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Andrea on August 28th, 2009

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

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Andrea on April 13th, 2008

Struggling(?) my way to learn the XNA framework, I came across this book from Microsoft Press entitled “Learn Programming Now”. Rob Miles, the writer, is also an actual computer science university teacher in the UK. If you are a first timer or haven’t developed for quite a while this book is for you (and me). [...]

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[lang_en] It is easy to manage complexity by simply avoiding it. Think of something, split it in two opposite concepts and there you have it! I was thinking at some of the well-taught dichotomic concepts coming from business schools (and life in general) such as: good vs. evil known vs. unknown fuction vs. process science [...]

Continue reading about [lang_en]Managing by dichotomies[/lang_en][lang_it]Management dicotomico[/lang_it]