Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Cant Update Nvidia Vanta

Pace Incivile

For Italians today, like those of yesterday, it seems really impossible not to divide people between of right and people of left . We have moved from opposition to weapons of Civil War after the war, a nerve-wracking Peace uncivilized, in which respect for the rules and direction of the state are every day ridiculed.
Italians are "political" at least they are "sports". It is almost always limited to a share similar to a cheering stadium. As the children undertake to imitate Totti or Del Piero, that the gentlemen here Red, green or white just waiting to show off their political fervor, imitating the illustrious examples of their heroes in the Senate or in Montecitorio. Illustrious but often uncivil, as one who remembers screaming, spitting and shouting in the halls of Parliament, certainly thinks.
The race day to raise the tone is matter of daily squalor. On the one hand, we drown in an instrumental and emotional unjust rules of our democracy. The other takes advantage of any flutter to exasperate the tones, perhaps in the knowledge that doing so keeps up the only reason for the popular support it enjoys. The Italians are in the middle, as most of the helpless spectators a game where the players themselves do not allow arbitrators.
's why I think of it, coining a new term, the days as times of peace uncivilized. Two words that together form the corresponding Civil War, if you plays with words as you do when you turn over your socks. Bad time for our country. This climate of hate does not help any person of goodwill. It just goes to a class of people who lined up on either side, have no reason to be where they are, if not ordered to train troops in the service of power that certainly did not care about the fate of Italian. I struggle to find a significant number of good laws and reforms in recent years, without the benefit of Italy, at least in relation all'ingente amount of work that the Parliament has to play. Ricordatevene when the time comes to choose candidates in the forthcoming elections. Insist that the party cheer that, for once you are listening, even for candidates who can represent your instances. Do not just make you dupe with crusades against those on the right or left-wing ones. Think of yourself, your families and your youth. If you do not do, at least in the voting booth, who do you think it should be done?
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Glory Hole Long Island

Popolo di poeti e navigatori

A look at the latest Italian news might suggest that now everything is permitted. No limit is placed over the forms and ways in which we can express. This seems to apply both to the powerful to the weak. Lust, passions, needs and ambitions may go beyond any limits that common sense, good taste, or just any sense of civil liberty arise naturally to everyone. It seems very archaic to say, as did a few decades ago, that our freedom ends where the other begins.
is what we see, in a fairly random selection:

  • a man's home was partying at red lights, organized with the help of a implicated in corruption trials that provides young ladies complacent, in spite of all safety standards laid down by stocks:
  • a strange and unfortunate tendency for members of a certain importance of the Democratic Party to be associated with frequent visits to transsexuals;
  • the papers of a powerful man with other responsibilities in the State, in an unusually synchronous with some televisions, are blackmail and smear campaigns against those who dare attack their master;
  • ubiquitous presence on television, programs that encourage the most vulgar and sordid itching, morbid way in showing reconstructions of situations strongly diverted, or by suggesting that only the winning models case, superstition and luck, determine our destiny;
  • the factory workers who risks the closure, forgotten by the media and local politicians, realized too late, unable to move from right to wrong block highway;
  • people rage with the horn and insult those who, by driving a car, you can to slow down the pace, perhaps to park;
  • several "crazy" that driving scooters and motorcycles, forget to be parents, spouses or children of someone waiting for them at home and are enhanced in absurd and peridcolosissime gymkhanas between cars;
  • young people who go to school only to cultivate their ability to bullying, rude and bold showing in front of teachers and their peers;
  • parents who do not accept criticism that professors do the work of their children, to which all must be allowed, perhaps because it "breaks" less;
  • people you pass in front of the queues to the doctor, the supermarket or even on the highway.

by the powerful to the weak, we see more and more examples of sharp falls in style. We were a people friendly, true lover of the arts and professions more edifying. Italian was synonymous with "courtesy" and "hospitality", seasoned with an undeniable genius and joy that makes us just nice.
Something has taken over the soul of this people, which is too often an example of deceit, arrogance and rudeness. Good manners are not only given by one aspect nice, fragrant and seemingly gentle ways. Are the mirror of the soul really.

Few people know that sugar, poured on the wounds, make them heal. There are many people who every day instead of spreading salt on the wounds of Italy and Italians. Is for us to abandon this path of decline and become sugar.


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Stomach Pains Peeing A Lot

Scrap the MBA Entrepreneurs

by CaosManagement n.43

It 'time to abolish the Master in Business Administration?

For love of country do not speak Italian managers of schools, which are outside people who do not know that Napoleon lost at Waterloo or that Libya was a colony Italy, which often can not distinguish between it (the verb to have) and a (preposition), applauding thrilled if someone says that the crisis does not exist and is just a psychological fact, that seem to be made with cookie-cutter, his head shaved , with their arrogance, their dress blue, the tie of Marinelli and their latest fashion phone for use with a crash in the first class of the red arrow.

speaks instead of the important debate that is taking place internationally on the MBA, Masters in Business Administration.
E 'also led to a new term: "MBA clone" (Dan Herman). Many managers attend the same courses, studying the same books, read the same newspapers and the same journals, attend conferences and take up the same to the same conference. In this way, take the same attitude and towards the same vocabulary of business. MBA become the clone. Of course, not everyone becomes a clone and Dan Herman MBA offers a questionnaire to see if it has become and a series of suggestions for "declonizzarsi. Some suggestions are absolutely unacceptable, such as to abandon the long-term strategy, not to confuse objectives and strategy, while others should be discussed in more detail as to leave the market segmentation for contextual segmentation, or give up the vision. Henry Mintzberg criticizes the MBA. Here here part of a recent interview with CNN:

CNN: What should be the goal of the MBA?

MINTZBERG: Create the best managers create better organizations that create a better world.

CNN: The management can be taught?

MINTZBERG: No, you can improve the quality or characteristics of the manager, the manager can not create in the classroom ..... What you can do is teach management to someone who is not a manager, as you can not teach surgery to a surgeon who is not. .............. What I have against the MBA is that you come out of an MBA program for two years, never having did the manager, and I assume that you are ready to assume responsibility for managing. Not only presume, but it's the same school that assures you, and this is deeply wrong. ........ I consider the management, the management, such as arts, crafts and science. This is a practice that is based on art, craft and science and there is a lot of craft in the sense of experience that involves intuition, creativity, vision, and there is the use of science, technology and analysis . But MBA programs are so oriented primarily towards the analytical part that is outside what I call "Calculating managers" and I think they are causing problems everywhere .................... ............... In the schools of management is very important to the case study. They are based on the fact to read twenty pages of a company of which you probably have not heard about and the next day you go in the classroom to talk about it. So we are training people who think, give me twenty pages of the report and I give the strategy. ............... There is no experience, no one has ever met the client has never been in the factories, the products do not know, nobody knows anything. And they're all talking about what the company is required to do, because they have spent a couple hours the night before reading the case ....................

Ray Williams in an article for the Sounding Board, the Vancouver magazine Board of Trade, rileva che per la maggior parte i programmi delle scuole di business sono orientati alla teoria ed utilizzano gli strumenti tradizionali: case studies, lezioni, film e discussioni. Il problema, secondo Ray Williams, è che i docenti di queste scuole sono scelti non sulla base della loro esperienza di leader o manager, ma sulla base delle ricerche pubblicate.
Kelly Holland in un articolo sul New York Times rileva che le scuole di business sono troppo teoriche e con pochi contatti con il mondo reale, agli studenti si insegna come affrontare problemi complessi con soluzioni semplici e rapide, l’unico obiettivo è quello di massimizzare il valore delle azioni, senza nessun riferimento all’etica ed ai problem sociali.
Rakesh Khurana also think that business schools make managers whose sole aim is to increase shareholder value and, therefore, are merely agents of the property, with everything that comes from this idea.
In an article in the London Times, Philip Broughton is much more fierce and says that if Robespierre guillotined reborn and look for people from those who could start after his name the initials MBA: This category of bankers, financiers and consultants destroyers of value has done far more damage than any other category of persons. Broughton also points out that if we make a list of the most important entrepreneurs in recent history, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Michael Dell, Richard Branson, Lakshmi Mittal, we do not find a single MBA. But if we look at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers from HBOS, we find the fingerprints of many MBA.

Lynda Gratton expected, very optimistically, that students will bring about change in business schools. His opinion is that those who enroll in these schools are now facing an MBA to know, for sources outside academic circles, there are other business models, more egalitarian and that there are those she identifies as "social entrepreneurs ".

This note of optimism is based on the fact that the spread and easy access to information about companies is now a fait accompli in countries where there is transparency and where the media are indeed free from political constraints or even ownership. We hope that this can happen here too.