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When a Sunnyvale tech company laid off the manager and most of his colleagues in its reliability testing group a year and a half ago, the manager said a few employees were spared — younger, foreign workers on H-1B visas. The laid-off manager was infuriated that as an American citizen, he wasn’t…
NASA project manager Jerry Madden, the Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, was a legend in his field. He began collecting and assembling a set of rules for project managers early in his career; after Jerry retired in 1995, others maintained…
Pink Elephant today announced it has become the first organisation to receive worldwide accreditation for a new integrated ITIL® certification course that will enable practitioners to effectively manage, organise and optimise the Support and Restore processes, and minimise the adverse effects of…
“If you do not assume responsibility for breaking the system in the way you want it broken and then integrating it to a better plateau, it will break by itself to a worse plateau. So inaction does not save you; it gives the power of your demise to outside forces.” Ichak Adizes, Managing Corporate…
Some major acquisitions activity, possibly presaging a trend towards consolidation, in the Indian offshore/outsourcing space. EDS has apparently just picked up a big chunk (in excess of 40%) of Mphasis: The EDS-Mphasis deal is part of an ongoing trend that has software and BPO firms shifting large…
A great question over at MetaTalk brings the BBSers out of the woodwork: “Were you a BBSer? Did you run a BBS?” The person asking the question has noted some similarities between BBS culture and blog culture, and I think that’s a very good observation. For those of you who weren’t around or weren’t…
The 2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” has just come out; if you’ve been thinking about adding a graduate degree to your resume, you’ll want to give this comprehensive ranking of the best programs in the United States at least a quick once-over. USNews.com: America’s Best Graduate…
A plan to boost the number of temporary visas is facing obstacles in the U.S. Congress, despite the plan’s popularity with technology companies and foreign workers. Supporters of H-1B visas–reserved for highly skilled guest workers–applauded a move Monday by a U.S. Senate committee to nearly double…
Is the layoff the great American wound? In Louis Uchitelle’s account, it seems a wound in triplicate. It hollows out companies so they can’t compete. It hollows out the country by removing middle-class jobs. It hollows out the middle-class employees who are laid off and then too often drop…