Myron Tribus “Perversity Principle”: “If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.” Sadly all too true. He was [...]
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Speed reading
January 16, 2010
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With some quick techniques you can increase your reading speed and at the same time remember more of what you’ve read. You’ll still read every word – you have too. Missing out words is asking for trouble, skipping over a word like not, will change the entire meaning of the sentence. Having slowly read a report we then often forget what [...]
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September 26, 2009
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TED - Ideas Worth Spreading TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in [...]
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