Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism. Schumpeter: The French way of work. EVERY year, Sophie de Menthon, a French entrepreneur, holds an event called J'aime ma boîte (I love my firm) in Paris. The idea is to counter the notion that the French don't like work. Employees are enticed to make lip dubs (a video of them lip-synching to music, if you need to ask), massage each other, vote for the nicest colleague, arrange for the accountant to swap jobs with the secretary and other stunts to celebrate their firm. The much-mocked campaign has not had much luck. In 2007 a national strike interrupted the festivities, and in 2009 a series of suicides at France Télécom spoilt the atmosphere. A truer reflection of work attitudes came this summer when French workers covered office windows with huge pictures made up of Post-it notes. Many outsiders conclude that French workers are simply lazy. In fact studies suggest that the problem with French employees is less that they are work-shy, than that they are poorly managed.
From the ranks There are important exceptions. The law and the web just don’t mix. Talk of government regulation of web entities has been all over the news lately, from the near daily privacy complaints to Google’s antitrust woes to questions about how the Fourth Amendment applies to email. While these are important discussions to have, almost every attempt to shoehorn current practices into existing legal frameworks suffers from a common problem: Yesterday’s laws are antiquated in a web-driven world that rarely sits still. Software development is always evolving and advancing, and business models and cultural norms evolve along with it.
Entirely new capabilities spring up regularly, and business models can change overnight, meaning a law written to address a specific concern can fast become obsolete or, perhaps worse, a hindrance to innovation. Three recent situations illustrate what I’m talking about. Netflix, Facebook and privacy I’ve discussed the issue of online privacy in numerous posts, and two considerations strike me as absolutely critical.
Comprendre le changement comme un processus de discussion. Notes Livre blanc sur les retraites, Paris, La Documentation française, Rapports officiels, mai 1991. Bruno Palier, « France : de la crise aux réformes de la sécurité sociale », Revue française de sociologie, 43 (2), avril-juin 2002, p. 243-275. Didier Renard, « Dire, faire, faire croire. Changement de vocabulaire et changements de politiques : la réforme des retraites en France », Lien social et politique, 41, 1999, p. 71-85. Paul Pierson, « Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects : Post-Industrial Welfare States Confront Permanent Austerity », Journal of European Public Politic, 5 (4), décembre 1998, p. 539-560.
Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld, « Réflexions sur la réforme des retraites », Droit social, 4, avril 2004, p. 396-407. Sur la problématique du changement, cf. Au sens de Peter A. Sur la nature des règles, cf. Nils Brunson et Johan Olsen décrivent ce mouvement dans un cas particulier : la re-production d’une institution. Cf. aussi Bruno Latour, « Et si on parlait de politique ? Accueil | BANLIEUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE. Political Sons Launch Ruck.us, A Social Engagement Platform Based On Issues, Not Parties.
In honor of President Obama’s LinkedIn town hall meeting today — and the impending campaign — we bring you a political startup. Before you gag, give it a chance; I think this is a political startup that might just get your vote. Launching today is Ruck.us: A social and political engagement platform that allows like-minded individuals to find each other, connect, and to take collective action based on issues, not political affiliations. On the surface, that doesn’t sound particularly earth-shattering. We’re pretty sure both Facebook and Twitter enable this kind of grouping — as does Fox News and MSNBC (and No Labels and Americans Elect).
But it does help that the Ruck.us co-founders both have politics in their blood: Ray Glendening is the son of former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening and Nathan Daschle is the son of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. But the idea itself is definitely worth testing. For more, visit Ruck.us at home here or check out the video below: Leaderless in Europe. Franck Riester : "La pub Hadopi, c'est du second degré" D'où viennent les noms des opérations militaires? - Vue d'un hélicoptère américain en Afghanistan, REUTERS/Nikola Solic - François Hollande a annoncé, vendredi 11 janvier 2013, que les forces armées françaises ont apporté «leur soutien aux unités maliennes» pour lutter contre des éléments terroristes. L’amiral Edouard Guillaud, chef d’état-major des armées, a déclaré que l’opération pour enrayer la progression des djihadistes venus du Nord a été baptisée «Serval», du nom d’un «petit félin du désert» qu'on trouve dans de nombreux pays d'Afrique.
D'où viennent les noms plus ou moins imagés et plus ou moins «romantiques» des opérations militaires? En France, le Centre de planification et de conduite des opérations (CPCO), qui dépend de l'Etat-major des armées, est en charge de décider des noms donnés aux opérations dans le cadre de leur planification et de leur conduite. Publicité Le CPCO s'assure même que le nom donné n'a aucune connotation négative dans le pays ou la région concernée avant de l'adopter. «Justice sans limites» Communication_politique. Woerth est-il un produit made in HEC (1/2) ? Terranova. Débats 2012 | suivez le débat des primaires du parti socialiste pour les Présidentielles 2012.