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Regardless of economic conditions, if you're laid-off, it's likely to feel personal and your emotions will probably fluctuate between uncomfortable and devastated. In a recent article for CBS, Katherine Cowley, a New York psychiatrist commented - “We like to deny that we are expendable. So when we are told ‘we have to let you go,’ it feels like an assault.”

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Successful companies fail because corporate inertia keeps them from planning for change. Corporate inertia can be broken down into strategic, structural and personal inertia. To maintain success during changing market conditions, business need to energize their strategies, structures and people, keeping them agile and prepared for change.

The CEO has to lead this charge. History has shown that CEOs who delegate programs designed to overcome inertia will fail at building agile businesses. And wh… Continue

Agile Development minimizes risks by developing software in short amounts of time - in iterations that typically lasts from 2 - 4 weeks. Each iteration passes through a full software development cycle and a release - without bugs - available at the end of each iteration.

Agile Software Development is a conceptual framework for software development that promotes development iterations, open collaboration, and adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project.

There are many agile developmen… Continue

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." -Peter Drucker. He wa also the first to point out: "The first question in increasing productivity in knowledge and service work has to be: What is the task? What do we try to accomplish? WHY do it at all?"

It's important that every knowledge base is structured around these questions. If not, you could be wasting your time, and worse you may actually be doing harm...… Continue