The Disastrous Impact of IT Outsourcing to the Motivation of Software Developers - Software Engineering Candies
IT Outsourcing or the transfer of business functions to an external service provider is a common practice in almost all large companies and a standard tool in top management consulting. Sometimes, it is seen as the only way to solve current problems in a company. There are a lot of good and sometimes bad reasons to do outsourcing of IT and/or software development. Main drivers are cost reduction, over aging of staff and missing qualification. But, just the discussion and/or rumors about a possible outsourcing has bad effects. The impact to the motivation, decisions and daily work of software developers and middle management is in most of the cases disastrous. Gedankenexperiment One problem is, that the higher management can't see the direct impact this de-motivation and the fears of the employees. Maybe you know that I have three children, so imagine that I drive home after a long day of work, sit down at dinner table and say: Case #1 Case #2 Conclusion Change History Google+ Comments
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The Gospel According to 'Me'
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. The booming self-help industry, not to mention the cash cow of New Age spirituality, has one message: be authentic! Charming as American optimism may be, its 21st-century incarnation as the search for authenticity deserves pause. The power of this new version of the American dream can be felt through the stridency of its imperatives: Live fully! Realize yourself! Be connected! Guilt and alienation must be eliminated, most notably through yoga practice after a long day of mind-numbing work. In the gospel of authenticity, well-being has become the primary goal of human life. Tucker Nichols This is the phenomenon that one might call, with an appreciative nod to Nietzsche, passive nihilism. At the heart of the ethic of authenticity is a profound selfishness and callous disregard of others. With the workplace dominated by the maxim of personal authenticity — Be different!
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The Core of 'Mind and Cosmos'
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. This is a brief statement of positions defended more fully in my book “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” which was published by Oxford University Press last year. Since then the book has attracted a good deal of critical attention, which is not surprising, given the entrenchment of the world view that it attacks. It seemed useful to offer a short summary of the central argument. The scientific revolution of the 17th century, which has given rise to such extraordinary progress in the understanding of nature, depended on a crucial limiting step at the start: It depended on subtracting from the physical world as an object of study everything mental – consciousness, meaning, intention or purpose. However, I believe this possibility is ruled out by the conditions that have defined the physical sciences from the beginning.
Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: the Chosen Path of the 'Chosen Few'
In an encore post, Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein explain that the early Jewish emphasis on literacy set Jews up for economic success. Paul Solman: Of the three most popular posts in the six-year history of the Making Sen$e Business Desk, two seem unsurprising, at least in retrospect: Charles Murray’s “Do You Live in a Bubble Quiz” to test how in or out of touch you are with mainstream white American culture and “Ask Larry” Kotlikoff’s original retirement post: “34 Social Security Secrets You Need to Know Now”. But the popularity of the third-ranked post, of the more than a thousand originals we’ve run on this page since 2007, was as remarkable as it was gratifying: a 3000-word essay by two eminent economic historians who teach in Italy and Israel respectively summarizing their explanation of Jewish economic success, a thesis more than a decade in the making that has become the book “The Chosen Few.” Why did you choose the title “The Chosen Few”? The answer is: no.
The Hurdles to Success for the Affordable Care Act
Eric Gay/Associated PressA volunteer counselor in Texas used a chart this month to explain health insurance options. Phillip Swagel is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and was assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department from 2006 to 2009. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has had a difficult launching, but the more serious challenges for the law relate not to glitch-filled Web sites but rather to its possible long-term effects on the United States economy. The law is not likely to last if it imposes a severe drag on growth and job creation, or involves large costs obscured by the legislative gimmicks used to shape the scoring of the bill by the Congressional Budget Office. Along with philosophical reservations about expanding the role of the government in American society, these concerns about the negative economic and fiscal impact of the Affordable Care Act drive much of the opposition to it.
Waking the Sleeping Giant
Apr 08 Tuesday Community Articles Waking the Sleeping Giant 14 Comments April 8, 2014 – 12:51 am | Permalink | Mabinti Dennis, Shastri Charlene Leung, Acharya Arawana Hayashi, Senandoah Gale, Joy Mickle, Joanne Martin Braun, youth participant A Report on the visit of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche to Shambhala Chicago by Shastri Charlene Leung Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche led two pivotal programs following Shambhala Chicago’s new West Loop Center opening. Shambhala and the Peace HubJoining Inner and Outer Peace occurred on Saturday, March 22nd. Difficult Questions for The Practice of Radiating Out Joining Inner and Outer Peace Then on Sunday and Monday, March 23-24, 140 Shambhala leaders gathered for The Practice of Radiating Out: A Social Transformation and Leadership Training, to hear the Sakyong share his wisdom and explore difficult questions we must face as we go beyond old views of what a Shambhala Center might be. The Sakyong didn’t claim to have all the answers. Joining Inner and outer Peace
