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September 21, 2011

The Nightmare Boss and Feedback

"No one can make you feel small without your consent," Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Easier said than done, though. Many of us have been at the receiving end of bad feedback. And if we are honest, we may have on occasion given feedback that was less than graceful, let alone empowering. As a cookie break, here are three short videos of worst practices: how not do do it. Enjoy.

September 08, 2011

Cisco and Microsoft: Handmaidens of Government Surveillance?

Eighteen months after Google pulled its search engine out of China to avoid censorship, Microsoft's Bing still censors searches there. And now Cisco Systems and others are working on a government project in the city of Chongqing, for example, building what will be the biggest police surveillance system in the world. What is right, making concessions to do business in a fast-growing and lucrative market, or foregoing profits in the quest to "do no evil"?