The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)
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The Productivity Myth – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
Quality, not necessarily quantity:
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Stop measuring your people by the hours they put in, and focus instead on the value they produce. Make that your primary measurement. Then encourage your people to intermittently renew during the day (and on weekends, and over vacations), so that when they’re working, they’re really working.
That’s the path to true productivity.
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Profiting by the Biosphere Rules – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
Featured Guest: Gregory Unruh, director and professor of the Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management at the Thunderbird School. He is the author of Earth, Inc.: Using Nature’s Rules to Build Sustainable Profits.”
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From The Smart Growth Manual (Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon), some “fave” points (picked by PlanetShifter):
1. Provide contextually appropriate modes of transit
2. Design and locate civic buildings honorably
3. Protect neighborhoods from high-speed thoroughfares
4. Expose natural amenities to public view
5. Satisfy daily shopping needs within each neighborhood
6. Link green areas into continuous systems
7. Encourage food production everywhere by everyone
8. Design for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as automobiles
9. Enclose street spaces with building fronts
10. Design parking lots for humans and cars
11. Design buildings to minimize thermal and light impactsClick through to article for details regarding each point.
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Poynter Online – How News Orgs Are Turning to Staff, Technology & Users to Improve Comments
“How News Orgs Are Turning to Staff, Technology & Users to Improve Comments”
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Depressing:
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The fact is that so far as leadership is concerned women in nearly every realm are nearly nowhere — hardly any better off than they were a generation ago. The following figures, from the American experience, speak for themselves.* 3% of Fortune 500 companies are headed by women (2009).
* 6 % of the 100 top tech companies are headed by women (2010).
* 15 % of members of Fortune 500 boards are women (2009).
* 16.8% of members of the U. S. Congress are women (2010).
* 14.5% of 249 mayors of U. S. cities with populations over 100,000 are women (2010).
* 21% of nonprofits with budgets greater than $25 million are headed by women (2010).
* 5% of generals in the U.S. Army are women (2008).
* 8% of admirals in the U. S. Navy are women (2009).
* 7% of tenured engineering faculty in four-year institutions are women (2010).
* 19 % of senior faculty at the Harvard Business School are women (2009-10).
* All ten Princeton University eating-club presidents are men (2010).This does not, of course, mean that there is no improvement whatsoever. Rather it is to point out how abysmally low the numbers remain, a decade into the 21st century. (In some cases, the figures are worse than before. In 2009 the percentage of women holding statewide elective office was 22.6. Ten years earlier it was 27.6.)
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May 9th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
16.8% of members of the U. S. Congress are women (2010).
This is among the lowest percentages in the Western world, if not the lowest. Our figure is about 25% and the Germans and Scandinavians are much higher. Also African-American women are much stronger in their community than white American women.
Generally, women in the US are worse off on those kind of leadership measures than in most Western countries.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:55 am
Here’s the list: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Canada is 48th with 22%. The US is equal 73rd.
May 23rd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
As I said in a comment to the response you left on Growing cities, Melanie, I’m totally disheartened by the status quo after catching a few of the recent Google IO presentations, which were wall-to-wall men. Sh*tty is the only word I can come up with for this.