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New Old Toys

Take a closer look next time at the toys your kids are playing with and you may notice just how out of date some toys are.  And yes, there are some classics that will never go out of style, or at least have a nostalgic appeal to the parents, but those aside, there are some …

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Nodes

Let’s face it.  We’ve all done it – depicted processes, functions, entire systems, organizational departments and other such complex concepts as nothing more than self-contained, orderly boxes on a diagram.  Connected with lines implying relationships, dependencies and potential impacts, these models are widely used to understand the Big Picture and/or solve a problem.  I admit …

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Retirement

The traditional concept of retirement is showing its age. Perhaps we need to retire it. Retirement seems like an abrupt and in many ways unwelcome career death – one day you’re a business professional, the next, you’re at home, watching soap operas and obsessing about your lawn. Having a smoother, longer transition could allow the …

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Home Credit

It’s been a long time since I carried cash. And more importantly, regretted that decision. Recently, with iPay introduction, perhaps even carrying a piece of plastic in one’s pocket will go the way of the Dodo. What hasn’t kept up with the times, at least to my knowledge, is the allowance economy between parents and …

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Working On The Go

I’ve recently tried going cold turkey – traveling for business without a laptop – accompanied with just a smartphone and tablet of the common fruit variety (hint, hint). This left me feeling liberated on one hand from lugging a lot of heavy, bulky and power hungry hardware, but, on the other hand, with a sense …

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Price2Meet

A few years ago, I found myself within a PMO of a large corporation struggling to defend my Calendar from the onslaught of daily meetings, many of which lacked a proper agenda, often inviting too broad of an audience and produced little in the way of decisions of the kind that could move an issue …

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