December 2011
14 posts
A Merry Christmas
To all those wonderful people who support us - without you RAFT wouldn’t be able to carry out all the work it does. So a huge thank you.
For those of you who don’t yet support RAFT - we hope you will consider doing so in 2012. We don’t get Government funding and all our research is funded by donations. If we don’t get donations, the research has to stop.
We want to...
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Running an Organisation: Bad Behaviours: Habit 1
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...
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Running an Organisations: Bad Behaviours: Habit 2
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...
Brain can get 'too full'
Researchers studying London cabbies who have acquire ‘the knowledge’ have found that cabbies suffer changes to their brains that can make it difficult to learn and absorb more like-knowledge, reports the Telegraph.
‘The knowledge’ is a two to four-year process in which perspective London cabbies must learn 25,000 streets in London, 20,000 landmarks, and 320 routes, showing...
Running an Organisation: Bad Behaviours: Habit 3
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...
Running an Organisation: Bad Behaviour: Habit 4
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...
Skin cancer claims burn employers
Australian businesses have paid almost A$40 million in compensation to victims of skin cancer in less than a decade - more than what has been spent on skin cancer education campaigns in Australia, reports the Melbourne Weekly Bayside.
Too many employers remain ignorant of the fact ultraviolet radiation was an occupational health and safety issue, said the Cancer Council, which just released the...
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Running an Organisation: Why should you encourage...
Thanks to guest blogger Daphne of Livewire, for her interesting thoughts on networking
Networking may be part of every company’s development department, however great or small, but is it encouraged across the board?
Are contacts brought in by the facilities assistant as important as those via the chairman of the board? I would say they are! After all, the company is being exposed to a wider...
Be bold and ask
Katherine Bomkamp had an idea, reports the New York Times. If heat was used to treat muscular pain, could it also be used to ease phantom limb pain in amputees? If it could, then a heating device could be installed in a prosthetic device, allowing the user to control the amount of heat applied to their stump.
The problem was, Katherine was a US high school student when she came up with this idea....
Running an Organisation: Bad Behaviours: Habit 5
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...
Running an Organisation: Bad Behaviours: Habit 6
I was reading in an old Forbes online issue, a blog by Martin Zwilling on the nine bad behaviours of struggling start founders. He reviewed the points made by Denny F Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, on the bad habits of managers who struggle.
Whilst reading the blog, I realised that these bad habits are true of everyone: whether mangers or not; whether in start-ups or established...