Free Business Book Summaries!
A Miami, Florida business called getAbstract summarizes business books, enabling subscribers to be the best-read, most expert players on the business scene today. Their mission is to provide executives and business leaders worldwide with the best in business knowledge. They deliver this knowledge in concise summaries (audio or PDF) of the latest, sharpest and most relevant business books.
The firm offers the largest online library of business book summaries. More than 4,000 of the latest and most relevant business books - each summarized into five written pages or a short mp3 audio file. Learn the key points of any book in just 10 minutes. From Finance to Management, Sales to Careers - you'll never miss a trend!
Many of the world's largest companies offer their employees full subscription access to the getAbstract Library (check with your company to see if your firm already subscribes). Clients include some of the most sophisticated and knowledge-driven firms in business today. The customer base spans the globe and includes such household names as Microsoft, Citigroup, DaimlerChrysler, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, Deutsche Post, UBS and Credit Suisse.
You might enjoy listening to two FREE summaries...
Friday, October 26, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
NASA Wants To Destroy Safety Data
If the government collected data that indicated that air safety was more risky than previously thought, would you expect it to destroy the data?
That's exactly what is happening at NASA!
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
Just last week, NASA ordered the contractor that conducted the survey to purge all related data from its computers. NASA directed its contractor Battelle Memorial Institute, along with subcontractors, on Thursday to return any project information and then purge it from their computers before October 30.
NASA said nothing it discovered in the survey warranted notifying the Federal Aviation Administration immediately.
In its space program, NASA has a deadly history of playing down safety issues. Investigators blamed the 1986 and 2003 shuttle disasters on poor decision making, budget cuts and improperly minimizing risks.
A senior NASA official, associate administrator Thomas S. Luedtke, said revealing the findings could damage the public's confidence in airlines and affect airline profits.
"If the airlines aren't safe I want to know about it," said Rep. Brad Miller, D-North Carolina, chairman of the House Science and Technology investigations and oversight subcommittee. "I would rather not feel a false sense of security because they don't tell us."
So... the reason the data is being destroyed is that it might "affect airline profits"?
Doesn't sound like a good reason to me!
If the government collected data that indicated that air safety was more risky than previously thought, would you expect it to destroy the data?
That's exactly what is happening at NASA!
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
Just last week, NASA ordered the contractor that conducted the survey to purge all related data from its computers. NASA directed its contractor Battelle Memorial Institute, along with subcontractors, on Thursday to return any project information and then purge it from their computers before October 30.
NASA said nothing it discovered in the survey warranted notifying the Federal Aviation Administration immediately.
In its space program, NASA has a deadly history of playing down safety issues. Investigators blamed the 1986 and 2003 shuttle disasters on poor decision making, budget cuts and improperly minimizing risks.
A senior NASA official, associate administrator Thomas S. Luedtke, said revealing the findings could damage the public's confidence in airlines and affect airline profits.
"If the airlines aren't safe I want to know about it," said Rep. Brad Miller, D-North Carolina, chairman of the House Science and Technology investigations and oversight subcommittee. "I would rather not feel a false sense of security because they don't tell us."
So... the reason the data is being destroyed is that it might "affect airline profits"?
Doesn't sound like a good reason to me!
Trying to attain a personal goal?
Why not try a new online tool?
Two Brains
With Two Brains, you and others can collaborate by sharing resources, comments, thoughts and ideas with one another. It combines social bookmarking and shared goals to support a community of learning. Once the network effect is achieved, you will experience a flow of learning resources that can deliver high quality content based specifically on achieving your goals. After all, we all know that two brains are better than one. Enjoy.
Why not try a new online tool?
Two Brains
What is Two Brains?
Two Brains is an application that approaches the learning process in a different way. The application is built around goals, because in the end that's what you truly care about.
Benefits of Two Brains
Two Brains was designed with simplicity in mind. Identify what you want to learn. Create a ''Learning Goal''. Use the power of the network to help you achieve your goal.With Two Brains, you and others can collaborate by sharing resources, comments, thoughts and ideas with one another. It combines social bookmarking and shared goals to support a community of learning. Once the network effect is achieved, you will experience a flow of learning resources that can deliver high quality content based specifically on achieving your goals. After all, we all know that two brains are better than one. Enjoy.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)