Friday, April 15, 2005

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1195656.htm#transcript very interesting article that discusses how emotional pain such as rejection is mapped to the same spots in the brain as physical pain and that another part of the brain activitates to try and regulate the emotional rejection through writing for example or sharing with friends. UCLA Brain social psychology 9:55:02 PM    comment [] Outsourcing exec: tougher to do background checks in India. Checking the backgrounds of employees in India is more difficult than in the United States, an executive of the outsourcing company at the heart of a $350,000 bank fraud case said... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com I read this and just shake my head.  THe fact that background checks can be harder doesn't mean the consumer is supposed to accept or expect a breach.  It means the employer needs to have tighter control and processes.  It is either in the front end, along the way with checks and supervision or on the back end in terms of audit logs (remember those Corporate amerika?) that varies that normalities and highlights out abnormalities.  We do it with fraud  we do it with all sorts of other things and if you can't count on get employees that won't sell from the customers, you better be doing it in outsourcing. Immaturity in the industry is NOT an excuse when the baseline processes are known from just running a business.  This type of excuse really ,really torks me! 12:58:13 PM    comment [] South Park Conservatives: Snapshot of the Culture Wars. By Edward B. Driscoll Jr. / TCS — Permalink One of the side benefits of presidential elections every four years is that it allows for fairly close readings of where America's culture as a whole currently stands. That's one reason so many books on the topic are released shortly after each presidential election's conclusion. Read remarks from Orrin Judd, Jonah Goldberg, Betsy Newmark, and Ed Driscoll. [memeorandum] 12:52:42 PM    comment [] Identifying the Business Value of What We Do. Resources in our organization are usually tightly constrained -- not enough time, money, or people to accomplish everything we want to improve. Knowing how to identify and communicate the business value of a project will substantially help it get approved and supported by the organization. Jared talks about the key five business value areas and how to relate design improvements into the overall success of the organization. Read this article [UIE Research Articles] Useful structure for working through business value.  Wish I was teaching so I could do it as a case study 12:36:06 PM    comment [] Women and Technology [Edu_RSS] Good discussion of the same old same old we are hearing about women and technology, that is, that women are not in technology. This writer reacting to the other writer points are that women are here. I am SOOO tired of this gender war stuff. We will let anything get in the way of the real issue.  Now, who will argue that that is an evolutionary leftover? 12:34:13 PM    comment [] Why I Hate Wall Street. Wall Street preys on ignorance by pretending that investing is harder than it is. [The Motley Fool] Good review of why the advertising approach to money management is not something to tie oneself to. 12:30:01 PM    comment []

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