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Women: The State of Play via APESMA #equalpayday

APESMA 2009-10 Women in the Professions Survey Report has just been released and it contains some sobering reading about how women are still treated unfairly and inequitably in the workplace. As noted on the APESMA site: * Nearly 70% of respondents said that taking maternity/parental leave – including unpaid leave

What matters?

What matters?

A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company's new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small

Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour

Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour

Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business The issue of how well an organisation's values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it

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Big kittehs on drugs?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklx3j7kgJY&w=440&h=385] Source: Big Cat Rescue

Operating systems are merely hygeine factors ...

Many people in the IT industry don't realise that operating systems are not important to ordinary folks. We don't want to be bothered with things that live under the surface of our devices. This is one of the reasons Apple has made such inroads in recent

Sometimes this is the only thing to do on Caturday ...

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