links for 2006-10-31

• IBIS Literature Report

Today’s train of thought is…

links for 2006-10-30

• Gautam Ghosh – Management Consultant: People loss may not equal to knowledge loss

  An excellent point: when you hire staff these days, particularly knowledge workers and experts, you’re also taking their network on board. That has benefits and risks for management, who must act appropriately. Remember, passionate people talk to their peers.

• A question of misjudgement

  (tags: Singapore Thailand investment strategy)

• The Korea Times : Kids Become ‘Digital Natives’

  (tags: korea technology culture generation_gap)

• Used phones drive Third World wireless boom – Wireless World – MSNBC.com

  (tags: environment technology development globalization)

• Anecdote: Social network perspective of knowledge-retention strategies

  Who would you really miss, if they left your organisation? Techniques to identify high-value knowledge workers.

  (tags: knowledge_management HRM management)

links for 2006-10-29

• Yu Qiuyu on cross-cultural communication

  (tags: China globalization marketing culture)

• Great Bear begins winter hibernation – Space.com – MSNBC.com

links for 2006-10-28

• Buddhist Channel | China | Abbot: Shaolin Temple needs to keep up with times

  (tags: Buddhism Shaolin China management)

• Boris Johnson MP: Appointing a new Researcher

  British MP interviews for a new researcher, and muses on the difference in outlook between his (and my) generation and “the youth of today”. Many insights for managers in this.

  (tags: generation_gap genX genY)

links for 2006-10-27

• Trying to rid the world of marketing language is, well, a ‘challenging’ task – Comment – Times Online

• India wants the world to see it as it sees itself – Asia – Pacific – International Herald Tribune

  (tags: India globalization marketing)

• Chinese corruption inquiry expands to Beijing party leaders – Asia – Pacific – International Herald Tribune

  (tags: China economy corruption politics)

• Xinhua – Singapore-Guangdong trade booming

  (tags: Singapore China Guangdong economy trade)

• Xinhua – Microcredit may not be right for China

  (tags: China economy poverty microcredit)

• Microcredit, Macro Issues

  (tags: development microcredit economy)

• Seth’s Blog: The two things that kill marketing creativity

  (tags: business marketing creativity innovation)

• PINR – China’s Policy in the Gulf Region: From Neglect to Necessity

  (tags: China oil security strategy)

• tompeters! Mintzberg is crazy

  (tags: Tom_Peters management MBA b-school Mintzberg)

• The Rice-and-Noodles Mall

  (tags: China economy strategy marketing retail)

“The most abrupt change in the whole climate record”

Earlier this month, I linked to a report on climate change in the UK, which only talked about the effects of temperatures rising. I commented then that in fact, the complete opposite could happen: polar warming and melting ice caps could affect the Gulf Stream current, and actually lead to temperatures plummetting.

I can’t say that I’m happy to discover that not only is that a theoretical possibility, evidence is starting to appear that it’s already happening. This article in the Guardian today says that in 2004, “a part of the current, which is usually 60 times more powerful than the Amazon river, came to a temporary halt“.

Since the Gulf Stream keeps the UK up to 10 degrees C warmer than it ought to be, that’s scary. Very, very, scary.

Chinese music wiki

An interesting find: I don’t actually remember how I stumbled across this, but anyway…  Chaile is an English-language wiki covering the contemporary music scene in China. It’s naturally skewed towards Beijing and Shanghai, and the content is a bit dated, and rather light (it doesn’t even mention Lush under its Beijing Venues section), but it seems like a good idea. Hopefully, it will get some more support if more people know about it?