These are my links for May 28th 2009 through June 11th 2009:
- The dark side of Dubai – The Independent – Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging.
- The Atlantic Online | June 2006 | The Management Myth | Matthew Stewart – Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead
- BBC NEWS | Business | Irish Republic: Boom to bust – BBC radio look at the complete collapse of the Irish economy and how the Irish emigrant is back.
- Why Things Become Unpopular – "Why is everybody suddenly wearing those new sandals and listening to that new band? It's so trendy!" A recent study has investigated this sentiment in order to understand why some cultural products and styles die out faster than others. According to the results, the quicker a cultural item rockets to popularity, the quicker it dies. This pattern occurs because people believe that items that are adopted quickly will become fads, leading them to avoid these items, thus causing these items to die out.
- A List Apart: Articles: Burnout – "Web professionals are often expected to be “always on”—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an "always on" life can be debilitating."
- In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; – …it obeyed the law of decreasing returns. In the network economy, success is self-reinforcing; it obeys the law of increasing returns.
