Kate Carruthers

Just came across this old post from Bob Sutton (well known anti-asshole activist) is worth noting - in summary according to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology: "Witnessing the harassment or uncivil treatment of women at work is bad not only for female employees, but for the

There was a tale in the news in 2008 of a disgruntled city IT worker who effectively blocked all access to the city network. Apparently the network continued to function  but he refused to hand over the passwords to management so they could administer it.  The story first first came

Back in November 2008, before the real seriousness of the global financial situation had become apparent, I attended a Retail Financial Services Panel Discussion & Luncheon in Sydney.   The topics proposed for the panel includes: * Competition and customer acquisition amid the credit crisis * Group strategy post-credit crisis - what will

Here in this TED talk Kevin Kelly talks about the evolution of technology.  Kevin is one of my favourite thinkers about technology and our relationship to us.  Here he asks "what does technology want from us?" http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf http://w.sharethis.

For anyone who's into human resources, social media and technology issues you need to know that my buddy,  Michael Specht, is running the HR Futures Conference in Melbourne on 26 February 2009. It's a one day event that will bring together speakers covering HR, Recruiting and