The Unspoken Items

Last night, I was working on the draft of a book on EEO management - identifying certain basics, and thinking about the proper order of the subjects - when my memory clicked in on some colorful incidents. Each one involved the sort of thing that is not usually talked about but which can powerfully influence the quality of the job and whether or not the person succeeds.

That is a category every incumbent specifically needs to pass on to successors: Things That Aren't Talked About That You Need to Know.

Totten: Life on the Edge

Put things in perspective. Read this brief post by Michael J. Totten about life in Israel and Lebanon and then watch the video for a nightclub in Beirut.

An Artist's Range

Art Contrarian finds that he has revised his opinion on whether Norman Rockwell could do glamour.

[I believe Rockwell could do anything.]

Entertainment Break: Give Them Up to The Almighty

Management lessons can be found everywhere. Jack Nicholson, playing a mob boss who knows how to meet with subordinates, discusses a team problem in a great scene from "The Departed."

Hold That Tongue

Employment attorney John Phillips has a great post on an Army staff officer in Afghanistan who got into trouble for making comments about bureaucracy and a certain slide system that is one of the great evils of our time.

Leadership Blogs

Wally Bock, who has one of the top leadership blogs in the world, points to a list of 30 leadership blogs.

Check it out.

Quote of the Day

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

- Thomas Sowell

"Of this year?"

Idea Anaconda has Conan O'Brien's announcement of his new show.

Screen Technology

I confess to rushing right past this video at Eclecticity on the future of screen technology.*

Big mistake. It's fascinating and, I suspect, shows a world that is not far off. You'll want to see it.

[*I was eager to see if he'd discovered any new Serbo-Croatian poets. The man is the Indiana Jones of miscellany.]

Will I Lose Any Text?

At Cultural Offering: Now I know how I look to our IT guy.