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Failure is good: it's about learning. Mistakes are bad execution

Jamie Notter

On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. An organization can choose to view its mistakes as a form of human dysfunction, or it can choose to view them as a necessary condition for, as well as an invitation to, systemic learning and the building of new capacity.

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Performance Management

Jamie Notter

Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way –still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews–like these articles in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and Harvard Business Review.

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Tuesday Buzz: When Businesses Finally Quit Windows XP

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” A big part of what’s driving the growth is the ultramobile market, a section of the PC market where systems are smaller than 14 inches in size and thinner than 23 millimeters. . “This year, we anticipate nearly 60 million professional PC replacements in mature markets.” ” Speaking anytime soon?

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Mizz Information: If Your Members Organize Their Own Committee.

Mizz Information

At any rate, one of the thousands of SXSW things that flowed through either my Twitter stream or Facebook news feed caught my association eye-- the announcement of a new Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation, a "committee aiming to establish standards for (content) aggregation." It’s an imperfect. Like what you read?

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Google SEO Changes: It’s Time to Do Some Soul-Searching

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About.com, a similar property, saw its value decline steeply from 2005, when the New York Times Company bought it for more than $400 million, to 2012, when it was sold for around $300 million (not long after its parent took a huge write-down on it).

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It’s No Secret: What You Should Know About Secure Messaging

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Fast Company recently included Signal’s maker, Open Whisper Systems, on its list of most innovative companies of 2017. “By Chen wrote of the app in the New York Times in December. Thirty percent chose system or process malfunction and 28 percent chose hackers, as their most significant threat. percent).

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Women’s Studies Group Strongly Favors Israel Boycott

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The BDS movement, first called for by Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in 2005, is intended to evoke strategies used during anti-apartheid campaigns against South Africa. “This resolution is an act of transnational solidarity aimed at social transformation for a better world.” percent favored the resolution.