
biofuels as potential substitutes
for oil.
By John Mathews
Service-Oriented
Architecture
SOA (short for Service-Oriented Architecture) is one of
the latest buzzwords in the IT community.
By Tatiana
Andronache, I.S.P.,
November 1, 2006
Social Networking: The Virtual Way
MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Craigslist, LinkedIn, Nerve,
Meetup, Tickle and SecondLife.com – ask any of your
twenty to thirty-something co-workers or cohorts, and chances
are they’ll know exactly what you’re talking
about.
By Faye
Mallet, October 25, 2006
Where
Houses Lead, Will US Consumers Follow?
Homebuilding isn’t a large enough sector to bring the
US economy to its knees on its own, but would be if household
spending is destined to follow the housing market’s
dramatic cooling.
By Benjamin Tal and
Avery Shenfeld, October 18, 2006
For
Argument's Sake; Why Do We Feel Compelled To Fight About Everything?
Everywhere we turn, there is evidence that, in public discourse, we
prize contentiousness and aggression more than cooperation and conciliation.
Headlines blare about the Starr Wars, the Mommy Wars, the Baby Wars,
the Mammography Wars; everything is posed in terms of battles and duels,
winners and losers, conflicts and disputes.
By Deborah Tannen,
October 11, 2006
The Wage Dispute
This is not a story about union vs. non-union.
It is not a story of evil intent. Nor is it a story about profiteering.
Although it may reach into all of these realms, it is ultimately
a story about indifference –of how fellow workers can find
themselves tolerating the intolerable.
By Faye Mallett,
October
4, 2006
Advancing
To 2020
Where people live will have a major impact on how new technology
applications affect their personal health and standard of living.
People in advanced nations will gain the greatest economic economic
benefits from all major progresses in technology in the next 14
years, while people living in lesser advanced countries will benefit
only if they can overcome barriers to technology implementation.
By The
Editor,
September 27, 2006
Smart Productivity
Roland Pujol’s life leapt from fast-paced to warp speed one moment
16 months ago. The moment occurred when the New York based reporter
purchased the latest
in the recent trend of Personal Digital Assistants: the Treo Smartphone.
By Adrian Brijbassi, September
20, 2006
Tomorrow's
Climate, Today's Challenge
“Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the
human race. That is why I have made it a top priority for this government, at
home and internationally,” said Prime Minister Tony Blair in his forward
to the UK Climate Change Programme 2006
B Shelley Brennan, September 13, 2006
On
The Wire - Part 2
In a recent panel discussion in New York at the Associated Press,
former Vietnam
reporter and bureau chief, Richard Pyle, commented, "The military was remarkable
in Vietnam -- they not only didn't try to censor us, they made every accommodation
to us. There's never been a situation quite like that anywhere."
ByShelley
Lightburn, September 6, 2006
Seen To
Be Doing Good
What difference does philanthropy make? When the benefits of a
donation are intangible, or may not be realised for a decade or more,
assessing outputs is not straight forward. How does a donor measure
social returns?
By Gina Anderson,
August 30, 2006
To The Power
Of One
What if the power to change the world existed within your own home?
Thanks to the World Community Grid, a virtual super network of
hundreds of thousands of
personal computers, your idling PC can help unravel the mysteries of the human
body and lead to potential cures for such widespread diseases such as cancer,
AIDS, and Alzheimer’s.
By Shelley Brennan, August
23, 2006
The Brain
Game
Albert Einstein, the great German physicist, believed he
used only a small percentage of his potential. If Einstein
was convinced of this, can you imagine how the rest of us
fare? Take a moment from your busy day and ask yourself:
How much of your brain do you use?
By Faye Mallett, August 16,
2006
On The Wire:
Telegraphy, Commerce And The Associated Press
For years, sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists have studied the effects
of media on society and how news shapes the way people think. However, the news
profession, as a product and a purveyor of information, also drives technological
innovation and new modes of business.
ByShelley
Lightburn, August
9, 2006
Cell
Phones Dial Into Kids Markets
Giving the order to "come home now" has never been so easy
for a parent
to
deliver. The cell-phone industry has targeted the preteen market with so many
choices and products you might think the craze was inspired by a George Lucas
movie.
By Adrian Brijbassi, August
1, 2006
Sarbanes-Oxley:
Four Years Later
On July 31, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (commonly referred
to as SOX) became law in the United States following a series
of corporate financial scandals, including Enron, Tyco International
and WorldCom (now MCI), that shook the foundations of the
North-American securities business. This landmark legislation
becomes effective this year for all publicly traded companies.
By Tatiana Andronache, July
26, 2006
When Zero
Tolerance Policies Fail
As a diversity consultant, I’ve witnessed how proclaiming a “zero
tolerance” policy for harassment and discrimination does not deal effectively
with the issue of micro-inequities. These are the words and behaviors that are
not so blatant, are often “below board,” and are much harder to understand
without the willingness to listen and engage in cross-cultural conversations.
By Simma Lieberman, July 19,
2006
Water Solutions
In the game of state politics, grass roots pressure
can still change a government's mind. So much was demonstrated
when an accidental coalition of citizens groups, local government,
scientific and technical advice and media analysis defeated the
plans by the New South Wales Government to impose an expensive
and environmentally damaging desalination plant on the city.
By Russ Grayson, July 12, 2006
Value
Expansion: When Values Become Incongruent
Sandra Cha, an assistant professor at McGill University, and Amy
Edmondson, of Harvard Business School, recently published a surprising
study on both the rewards and risks of interpreting corporate values.
By Faye Mallett, July 5, 2006
Some
Facts And Predictions To Make You Think
A World Facts Feature.
By The Editor,
June 28, 2006
Talk
Of The Sandbox
BOB HOOVER of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was interviewing
me when he remarked that after years of coaching boys' softball
teams, he was now coaching girls and they were very different.
I immediately whipped out my yellow pad and began interviewing
him -- and discovered that his observations about how girls and
boys play softball parallel mine about how women and men talk at
work.
By Deborah Tannen,
June 21, 2006
Gender
Communications Differences And Strategies
What can your organization do to create more equality
for men and women? The first step to creating equality is understanding
the different strengths and styles that different genders bring
to the work table.
By Simma
Lieberman, June 14,
2006
Single
Mothers Make Gains
The Canadian Government has just released some startling
economic and employment statistics that provide insight into
the economic status of single-mother families in Canada -
the number of which have risen dramatically (70%) over
the past twenty years.
By Faye
Mallett, June 7, 2006
English
In A Multi-Lingual World
Two languages reached approximately one billion speakers
by the end of the 20th century: Mandarin, the official language
of China, and English, now the most widely used and studied
language of the world.
By Faye Mallett, May 31, 2006
The Windy City Goes Green
Chicago wants to re-invent itself again, this time as the “Greenest city
in America.”At the spurring of Mayor Richard M. Daley, who took office
in 1989, Chicago has been transformed into one of the most attractive cities
in the US.
By Faye
Mallett, May 24, 2006
Space
Flights: Now Boarding
Commercial space travel can no longer be conceived of
as the stuff of mere fantasy. By as soon as 2008, when
Richard Branson’s first SpaceShipTwo Flight is scheduled
to fly out of California's Mojave Airport, it becomes reality.
By Faye
Mallett, May 17, 2006
Next
Generation IT
IT has
spent the last 40 or some odd years automating business processes.
Now it is being called upon to step forward
and be a leader in business process innovation.
By Faye Mallett,
May 10, 2006
Ten Trends
To Watch
Companies that tap into the wave of current trends and developments are more
likely to succeed than those who struggle against them.
By Faye
Mallett, May 3, 2006
Australian
Fringe Benefits: A High Cost
Since its introduction in 1986, Australia’s Fringe Benefit
Tax (FBT) has grown to become a considerable compliance burden
on Australian businesses.
By Faye Mallett, April 26,
2006
Multi-Sided
Markets: More Platforms For Business
Multi-sided markets are certainly not a new phenomenon. Yet it has only been
within the last few years that economists have begun to view these markets as
entities within their own right, unique in the way they unite two or more markets
that seemingly have nothing to do with each other into one platform.
By Faye
Mallett, April 17, 2006
The Indebted
Generation
The weight of debt doesn’t only plague the bank account, it burdens the
psyche. Owing money — especially large amounts of it — spawns shame,
rage, seemingly endless frustration and a level of anxiety that shouldn’t
be felt in rich nations. When scores of people add up their net worth and come
up with a total of less than zero, crisis looms.
By Adrian Brijbassi, April
12, 2006
Trust
Relationships: The Work Of Karen Stephenson
It’s amazing how patterns, if you understand them well, can be shifted
and moved. When a culture shifts, then you can turn around small communities
and small nations even,” says Dr. Karen Stephenson, an anthropologist who
has been studying the human networks in corporate boardrooms for over 20 years.
By Faye Mallett, April 5,
2005
Global
Consumer Confidence Report
The ACNielsen Online Consumer Confidence Survey, the largest twice-
annual global survey of its kind, gauges consumers’ current
confidence levels, spending habits and current major concerns.
By The
Editor, March 29, 2006
Milton
Keynes In Najaf
Najaf, Irag and Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. On
map, and in culture, they could seemingly be no more different.
Najaf, founded in 791, is the burial ground to a prophet, and
Milton Keynes is a modern city designed upon the mantra “New
City for the 21st Century.”
By Faye
Mallett, March 22, 2006
A
Product Worth Buying
“You are the product,” says Barbara McCleave, a career
management consultant based in Long Island, N.Y. “And products
need good marketers.”
By Adrian
Brijbassi, March 15, 2006
Google
@ Animal Farm
Then: “Google does not censor the results
for any search term. Now: “It
is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to
local laws, regulations or policies, we may do so.
By Peter Meingast,
March 8, 2006
Riding
The Age Wave
The IT industry approached the millennium under threat of the Y2K “bomb,” yet
was able to defuse it in time for the first of January, 2000. But another time-bomb
has been ticking for some time now, one which holds more far-reaching implications
than Y2K. Some experts are calling it the “Age Wave."
By Tatiana
Andronache, March 1, 2006
Digital
Photography: The New Talk
Nothing stamps obsolescence more than a change in language.
Photography, which has seen many augmentations and enhancements since
its invention two centuries ago, is going through such a visceral
transformation that the words used to discuss it are as different as
the number of opinions on DSLR cameras and storage media.
By Adrian
Brijbassi, February 22, 2006
The
Development Of Adult Education
Today, the education of adults has spread through many facets
of society, including industry, commerce, health, citizenship,
and the arts and humanities. The gradual extension of formal
education to more and more people throughout the duration
of their lives has been a major preoccupation in what can
effectively be called the “educational” millennium.
ByFaye
Mallett, February 15, 2006
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Editor, February 15,
2006
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