by Leroy Hurt | Nov 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Harvard Business Review as linked by Business Insider: First, according to our criteria, many organizations throughout the world are very badly managed. Well-run companies set stretch targets on productivity and other parameters, base the compensation and...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Boing Boing: Founded in 2009 by educational entrepreneur Shai Reshef, University of the People is the world’s first tuition-free completely online university, offering Associate and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science. Students...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
So I invited Mitch Gaspard, the University of Alabama baseball coach, to lunch with my department’s leadership so he could share some thoughts about how he goes about working with players and motivating their performance. One of the thoughts he shared about what...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Interesting vignettes about personal productivity: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. Daily Routines
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit: A new study finds that highly educated Americans were most likely to take on unmanageable debt in the pre-crisis years. What’s more, gross personal financial mismanagement occurred across the population and not just in the mortgage market and not just...