opinion
The employer is the last actor with room to move, and Belgium is tying its hands
Belgium asks more of its workers than any other rich country, and it is promising them less in return. So who steps in?
economy
Stream of Consciousness
Government's role as a stakeholder to administrations and agencies
As with some of the articles published in the past week, I've rewritten an article I wrote in 2009. I am trying to integrate all articles from the past into …
Stream of Consciousness
How Valve gets the new economy: treat your employees as the adults they can be
In a blog post about how Valve operations are significantly different from other environments he had worked for, Michael Abrash made some very astute …
Stream of Consciousness
The opposite of a bad system - an internal auditor's perspective
The opposite of a bad system I recently read this statement, and I can't remember where I read it. It goes "The opposite of a bad system isn't chaos. It's a …